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Editorial: Play it cool on climate change policy
Between Regina and Ottawa, a lot of unnecessary political heat is being generated about climate change policy at a time when cool heads need to prevail. Premier Brad Wall and Prime Minister Justin...
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Mandryk: Pragmatism needed in response to Ottawa's coal ban
Somewhere along the line, one suspects Premier Brad Wall’s government has a valid point about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rush to end coal-fired electrical generation by 2030. If there was ever an...
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Fingas: Welcome Liberal push against private medicine
In many ways, Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberal government has wasted little time in doing exactly what got his predecessors into trouble. As leader of the third party in the previous Parliament,...
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Johnstone: Wall dashes hope of Christmas truce with the Trudeau government
In this, my last column for the Leader-Post, and with Christmas just around the corner, I had hoped to leave on a cheerier note. Earlier this week, Saskatchewan signed an equivalency agreement with...
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Letter: Liberal hot air on coal and the environment
Ken Hicks of Regina writes: The Nov. 22 article “Coal phase out fires up province” quotes University of Regina professor Ken Rasmussen saying “coal hasn’t been a growth industry, anywhere, for...
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Fingas: Authoritarianism raising its ugly head
It’s long been theorized that the question of how people will be governed has been answered finally and conclusively — that a country with a sufficient level of political and economic development will...
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Mandryk: Wall right to be petulant on carbon price
The maddening manner in which Premier Brad Wall has gone about his anti-carbon-tax campaign still bears criticism. There has been the hypocrisy of his Saskatchewan Party’s 2007 election promise to...
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Mandryk: Wall's popularity is the government's best asset
A couple of things should be obvious to Brad Wall critics in light of the fact that he remains Canada’s most popular premier: For now, a majority of people don’t think we are as badly off as some...
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Mandryk: Trudeau offers piety instead of health dollars
That federal Liberal politicians could piously stand at the microphones Monday and bemoan the provinces’ unwillingness to sign a new health accord may not have been their greatest feat of hypocrisy....
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Fingas: Provinces should push Ottawa for more health funds
This week’s meeting between Canada’s federal and provincial governments on health care was supposed to reflect a new era in intergovernmental co-operation. But instead, it may represent a step backward...
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Vanstone: Santa speaks after another whirlwind world tour
NORTH POLE — In adherence to tradition, we have arrived at the global transportation hub of Santa Claus following his annual around-the-world excursion. The routine, by now, is acutely familiar to...
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The year in review: April
Regina Leader-Post reporters take a look back on the stories that affected Saskatchewan the most in 2016. Big green wave Cam Broten speaks to supporters on election night. The Saskatchewan Party...
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Fingas: In tough times, it's important to hang together
Among Barack Obama’s actions in office, one of the most surprising — and one of the most substantial victories for progressive activists — was the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline due to the...
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Opinion: Pipeline protests should be within reason
Kenneth P. Green Last month Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada, and particularly Alberta, an early holiday present of not one, but two oil pipeline project approvals — the Trans Mountain...
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Last year challenging, but 2017 no easy task for Sask. Premier Brad Wall
Premier Brad Wall considers 2016 a challenging year and many of those challenges won’t be going away just because 2017 calendars are hanging. Any basking in the premier’s history-making 2016 election...
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Mandryk: Please, Mr. Wall: less Trump, more Lougheed
The problem with federal/provincial feuds isn’t that they aren’t remembered, but that they aren’t remembered correctly. Consider the world from which emerged the National Energy Program (NEP) 40 years...
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Mandryk: The definition of populism has been stretched
Somewhere between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, our notion of a populist leader who reflects the common person’s concerns has been spun on its head. Consider how Canada’s 23rd prime minister defies...
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Fougere reflects on positive meeting with Trudeau
In his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week, Mayor Michael Fougere came away with the feeling that the federal government was receptive to the needs of cities. Fougere was in Ottawa...
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Mandryk: Ottawa is playing politics with its health dollars
When the federal and provincial governments offer you two conflicting versions of an agreement they both signed, it’s a good guess that something else is up. Or so seems the case in the 10-year health...
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Editorial: Ottawa is keeping secrets it shouldn't
In a time of distracting news in Washington, the full implications of an alarming event inside Canada’s defence establishment have yet to be explained or acknowledged here at home. On Jan. 13, Chief of...
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