A Third Way

Short Memories: @Debt is not fiscally conservative: Fiscal conservatives hate debt.  But realistic, fiscal, conservatives recognized that ...

This aircraft is right for Canada for many reasons: It is gen 5.  That is a real designation, not a selling pitch. It has a flight profile...

1967?  That is the year Canada died--having been hijacked by socialists whose failed vision was financial disaster for the country, after fa...

The NDP want to have senators?  Let them get themselves elected.  The PM will appoint senators elected...  Otherwise quit crying in your sou...

If you could spend even a week in a clinic in Darfur, or the hundreds of other places where health care is offered in the 3rd world, you wo...

@conducto274: Did you manage to read the article BEFORE commenting?  Or are you repeating lies; or are you completely illiterate? The law ...

An interesting repose John. It is too bad that the press of necessity can seem to compromise idealism: Especially when the utopia of the ...

The Old and New Testaments did not promote slavery. They merely commented on them. Slavery in the ancient near east was normal. If you ...

Thought worthy.  I am not sure of your initial premise, Atheism is as old as at least David: "The fool says in his heart there is no Go...

Love or hate her, this has gone too far.  We target metaphors to put issues in the crosshairs all the time.  Rifle through any literature an...

Before we resort to blaming the world's ills on Ms. Palin, I think there ought to be some honest non-partisan assessment.  Ms. Palin wou...

Canada is not in a structural deficit.  A structural deficit is what Trudeau left us with.  A structural deficit is related to normal federa...

It is very easy to lens history from the modern/post modern standpoint.  It is to err to impose current perspectives and philosophies on a t...

When Canada came home from WWII, we brought back over a million men; our air-force was the 3rd largest in the world, our navy the 4th. No...

Carl Ek When I first spoke to band director Mr.Sieppe, he said "bassoon and oboe are needed." At the other end of the room I ...

Assuming the people accusing Mr. Harper of hypocrisy are not partisan shills mouthing talking points, consider this. Like a game of chess...

I live in BC.  Over 95%+ of the province is crown lands.  First nations almost to a village have access to it from their boundaries.  The re...

R E S P E C T. Canadians should be respected by the BOC and our governments. It was according to their plan that Canadians stepped up, b...

If consumer debt is such a problem. Stop the Banks/CCards from raping us like they do. I would rather see 15% of my payment boosted on deb...

I actually appreciated your article sir, would love to hear/read the transcript of the speech Dawkins tried to heckle. I suppose the diatr...

O come on!  Canada got what all the parties demanded: Stimulus spending even if it caused a deficit.  Do you guys think Canadians don't...

Please allow this contrarin position:  I have 4 kids who are now late teens to early 20s.  I have a crippling disability for the past 10 yea...

I am an ignorant person.  I have worked with poor folks for 30 years.  My kids watched as heroin addicts to come down crashed on our couch. ...

I criticize that atrocity.  It is very concerning to see that sort of racism or religious intolerance in a democratic society.  And I consid...

I am an ignorant person.  I have worked with poor folks for 30 years.  My kids watched as heroin addicts to come down crashed on our couch. ...

I respect that. I think the Conservatives displayed brilliant strategy this week. They have been on the record for Senate reform for ever...

Don't be ridiculous.  Are you so ignorant to not know the way the Senate has worked since confederation? The party in power if it stays...

This legislation is nothing but a rip-off of the rights of the citizens of this country. Copyright law was originally established to prot...

Owen Abrey May I suggest Margaret Wheatly's book "Leadership and the New Science?" I came away from her thinking believing...

What Canada witnessed here was a legitimate lever of this democracy.  It is  has come to light because we have had a minority government for...

For 6 months I have been saying this is Campbell's opportunity to bow out gracefully--with his reputation more-or-less intact.  The prob...

This is more a reflection of a government that has been in a minority for a long time. More common in our histories have been majorities,...

Meh, this is merely one of the ways senates can deal with legislation.  Anyone who has any education in political science would know that th...

Actually Hugh Wood, as painful as this is, according to parliamentary law, the mission extension or new mission is within his discretion, ...

Thank you for this editorial.  It seems a stark contrast to the madness of the world.  Hatred drives a continuum of insanity the extremes of...

I am going to try to say the thing no one wants to say.  Today Nato has 150,000 troops in the war, 3,000 are Canadians.  After WWII, Canada ...

The insinuation the Minister of Defense is/was a general's lacky is so crass it raises the integrity and reputation of this rag to new l...

The problem is that the evil lies in what people think-and their motive. These are intangibles. So if you have a prejudicial hatred to a ...

The province was run into the ground at the hands of the NDP. It was a basket case when the Libs took over. How quickly we forget. When ...

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Recent wargames with Canada's CF-18s and US F-22s and 35s, resulted in the Canadians being entirely wiped out. Not only did we not mak...

What a pile of poo. There is no other gen 5 plane in the world. What will compete with it? The Russians have 2 they "claim" in...

If the myth of right & left wings exists and apparently it does in some form or other, Canada's right wing rests somewhat left of ce...

@tominvictoria:  Sorry for breaking into your habitual rant, but this is a story maybe you should pay attention to. The DND is dysfunctiona...

The Man the Boy and the Donkey. Once upon a time there was a man and his son who owned a donkey.  The man and his son decided it was best t...

What a pile of poo.  There is no other class 5 plane in the world.  The Russians have 2 they claim in the same class, and that is dubious, b...

Bill Bennet is our MLA and we like our politicians plains speaking-just eloquent enough to call a spade a spade. I don't agree with th...

I am trying to imagine the one or two things I would have to give my attention to the morning after I became the Minister of Defense.  I am ...

Well, if only to be a contrarian today, it isn't hard to find speeches by the Liberals in the lead up to the gulf war. For this group ...

So it turns out the 56 billion dollar deficit was accrued in appropriate prudent fair and honest way. Wow that is saying a lot. A dark clo...