Ken Boessenkool

October 14th 2021 - Archive - The Hub

Turn the Senate back into Canada’s house of memory

Ken Boessenkool | October 14, 2021 Our senators should be a brake on radical changes I don’t recall ever ordering and reading a book by an academic in order to write a column, but I did for this one, and…

October 12th 2021 - Alberta - The Line

O’Toole can risk adopting a carbon tax … in fact, he has to

If the Conservatives are going to win, they need to “hunt where the ducks are” and add voters who didn’t support them last time By: Ken Boessenkool The purpose of a political party is to win elections. It took me…

September 22nd 2021 - Archive - CBC

For Justin Trudeau, things will almost certainly get worse

This column is an opinion from Ken Boessenkool. He was a senior campaign adviser to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and has worked or volunteered for Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, Jim Dinning, Ric McIver, and Christy Clark. He is not…

September 15th 2021 - Archive - The Hub

Neither of the big two parties found the middle ground on child care

Welcome to The Hub’s Federal Election 2021 Policy Pulse, where we’ll be tracking all the policy announcements from the major parties, with instant analysis from our crew of experts. With the election scheduled for Sept. 20, we’ll be monitoring 36…

September 1st 2021 - Alberta - The Line

For Trudeau, is this a repeat of 2004? Or of 2006?

Ken Boessenkool: For Trudeau, is this a repeat of 2004? Or of 2006? O’Toole has a much more impressive campaign team than Harper, circa 2004. But the Liberal counterattack is coming. Aging political warriors see everything through the lens of…