31 h. ago Lorne Gunter: Stats, studies back Poilievre's call for tighter bail laws

Whenever someone like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggests tightening up bail laws in Canada, someone else — a criminologist, prisoners’ rights advocate, Liberal cabinet minister — is quick to point out that crime fell 3.6 per cent across the country in 2024. For instance, last fall when Poilievre first suggested his “Jail, Not Bail” reforms […]

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55 h. ago Lorne Gunter: Who does Janz group want to take council back from? Themselves?

Coun. Michael Janz, the candidate in Ward papastew for the Working Families “collective” (don’t call it a party), put out a TikTok video recently breathlessly warning that “there are two conservative parties fighting for control of our city.” He was holding a brochure from PACE (the Principled Accountable Coalition for Edmonton) and another from Tim […]

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3 d. ago Lorne Gunter: UCP pipeline proposal doomed to be blocked by feds, B.C.

The Alberta government is working on a proposal (to be submitted to Ottawa next year) for a new pipeline that checks almost all the boxes. Almost. The advisory group steering the project will bring together some of the best minds in the oil and gas industry, it will enlist Alberta’s impressive Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute […]

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4 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm the federation

The federal government is attempting to neuter the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause. They claim to be doing so to preserve Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms from callous provincial politicians. But, in effect, the Carney Liberals are looking to accomplish the biggest federal power grab since the Constitution was repatriated from Britain, and the Charter added […]

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5 d. ago Lorne Gunter: 'All current council must go': Protesters at north Edmonton rally get it right

The City Plan wants 50 per cent of all commuting and shopping trips in our city to be within 15 minutes walking distance from people’s homes.

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8 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Carney's frugality claims contradicted by bloated federal deficit projection

The day after the House of Commons resumed sitting early this month, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre questioned Prime Minister Mark Carney on how large the federal deficit would be this year when the final figure is unveiled in November’s budget. Last year’s deficit turned out to be $61.9 billion when it was finally revealed last […]

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8 d. ago NP View: Finally, a Liberal tells the truth about gun confiscations

The public safety minister admits it's impossible to enforce. It also punishes hunters and sport shooters

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9 d. ago ‘More like an ad for a dating app’: Gun ‘buyback’ advertising campaign gets mixed reviews

Visuals of green parcels of land triggered concerns about perpetuating stereotypes

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9 d. ago Lorne Gunter: Smith's pipeline efforts could force Carney government's hand

Of course you remember in 2022 when then-prime minister Justin Trudeau said there had “never been a strong business case” for building a pipeline to the East Coast so Canada could ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany, even though German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was standing right next to Trudeau when he said it. What […]

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9 d. ago BATRA’S BURNING QUESTIONS: Do you have confidence in Canada’s Minister of Public Safety?

WATCH: Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and a hot mic about the gun buyback program. Sun Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Batra talks with political columnists Lorrie Goldstein and Brian Lilley about it. What do YOU think? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below or send us a Letter to the Editor for possible […]

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1 week ago Noah Schwartz: Liberals’ botched gun buyback program may create a dangerous “grey market”

As in Australia, previously legal guns which are not properly compensated for may be sold illegally and used in crimes

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1 week ago Lorne Gunter: Liberal gun buyback a political ploy that won't impact crime

The federal government gun buyback was always a lousy idea. First, despite the label it isn’t really a buyback; it’s a ban followed by a confiscation. And it was never going to cut down on gun crime because it focuses on taking guns from law-abiding citizens while doing nothing to keep firearms out of the […]

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1 week ago Braid: The Liberals face a furious Prairie battle over mandatory gun buybacks

Danielle Smith and Scott Moe know exactly what they’re doing and it boils down to this: they will not allow Ottawa to take guns from law-abiding citizens in their provinces

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1 week ago Carney stands by Liberal gun ban, embattled public safety minister

Opposition Conservatives have called for Carney to fire the public safety minister over leaked comments about the Liberals’ gun buyback program.

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1 week ago Lorne Gunter: Carney's easiest target in federal spending cuts is bloated bonuses

The federal government’s payroll is now more than $71 billion a year and the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates it will over $76 billion by 2030. That means about one in every six dollars spent by Ottawa goes to paying the salaries of its legion of bureaucrats. Were Ottawa’s civil service payroll a separate line item […]

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1 week ago WHERE CAN CARNEY CUT?: Crown corporation bonuses and civil service pay a good start

WATCH: Sun political columnist Lorne Gunter on where Prime Minister Mark Carney can find 7.5% in spending cuts for the budget coming out in November. What do YOU think? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below or send us a Letter to the Editor for possible publication to torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca.  Letters must be 250 […]

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1 week ago Chris Selley: Carney missed a golden opportunity to ditch the Liberals’ gun buyback

The public safety minister thinks it's a mess. For once, at least, he's right

Economics

1 week ago Chris Selley: Carney missed a golden opportunity to ditch the Liberals’ gun buy

The public safety minister thinks it's a mess. For once, at least, he's right

Economics

1 week ago Lorne Gunter: Understand differences between banners flown by Edmonton municipal election candidates

Working Families has better organization and what appears to be a better get-out-the-vote mechanism and the most complete platform of the three.

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2 w. ago Lorne Gunter: Federal housing program reveals Carney government's magical thinking

Last weekend, Ana Bailão, a longtime member of Toronto city council, took up her job as the first CEO of Build Canada Homes (BCH), the Carney government’s new bureaucracy tasked with doubling the number of homes built annually across the country. Put aside for a minute the wisdom of appointing a longtime councillor from the […]

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