A letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: reclaim Alberta’s promise

Alberta deserves leadership that delivers results with integrity. We can do better. We are better.
High anxiety: Ekos poll finds Canadians most concerned about ‘growing political and ideological polarization’

And Abacus Data pollster David Coletto says he’s also finding high anxiety among Canadians. ‘There’s not a lot of optimism out there.’
‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives

If the Liberals were to gain majority status amid the ongoing floor-crossing speculation, it would spell bad news for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, says Keith Beardsley, former deputy chief of staff to then-prime minister Stephen Harper.
No ‘serious negotiation’ with Liberals on budget, says Bloc MP Garon: ‘If the result is an election, what can we do?’

The party released six non-negotiable conditions for their support of the budget in October, but finance critic Jean-Denis says meetings with the Liberals were ‘mostly media stunts.’
Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair

The Liberals have pledged $1.7-billion to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel over the next four years as the force faces a vacancy rate of 7.7 per cent, representing more than 1,400 jobs outside of that hiring push.
How Bill Gates has shifted the politics of climate change

The environmental movement has suffered a loss.
Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs

Unions representing federal public servants are urging members to talk to their MPs about the impact of the thousands of job losses laid out in the Nov. 4 budget.
Fresh faces among Public Works Minister Lightbound’s 16-member team

Wilder Walker-Stewart has been elevated to the role of director of policy to Minister Lightbound, overseeing advisers Whitney McDiarmid and Kabisan Thanendran.
Budget 2025 and the perfection of managerial politics

Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
‘Very disappointing’: PSPC makes new freelance interpretation procurement rules official

The newly published contract terms for freelance interpreters on the Hill maintain a shift to prioritizing offers by ‘lowest evaluated price.’