Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition November 19, 2016 Liberalism in North America took a bit of a beating last week. Fresh off the finest example of demagoguery becoming the leader of the free world, the Canadian Liberal movement took a hit from a couple of different sources in the same passage of time. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose and potential CPC leadership hopeful Kevin O’Leary both took the ...
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 10, 2016 Sometimes leaning on your majority is not the best way to do business. Never was that more evident than this past week when the Liberals backed off on the gung-ho nature of their promise of electoral reform. Less than a month before, the party announced it would soldier on with the election promise to reform the Canadian electoral system, and ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 3, 2016 Much to the chagrin of dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives everywhere, it seems like Canadians just can’t quit Justin Trudeau. Either Trudeau is on a prolonged honeymoon or this truly is a relationship built to stand the test of time. Close to seven months after the election where the Liberals rose to power, Trudeau and his party have inched 7.2 per cent higher ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 24, 2015 As Dorothy once professed in the 1939 film classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” “there’s no place like home.” Our nation awoke from a dream this past weekend to a new reality and a new chapter as a country. For some, that dream ended in bitter defeat and was not without its share of victims. But for others, it was an ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 17, 2015 If this election has proven anything, it’s that sometimes it’s not the knockout that scores a win but a series of blows over time that leads to victory. The knockout punch isn’t likely to happen on Monday, but as the days turn to hours, it may be the late-round flurry that counts. On the local front, aside from a couple ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition September 25, 2015 As Canadians head into the home stretch in this lengthy election campaign, both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have drawn a line in the sand as to whether either would support Stephen Harper should his party win a minority government on Oct. 19. “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell,” Mulcair quipped about the thought of ...
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