News
Vancouver renters picket a building. Image: contributed photo
A people's mandate letter to the B.C. NDP's next housing minister
Mazdak Gharibnavaz | During the last three and a half years, the B.C. NDP had the opportunity to show leadership on the bold, systemic changes that renters needed. Instead, the opposite has happened.
Blog
BC NDP Leader John Horgan flanked by candidate Bowinn Ma on campaign trail on September 29, 2020. Image: John Horgan/Twitter
Why some environmentalists are turning off British Columbia's NDP government
Robert Hackett | Despite the promises made while in opposition, and some positive steps, the Horgan government's environmental policy seems to be: pick low-hanging fruit, but don't offend corporate carbon capital.
Blog
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro gives a press conference on October 8, 2020. Image: Tyler Shandro/Screenshot of Twitter video
Alberta government's claimed savings from health-care cuts don't add up
David J. Climenhaga | The fiscal benefit of the cuts will be negligible, if not negative.
Blog
Premier John Horgan announces a snap election on September 21, 2020. Image: John Horgan/Twitter
Riding high in the polls, B.C.'s NDP premier calls a snap election
David J. Climenhaga | The snap election call has particularly upset the provincial Greens and right-wing B.C. Liberals.
News
B.C. Premier John Horgan visits an LNG site in northern B.C. in August 2019. Image: Province of British Columbia/Flickr
Why has B.C. Premier John Horgan bought the LNG pipe dream?
Robert Hackett | Today's B.C. NDP is a locked-down creature. There's not been much chance for internal debate on LNG policy, even within the caucus.
News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in the House about the rail blockades. Image: Justin Trudeau/Twitter
The politics of the Wet'suwet'en crisis are thorny and dangerous
Karl Nerenberg | For some federal politicians, the crisis engendered by the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' refusal to allow a natural gas pipeline through their territory is also an opportunity.
Blog
British Columbia Premier John Horgan speaks to media in the rose garden of the Legislature Building in Victoria. Photo: Province of British Columbia/Flickr
B.C. premier sounds like the grown-up in the room as he responds to Jason Kenney's 'turn-off-the-taps' law
David J. Climenhaga | There may be an argument for Canadian refineries to buy "ethical" Alberta oil, but giving Alberta governments the opportunity to turn the taps on and off to achieve policy goals sure undercuts it.
Blog
Rachel Notley. Photo: Premier of Alberta/Flickr
Eleven days from the brink, Rachel Notley's dice roll brings back memories of Mulroney and Meech
David J. Climenhaga | Alberta's premier is more disciplined than the old Irish-Canadian baritone from Baie-Comeau. The words "roll the dice" will never pass her lips. Dice are rolling just the same.
Blog
Flooding in B.C. won't help Alberta's case for Kinder Morgan
David J. Climenhaga | The location of rising water renders ineffective the tactics of friends of fossil fuel apologists, who would prefer the public doesn’t ponder the links between bitumen extraction and climate change.
Blog
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).
Dispatches from the front lines of Alberta politics: Jason Kenney reveals his nasty streak, again
David J. Climenhaga | Why are so many old Tories going to pot? Is Canadian democracy is simply too important to be left in the hands of voters? The UCP caucus gets its exercise! Derek Fildebrandt gets something right!
Blog
Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McQuaig-Boyd looks on as Premier Rachel Notley speaks about Bill 12 yesterday (Photo: Government of Alberta/Flickr).
A bill to squeeze B.C. introduced in Alberta Legislature -- but can it pass constitutional muster?
David J. Climenhaga | Overwrought anyone? Rachel Notley threatens to punish British Columbians. UCP, after screaming for something like this, ducks and covers. Send in the army, demands former energy minister.
Blog
The claim that Canada's facing a constitutional crisis is just politics
David J. Climenhaga | The current dispute between Alberta, B.C., and Ottawa over the Trans Mountain pipeline is not a constitutional crisis, but it could turn into one.