Category: Politics

At 9 a.m. on Monday, August 8, FBI agents in unmarked cars and clothing executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence and private club of former president Donald Trump. The press had not been alerted, and there was no news coverage. But hours after the agents left with about a dozen boxes said to […]

As much as one hates to agree with Jason Kenney, the man’s not wrong to call Danielle Smith’s “Sovereignty Act” proposal in her frontrunning campaign to lead the United Conservative Party “just nuts.” Danielle Smith, at right, the frontrunner in the race to replace Mr. Kenney. Beside her is Service Alberta Minister Nate Glubish, who […]

President Joe Biden has no regrets about withdrawing American combat troops from Afghanistan. And he used the drone strike that killed longtime al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul as the latest evidence affirming the wisdom of his decision. “After 20 years of war, the United States no longer needed thousands of boots on the […]

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Labour’s leader will announce he would keep the energy bills price cap at its current level of £1,971 per year for six months, until the end of March 2023, in a pledge due on Monday

As what has come to be known as the Essaygate Scandal unfolded, no one in Alberta seems to have thought to demand the resignation of Ron Orr, minister of culture and status of women in the United Conservative Party Government. Associate Status of Women Minister Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk (Photo: Fort Saskatchewan Today). Why?  Mr. Orr is […]

The Inflation Reduction Act includes about $375 billion over 10 years to encourage industry and consumers to shift from carbon-emitting to cleaner forms of energy.

For the Alberta Liberal Party, no news is probably bad news.  Yesterday afternoon at 5 p.m. nominations closed for the party that not long ago could be seriously called Alberta’s government in waiting. David Khan, left, and David Swann, the Alberta Liberals’ last two leaders (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). As far as anyone could tell […]

“What a night!” Elizabeth Warren said. It was past 3 a.m. on Iowa Caucus Night and we were barreling through the air from DesMoines to Manchester. At the back of the plane, the press corps was exhausted, contorted into resting positions in our seats but too scared to fall asleep for fear that the candidate […]

Alberta Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides seems to have dropped his threat to cut off some or all of Athabasca University’s $41.2 million annual operating funds if the distance-learning institution fails to come up with a plan by the end of September to move 500 employees to the town of Athabasca, its nominal home base. […]