20 h. ago Letters, March 2: We shouldn’t question Wayne Gretzky’s commitment to Canada

Does the PM understand your financial stress? VOTE IN OUR DAILY ONLINE POLL! EYE OPENER Thank you Joe Warmington for your wonderful article on the “Great One”. It’s comforting to know that someone in the media supports our greatest export. Wayne Gretzky was almost solely responsible for the expansion of the NHL to the southern […]

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35 h. ago Lorne Gunter: Does the PM understand the financial strain of Canadians? Don't count on it

Can you guess how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bills Canadians every year for groceries at his home at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa? And you don’t have to include what it costs when he’s having an official dinner for the Sultan of Brunei or the Prime Minister of Norway. State dinners are covered by taxpayers […]

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3 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Alberta budget not bad, but it's not great, either

Almost exactly one year ago today, when UCP Finance Minister Nate Horner brought down his previous budget, I wrote that Budget 2024 was “not bad, but not great either.” Looking at Horner’s 2025 budget, I could probably just cut-and-paste last year’s column into this space and take the rest of the day off. Last year’s […]

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3 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Guthrie's departure from cabinet a case of deja vu

Peter Guthrie, the provincial infrastructure minister who resigned Tuesday in protest over his concerns about the Smith government’s contract-awarding process, was also among the earliest UCP MLAs to stick the shiv in former Premier Jason Kenney, too. It’s a bit of a habit for him. Back in late 2021, with the UCP and the province […]

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5 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Burning questions as Alberta legislature set to resume

How large will the deficit be in Budget 2025, which will be brought down this Thursday by Finance Minister Nate Horner? When will we see an independent, third-party inquiry into the AHS contract allegations? And where is NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi?

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5 d. ago Letters Tuesday February 25, 2025: ‘Trudeau’s train isn’t for the people, it’s for him.’

MORE HIGH-SPEED SPENDING Re: Lame-duck PM can’t get off Liberal spending train, Lorne Gunter column, Feb. 23 So here is yet another expense that’s going to cost Canadians billions of tax dollars while our health care, education and military continue to crumble. The Liberals refuse to deal with issues they themselves have caused — massive […]

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1 week ago Lorne Gunter: AHS investigation needs to be independent, transparent

But why would Mentzelopoulos have been fired just two days before meeting with Auditor General Doug Wylie? And why would the AHS board have been dismissed, all of them, after they began pushing for Mentzelopoulos’s documents to be turned over to the RCMP?

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1 week ago Lorne Gunter: Donald Trump's delusional trade policies were debunked 200 years ago

Stick around folks, in this column I’m going to explain 18th-century trade policy, with an emphasis on the theories of English economist David Ricardo (1772-1823). It’s gonna be awesome. American President Donald Trump is an 18th-century mercantilist, an adherent of trade theories that were debunked 200 years ago. Basically, Trump thinks that to preserve domestic […]

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