A Season of Elections

In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...

Life of Harper: Saskatchewan, Bees, and Weed

Each week, Kyle Muzyka sifts through what our PM has been up to in this column, The Radical Adventures of Stephen Harper, for your personal enjoyment. (You can see his archived reviews of 24/SEVEN here.) &nb...

Natural Disaster Photo-Ops: Harper in Manitoba

Political photo-ops in disaster situations are old hat, but they’re really only fun when both sides are given equal opportunity to pose. Such was not the case for Mulcair in Manitoba. Open government, transp...

Tories Block Mulcair’s Manitoba Flood Tour

Sometimes the Harper government likes to flex their veto powers just 'cause. Last night, in a stunning move of cunning prissiness, Tory Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, rejected Thomas Mulcair's request to vi...

Brad Wall: It’s Time for Free Trade in Canada

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), set out to make trade in North America duty-free, yet that somehow never applied to trade between Canadian provinces, a scenario that western provincial leaders ...

Joe Oliver’s Securities Regulation Announcement

  At a super fancy press conference this morning, federal finance minister Joe Oliver looked like he was going to make a super fancy announcement. Yesterday a bunch of journalists from the parliamentary...

Could Canada Annex Turks And Caicos? Four Easy Steps

This week has brought a tropical sort of flair to the world of Canadian politics, a much-needed break from the boring norm of recent days. Everyone is talking about annexing Turks and Caicos, a move haters see ...