Bill Graveland
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News, Politics
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February 11th 2018
The emotions were raw at demonstrations across Canada on Saturday, February 10, 2018, to protest the acquittal of a white Saskatchewan farmer in the shooting death of a young Indigenous man.
To find Gerald Stanley guilty, would be to find him responsible for his actions — actions which resulted in the death of Colten Boushie, an Indian. But we don’t do that in this country. White Canada is not responsible for what has happened to Indians.
When Sarah Zouak decided to write her master's thesis on Muslim feminism, she remembers her professor telling her to choose one topic or the other because Islam and feminism are incompatible.
As a panel of female conservatives dove into the politics of the #MeToo movement, a former member of Parliament suggested women who seek mental health counselling after exposure to verbal sexual harassment are "overreacting."
Christy Clark accused John Horgan's new British Columbia government of "intentionally trying to frustrate" the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Saturday.
Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Doug Ford said Saturday morning he could envision a Ford-led Ontario and Jason Kenney-led Alberta working together to rid the land of carbon tax.
Alberta United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney closed out the weekend's Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa by suggesting the oil industry is "under massive attack."
Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney told an Ottawa crowd on Friday that she's "laser-focused" on defeating Premier Kathleen Wynne, and putting an end to "energy poverty" throughout the province.
Saskatchewan's newly-minted premier, Scott Moe, has taken his anti-carbon tax message straight to Ottawa. "Everyone will lose because of some flawed ideology," he told a conservative audience at the Manning Networking Conference on Friday.
Much attention was paid to a recent poll that suggested Republicans no longer trust the FBI — as it investigates President Donald Trump's Russia ties, the federal police force is now viewed favourably by just 38 per cent of voters of the traditional law-and-order party.
