Trudeau's carbon scheme targets Alberta
What does Justin Trudeau really think about Alberta and the oilsands and the people who work there?
Ezra Levant
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Top court ruling a slippery slope
On Friday the Supreme Court decided unanimously to legalize assisted suicide. That’s a euphemism, of course. Canadian doctors won’t be killing themselves. They’ll be killing their patients.
Harper unafraid to show fear
Webster’s defines “secret police” as “a police organization operating for the most part in secrecy and especially for the political purposes of its government often with terroristic methods." As in, the Soviet KGB or the East German Stasi.
Ruling protects religious freedom
Last week the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia declared that province’s ban on Trinity Western University law school students to be illegal.
Greek vote beginning of EU's end?
Greece has voted for a new government, led by the socialist Syriza party. They won on a campaign vow not to accept economic cutbacks demanded by the European Union, in return for a promised $336-billion bailout.
Kerry’s grotesque love letter
When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, the U.S. sent no senior dignitaries to her funeral. Next to Winston Churchill, Thatcher was the most consequential prime minister the U.K. had in a century, and she was an indispensable ally to the U.S., in the Cold War and the first Gulf War too. But the only representative from Barack Obama’s administration wa
Picture says a thousand words
At the Miss Universe competition in Miami, Miss Israel snapped a selfie with a few other contestants – from right to left: Miss Japan, Miss Slovenia and Miss Lebanon.
A friend? Mais non!
Last week’s terrorist attacks were France’s equivalent of 9/11. Except that after America’s 9/11, there was no million-person solidarity march in the streets of New York. There was in Paris last Sunday, and more than 40 world leaders attended. Canada sent a cabinet minister.
Tepid war effort against Islamic State
Vancouver Island is enormous, more than 12,000 square miles with 750,000 citizens.
Not all rapes reported equally
Rape was the most under-reported news story of 2014. Not misreported rape -- cases that were splashed over the media but on investigation didn't turn out the way they were at first presented.
Making sense of Wildrose defections
There are many strange things about Danielle Smith quitting her post as leader of the opposition in Alberta, defecting to the governing Progressive Conservatives, and effectively dissolving the province’s first real opposition party in a generation.
It was an act of jihad
On Monday, a Muslim terrorist entered a restaurant in downtown Sydney, Australia, and took 17 customers and staff hostage.
Report reveals politics, not torture
Christmas came early for liberals last week. A report from the U.S. Senate confessed that the CIA engaged in torture, that it did so secretly and without government approval, and the torture didn’t actually yield any useful intelligence information.
This should be fracking good news!
Everyone is so excited about the global warming conference in Lima, Peru!
From Russia with love
For years the liberal New York Times has been a rabid opponent of fracking, hyping every scary and outlandish rumour, and even denying fracking’s economic success.
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A tragedy that doesn't cry for an inquiry
A public inquiry is a useful tool when there are big public questions to be answered that need the power of a judge - the power to subpoena recalcitrant witnesses, the power to cross-examine witnesses under oath, the power to challenge a branch of government.
Nanaimo council apologizes -- sort of
In Tuesday’s column, I wrote about the anti-Christian motion passed by the city council of Nanaimo, B.C.
Backyard flamethrowers and other fracking myths
You’ve probably seen it on the Internet or the TV news, a video of a Texas man lighting his garden hose on fire.
The world according to Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau doesn’t talk much about foreign policy, which is wise. But occasionally he can’t avoid it.
Liberal senators may be kicked out, but they're not staying out
Why didn’t the 32 senators kicked out of the Liberal Party caucus by Justin Trudeau stay kicked out?
Justin Trudeau: My fair Liberal
Justin Trudeau has been an MP for five years, and leader of his party for five months. So last week, at a press scrum in Prince Edward Island, reporters asked him why he hasn’t released a set of policies yet.
When poll’s unspun, it looks like Romney’s won
If Mitt Romney wins the election in Ohio, that state’s 18 electoral votes will probably clinch the election for him.
Mum’s the word: Liberal, lefty lawbreaking goes unreported
The largest case of illegal elections financing in Canadian history was revealed this week — $344,000 illegally funnelled to the NDP by big Canadian labour unions.
Exclusive book excerpt: Sweetheart deal
In a revealing new book, The Enemy Within, the Sun's Ezra Levant brings Omar Khadr's story back into the public eye. Having completed his U.S. sentence in October 2011, Omar Khadr could return to Canada at any time. He may well be released, thanks to a lenient system that will likely credit him for the time he has served awaiting trial in Guantanam
Whitewashing Omar Khadr
In a revealing new book, The Enemy Within, the Sun's Ezra Levant brings Omar Khadr's story back into the public eye.
Mental defect ‘joke’ a real knee-slapper
A few days ago Pat Martin, the MP from Winnipeg Centre, came unglued. He was writing on Twitter and he just went nuts.
Arrival of Mohawks takes Occupy up a notch
The Occupy Toronto protest has been pretty empty these past weeks — there are a lot of tents up, but they’re empty. They’re like flamingo lawn ornaments, or political lawn signs. They’re for show.
This ain't no party
Canada’s population is booming — 34.5 million people, according to Statistics Canada. But that growth isn’t evenly distributed.
CRTC’s a dinosaur
A group of Canadian TV companies has banded together to ask the CRTC to regulate the Internet, and crack down on a U.S. based website called Netflix.