Dan Lett

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney were all smiles last week when they signed an agreement to begin construction of a new oil pipeline by 2027, while also delaying and softening an industrial carbon pricing regime that would apply to producers.

At the Canadian Labour Congress national convention last week in Winnipeg, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew delivered a fiery speech to delegates about the need to restrict access by children to pervasive social media platforms.

You really have to feel for Pete Hoekstra.

It was a perfect example of the “Wab being Wab” phenomenon that Manitobans know so well.

Is there any room in our current political culture for principle? These are the lingering questions left in the wake of Laurier-Sainte-Marie MP Steven Guilbeault's decision to quit federal politics.

It was hard to pin down in exact terms the tone of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's comments.

It was hard to pin down in exact terms the tone of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's comments.

Just about everyone — from political leaders to clinicians and certainly patients — agree that health care in Canada is in desperate need of reform and modernization. How is it then that we struggle so badly to accomplish what all of us know needs to be done?

TORONTO — Mayor Olivia Chow looks glowingly out of the windows of her second-floor office in Toronto’s stunning city hall, drinking in the panoramic view of Nathan Phillips Square, which has been converted into temporary soccer pitches to celebrate the arrival of the FIFA World Cup.

It would be easy to dismiss the threat of Alberta separation as the delusions of a misguided and greedy minority. Easy because the concept does not have much traction.