Category: Canadian politics

  • By any  standard tomorrow’s Alberta provincial election has  the potential to be historic. In one of the final polls of the campaign Angus Reid shows the Wildrose  winning a momentous mandate. From  Prince Arthur Herald The rise of the Wildrose was made possible by the Tory drift. Formed by disenchanted provincial conservatives looking for an…

  • Recently Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak has been crisscrossing the province  hosting a series of round tables with business and community leaders. These gatherings serve a couple of purposes first these are great opportunities to connect with individuals who are most impacted by the liberal government’s lack of a long-term fiscal plan. Secondly and more…

  • Do you know your portion of the provincial debt? Now you can find out with the newly developed Ontario debt clock. This nifty piece of code can be added to any website to help raise awareness about Ontario’s growing debt problem. Since assuming office in 2003 the current McGuinty government has nearly doubled the province’s…

  • The Ontario Liberals are doing some old-fashioned political posturing at Queen’s Park. Sunday night finance Minister Dwight Duncanreleased a statement that the Tories were going to force an election on the people of Ontario  .  In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Finance critic for the Ontario PCs Peter Sherman released a statement…

  • Originally appeared in The Prince Arthur Herald With the upcoming budget later this month, we will focus many eyes and much press on the expected 10% cut to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and what that means for the future of Arts funding in Canada. Of course, the friends of the CBC and other left-wing advocacy groups…