The good, the bad and the opportunity in the federal child care plan Provinces should now counter federal aspirations with their own ideas Canada’s child care infrastructure is far from neat and tidy, but it does have an overarching logic…

Just under a year ago I wrote that Conservatives will not win the suburban 905 region around Toronto without a credible climate change plan. I later wrote that a carbon tax with offsetting tax cuts was a vote winner in those Toronto suburbs. Those…

Longtime Conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool says he will no longer tolerate “casual Trumpism” in his personal or political life, and wants to see it stamped out of Canadian politics. “In the past, some people said: ‘Oh, isn’t what Trump’s doing good’— and…

I’ve been firm but patient and tolerant of the populist conservatives @martha79453 and @henry83795 Trumpers in my life.  No longer.  My patience has run out. I won’t tolerate casual Trumpism in my personal or political cohort anymore. You are wrong, I am right,…

The populists are the problem. Back in the 1990s the then-most populist premier in Canada would regularly invoke “Martha and Henry” as “severely normal Albertans” when justifying policy choices. Ralph Klein kept his finger firmly on the pulse of these…