According to Premier Danielle Smith, Alberta will withdraw from the federal government’s dental care plan by 2026 mainly because the plan would duplicate coverage already provided to many Albertans (although she plans to negotiate unconditional funding in lieu of being in the program).

On Friday, Ontario liquor store workers hit the picket lines, closing liquor stores across the province. The strike, which will surely upset many Ontarians, raises some key questions about the liquor market in the province.

The original Battlestar Galactica, a campy space opera, debuted on network television in 1978. Canadian actor John Colicos played the traitor Baltar, who helps robot Cylons ambush human civilization.

Canada’s health-care system is broken, with patients enduring record delays in one of the least accessible—and most expensive—universal health-care systems in the developed world.

At this year’s NATO summit, held in Washington, D.C., Canada will undoubtedly face renewed pressure by our allies to increase defence spending to reach the alliance’s spending target of two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP)—a target that is increasingly viewed as the bare minimum.

According to a study published by the Fraser Institute, 44.6 per cent of the average family’s income will be consumed by taxes of all kinds in 2024.

A new federal law—Bill C-59, which received royal assent last month—has Canada’s oil and gas industry and the premiers of oil and gas provinces up in arms.

In a recent Globe and Mail column, UBC Professor Kevin Milligan said the federal government’s recent capital gains tax increase will not make much of a difference to Canada’s economic wellbeing. But this view ignores the obvious negative consequences of the tax increase.

Gudie Hutchings, the federal cabinet minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and an MP from Newfoundland and Labrador, was recently in Charlottetown with local Liberal MP Sean Casey to trumpet the Liberals’ $10-a-day child-care program.