Politics and its Discontents: Vox Populi

While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to power of Doug Ford in Ontario, others are not so easily diverted, as these letter-writers demonstrate: As an atmospheric physicist

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Politics and its Discontents: Nathan Cullen’s Peerless Takedown Of The Hapless Justin Trudeau

Enjoy (or not, depending upon your political/philosophical/environmental orientations): Meanwhile, Star letter-writers offer some much-needed reality checks about Trudeau’s betrayal: Your editorial highlights the political risks in the Justin Trudeau government’s decision to buy the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but there is also a major economic risk involved. If the government had

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Northern Reflections: They Got Snookered

For years to come, the Liberal government’s purchase of Kinder-Morgan will be used in business schools to illustrate deeply flawed decision making. What the Liberals did yesterday was simply bad business. Andrew Nikiforuk writes: Let’s parse the fantastic numbers, because they will affect all of us. The $4.5-billion purchase price

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