Oil pipeline politics in Canada is, in the short term, muted so that Team Canada can project national unity amid the trade dispute with the U.S. On August 22, the U.S. imposed new 50 percent tariffs on about $28 billion, or 5 percent, of Canadian exports. Since the trade war began in February 2025 Alberta…
My welcome to Canada occurred in Alberta in 1969. Edmonton is still “home” in my heart. Through work as a policy analyst of Western Canadian issues in the 1990s, including through the Quebec referendum, I gained an appreciation of the yin-yang tensions between Alberta and Quebec that make Canada a difficult country to govern. At…
In my youth I cut my political teeth on the Watergate scandal, and this, along with the Turkish invasion of my father’s native island of Cyprus, moved me to study politics. Like many Americans at the time, I was incensed that a sitting president, sworn to uphold the constitution, would abuse his office to gain…
Online sports gambling is the new “cigarette” problem in Canada. Sports gambling is promoted as entertainment, while gambling addiction is fast becoming a major public health issue. Seductive, aggressive advertising makes gambling attractive and socially acceptable, while the well-known high risk of addiction is not acknowledged. Algorithms hook users into addictive gambling behaviour that affects…
For a long time I congratulated myself on not having any enemies. I can reluctantly accept that not everyone positively likes me, but I thought that at least I didn’t have any real enemies; there was no one I would go out of my way to hurt or who would do the same to me….
Stewardship has been a useful concept to promote greater care for creation, but now the word itself may be more of a barrier than a help for the current debate about pipelines and energy policy in Canada. In the 1970s and 80s, the concept of responsible stewardship was helpful to draw attention to harmful environmental…
The cultural and language divide in Canada has resulted in two entirely different definitions of state neutrality. In April, Quebec passed Bill 9, legislation that expands on existing restrictions on religious symbols, prayer rooms and religion-specific foods in government-subsidized workplaces like daycares and post-secondary institutions. The stated goal of Bill 9 is to ensure state…
The federal government announced in mid-April that it was going to suspend its excise tax on gas, diesel and aviation fuel. This is meant to address the problem of affordability in the light of increasing fuel costs resulting from the U.S.’s war with Iran. But the problem is that fuel is scarce, which is why…
A few years ago, Christian nationalism was not well known, but now headlines regularly remind us of its centrality to the MAGA agenda. Christian nationalism insists that Christian precepts ought to be law and enforced by the state. Advocates believe that the Founding Fathers intended to establish the United States as a democracy whose ultimate…
“Look up – look waaaaay up.” That is how The Friendly Giant invited children to expand their horizons through the magic of puppets on TV. In a similar way, Indigenous brothers and sisters remind us to consider seven generations ahead and seven generations backward to broaden our perspective on specific decisions. Being mindful of wider…
The proposed new law to combat hatred, Bill C-9, is creating animosity instead of bringing together various groups who could help to address the increase in antisemitism that led to its introduction. Bill C-9, with amendments, has now received a third reading in the House of Commons, by a vote of 186 Yeas and 137…
Even before the bombs started falling on Tehran, many observers and pundits were saying that going to war with Iran (particularly under the present circumstances) would have disastrous consequences. Those people are almost certainly correct. From civilian deaths to the entrenchment (rather than replacement) of a hard-line regime in Iran and from global energy prices…
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