Bill Longstaff

The federal government has promised to develop a new defence strategy for the country and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has confirmed the...

Early in the Industrial Revolution, many workers were concerned about being replaced by machines. The most well known group were the Ludd...

What comes to mind when you think of oceans? Fish, of course. But what about plastic? Most people know we are dumping a lot of plastic int...

According to a report by former British High Court judge Robert Owen, the 2006 murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London was ...

The Alberta government has established LGBTQ guidelines for the province's schools. This story would not be complete without comments ...

At one time, back in the early 90's, Canada contributed more troops to UN peacekeeping missions than anyone else. We were number one. ...

2015 is nearly done, a year of significant change for me: a new home after 25 years of living by Calgary's Elbow River, by far the longe...

The need for electoral reform in Canada has never been more stark. We have just endured nine years of government by a political party that o...

Pondering the late unlamented election debate about the niqab, I took to wondering just what a religion is. Not the dictionary definition or...

I love dandelions. In early spring, when the landscape is still grey-brown, and the streets are filthy from the accumulated sand and salt la...

For nine years we were led by a fearful prime minister, and during the last election he gave us broad hints about who we should fear the mos...

After 9/11, the Americans declared war on terrorism. Now Russia has gone them one better. According to the Very Reverend Archpriest Vsevol...

Neil Macdonald had an interesting article on the CBC website Monday morning about the options for dealing with ISIS. One of the comments—b...

U.S. President Barack Obama has referred to the atrocities in Paris as attacks "on all of humanity." He is wrong, of course. The a...

Lest we forget? How could we possibly? At this time of year we are overwhelmed with noise about not forgetting. Now the warrior worshipers...

Canadian taxpayers are reasonably generous funders of democracy. Federally, we support political parties in two ways through our tax system....

Canada has a distinguished record of contributing to the use of hard power in the world, as our performance in two world wars and Korea at...

It might strike some as surprising, but it shouldn't. A study by academics from seven countries suggests that children from religious...

Good to see that Prime Minister Trudeau (haven't said that for a while) has kept an important promise and formed a gender-balanced cab...

Rather like the British Labour Party under Tony Blair, the NDP made a play for the political centre. The Liberals, led by the dangerous to...

The Dark Age is over. The wicked witch of Calgary is gone. And Justin Trudeau has promised he will lead according to Sir Wilfred Laurier...

The latest issue of Press Progress includes an article commenting on the attention the Prime Minister's divisive anti-Muslim politicki...

I wouldn't dare to be so bold as to play the prophet and predict the shape of the government that will result from Monday's federal ...

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline revealed some intriguing, and perhaps counterintuitive, res...

Prime Minister Harper, the "old stock" Canadian, recently made the odd remark, "I will never tell my young daughter that a wo...

A recent survey by EKOS Research Associates commissioned by the Pembina Institute reveals that Albertans' attitudes about energy and ...

I am no fan of the niqab. Hell, I'm no fan of religion. But if a Moslem woman wants to wear a niqab at a citizenship ceremony for reli...

I have tended to think of Stephen Harper's efforts to instill fear in Canadians as largely demagoguery. Governments creating a climate...

As I was about to mail another donation to the NDP earlier this week, I encountered the following headline on the CBC website: "NDP s...

If conservatives believe in low taxes in order to keep government small, so be it, but when they insist that low taxes are necessary for a h...

Liberals have been screwing Calgary for a long time. When one hears this, one's thoughts immediately turn to Trudeau senior and his Nati...

The Canadian government has come under considerable criticism for its sluggish reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis, and deservedly so. As ...

The CBC, our national broadcaster, is usually justified on the basis of two fundamentally important services it provides: it serves as stage...

Joseph Stalin once said that if you kill one person it's murder, if you kill a million it's a statistic. The old psychopath, who kne...

Speaking at a Conservative campaign office last week, Laureen Harper, the prime minister's better half, declared that when it comes to m...