THE FIFTH COLUMN: Does Canada Need a Head of State

        From Twitter        Adrian Harewood        @CBCAdrianH        23 Jan        Why in 2021 is a Canadian Prime Minister, the leader of a #G7 nation, still reporting to a #Queen who                doesn’t live in his country and has never lived in his country? #JuliePayette #JustinTrudeau

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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: What comes after the Supreme Court ruling on Royal Succession?

Badge of the Supreme Court of Canada Last Thursday the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal on the 2013Succession to the Throne Act. The decision upholds the act as being constitutional. Without getting too far into the legal arguments the point of contention was whether changes to royal succession require an act of

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Alberta Politics: Stephen Harper and Preston Manning, joined at the hip by history and not particularly liking it, make changes

On Wednesday, former prime minister Stephen Harper abruptly quit the Conservative Party of Canada’s fund-raising board, supposedly to give himself time to prevent Jean Charest from becoming leader of Canada’s Conservatives or prime minister of Canada. Yesterday, we learned that Preston Manning would quit his eponymous market-fundamentalist call centre in

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Alberta Politics: The UCP health platform: mostly spin, some two-tier medicine, and scraps of red meat for the base

Jason Kenney’s health care policy announcement yesterday was a typical conservative political speech – a mish-mash of anodyne sentiment, misleading spin, market-fundamentalist nostrums, scraps of red meat for the base, cheap shots at the federal government, terrible ideas he’ll implement if he gets the chance, and even a couple of

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Alberta Politics: Supreme Court says bankrupt corporations’ assets must pay for environmental cleanup first, pay off debtors later

CALGARY Stand by for a veritable tempest of wailing about “activist judges” from banking, oil industry and conservative quarters, now that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled bankrupt fossil fuel companies can’t use federal bankruptcy law to walk away from their environmental responsibilities as set out in provincial laws.

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