Avi Lewis has decisively won the leadership of Canada’s New Democratic Party, so the Greek chorus of doomsaying commentators predicting the bleakest of bleak futures for the party will be…
Despite getting a much-ballyhooed $7-million in start-up costs from the Alberta Government in 2023, a year later Cenovus Energy Inc. pulled the plug on its study of the potential for…
The final recommendations of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission released yesterday are probably about the best that could be expected given the ridiculous limitation that only two additional seats could be…
With the deadline for the Alberta-Canada memorandum of understanding on pipelines fast approaching – on April Fool’s Day a week from today – a newly formed coalition of First Nations,…
Fairness requires that I inform readers that Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government has now come up with official talking points about that controversial golden puddy tat, said to have been…
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) is holding hearings in the matter English Montreal School Board, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al. Before you yawn and walk…
This is the third in a series of Daveberta Podcast episodes I’m calling Daveberta In Session. In these short episodes available to paid subscribers, I’ll sharing a few key things…
As was famously said by the renowned expert on domestic safety and social order, Tweety Bird: “I tawt I taw a puddy tat!” And this is not just any puddy…
When Premier Danielle Smith revealed Wednesday during Question Period in the Alberta Legislature that she is seeking national security clearance from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, she put Canada’s spy…
Monday’s report of the Alberta Government’s so-called Property Tax Accountability Strategy Working Group had lots of big ideas about how to recover unpaid taxes “from companies that are still operating…
Tout le monde MAGA Alberta, apparently anxious to quit Canada as quickly as possible and maybe even join the gong show south of the 49th Parallel, is all of a…
Challenging Danielle Smith at the Legislature to meeting King Charles III in London. It was a big week. This is the second in a series of Daveberta Podcast episodes I’m…
Critics say the United Conservative Government’s plan to fund private-school construction projects to the tune of $90 million over three years makes no sense. Alas, the scheme announced by Education…
Mark Carney was sworn in as prime minister of Canada a year ago today, and surely even his opponents must admit he’s enjoyed considerable success in his first year on…
Like their Conservative counterparts who have already felt the Carney burn three times, federal New Democrats will be none too happy about the not-completely-unexpected news late yesterday that Nunavut MP…
Online voting started yesterday in the NDP leadership contest, which from the start has appeared to be a two-horse race between Avi Lewis and Heather McPherson. The auguries suggest Mr.…
The Daveberta Podcast is back In SessionYou’ve probably noticed I haven’t recorded an episode of the Daveberta Podcast in a while — so if you were missing listening to it,…
Is the Alberta Prosperity Project having trouble finding enough Albertans willing to sign its Citizen Initiative Act petition to gets its separation referendum on the ballot next fall? One has…
Prime Minister Mark Carney made “a terrible mistake” with his immediate full-throated support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, Canadian historian and security-intelligence expert Wesley Wark…
Surely nobody expected Finance Minister Nate Horner to stand up in the Alberta Legislature yesterday and table an NDP budget. But that’s pretty much what he did. In the leadup…
