Sometimes, I wonder what the next generation might say about our present political leadership. They would note that in some ways the economies of Ontario, Alberta and BC aren’t that different from each other because they are all exporting economies. The difference, of course, lies in what they export. While, the percentages are different, Ontario […]

Martin Luther King, Jr once said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. Increasingly, though, I have come to disagree with this notion, as I educated myself. In reading and learning more on the histories of the world, it is obvious to see that it is the actions of […]

I have recently heard the phrase the “Politics of Thoughtfulness” and I have fallen in love with it. Since I was nineteen, my political compass has been driven by an emotion and the phrase “Politics of Thoughtfulness” describes it to a “T”. It is why I joined the Liberal Party of Canada and why, after […]

Over the last number of months, many of us – Provincial Liberals in Alberta – have been thinking about our leadership race. However, in all that time, one question has not been asked: who can win 32 seats in Alberta? In 1993, Laurence Decore did that. He brought us to our best result in recent […]

“Well now the Liberals are back, with a new, more attack-proof House Leader, Bardish Chagger, and a new attempt to rewrite House rules in the interest of “efficiency.” Officially it’s just a “discussion paper,” but if so it’s one the government seems peculiarly unwilling to discuss or even explain. Once again there are limits proposed […]

In May of 2008, the Tackling Violent Crime Act came into force. It was a centre piece of action for the Government of Stephen Harper. As CBC.ca noted in its piece “Canada’s age of consent raised by 2 years”, it raised the “the legal age of sexual consent in Canada to 16 from 14, the first time […]