Hon. Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta, Edmonton Dear Premier Klein, During and since the recent federal election, we have been among a large number of Albertans discussing the future of our province. We were not dismayed by the outcome of…

Let’s start with a surprising fact: Alberta is Canada’s socialist paradise. I compared per capita spending on government programs across Canada a few years back and found that Alberta was spending 40 percent more than Ontario and one-third more than British Columbia for…

So you’re a politician or a political staffer and thinking of switching parties. It doesn’t have to end in total disaster. Here’s a handy scoring system to guide your deliberations.

The central argument of George Will’s book Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does1 is that governments by their very nature affect not only the external behaviour but also the “inner life” of citizens. To put it another way, government cannot…

A number of the Canadian commentariat have worked themselves into a lather saying that of the many bad things Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is, conservative isn’t among them. Or for some, of the many good things the Conservative government isn’t, conservative is…