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A letter from Alberta to my Quebec friends

Jason Markusoff: You’re a too-convenient target. There’s too much overheated political rhetoric about Alberta deficits and Quebec daycare provisions (which have nothing to do with equalization’s formula)

In the pay equity fight, Canada’s biggest provinces are ground zero

2018 was a year of closing Canada’s gender wage gap. 2019 will be a year of painful delays.

’Mad dog’ bites Trump

Politics Insider for Dec. 21: A few facts to go with Alberta’s angry rhetoric towards Quebec, Jim Mattis tells Trump enough is enough, and B.C. opts for the status quo in electoral reform referendum

Alberta has never had a one-term government. Will Rachel Notley’s NDP be first?

The NDP’s improbable rise in Canada’s conservative heartland faces long odds in a spring election

The Royal Canadian Navy to the rescue! (Yes, really.)

Image of the Week: A high-seas rescue by crews returning from naval exercises captures the perils of their work, and the ferocity of the North Atlantic

Albexit would make Brexit ’look like a walk in the park’

Politics Insider for Dec. 20: The case for Alberta separatism, basic income gets a shout-out from the PM and what China could do with a Huawei 5G network in Canada

What’s the worst China could do with access to Canada’s 5G network?

Any hostile power with the keys to 5G systems could spy, disrupt traffic and even poison water supplies if things got nasty, warn experts. Hence all the fear about Huawei.

Ottawa’s offer of financial aid for Alberta’s oil industry falls flat

Politics Insider for Dec. 19: Ottawa offers $1.6 billion in loans and other financial support to Alberta oil, the steel tariffs must go, and the Privacy Commissioner has a tip for tokers

General Dynamics warns Trudeau over Saudi deal: You break it, you bought it

Politics Insider for Dec. 18: In Canada’s disputes with China and Saudi Arabia the money speaks up, a warning from Poloz about a U.S.-China trade war, and now it pays to be bumped