Longtime Conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool says he will no longer tolerate “casual Trumpism” in his personal or political life, and wants to see it stamped out of Canadian politics. “In the past, some people said: ‘Oh, isn’t what Trump’s doing good’— and…

I’ve been firm but patient and tolerant of the populist conservatives @martha79453 and @henry83795 Trumpers in my life.  No longer.  My patience has run out. I won’t tolerate casual Trumpism in my personal or political cohort anymore. You are wrong, I am right,…

The headlines following the newest federal government climate plan were all about the carbon tax rising $15 per tonne per year starting in 2023 and reaching $170 per tonne by 2030. This plan was widely praised as bold and ambitious.

The populists are the problem. Back in the 1990s the then-most populist premier in Canada would regularly invoke “Martha and Henry” as “severely normal Albertans” when justifying policy choices. Ralph Klein kept his finger firmly on the pulse of these…

The current crisis has had an outsized impact on women with young children. While men with young children have largely recovered their hours of work since the beginning of the pandemic, women with young children have not.