Our health care system is collapsing before our eyes and clearly status quo not working. Yet any talk of reforms or more private involvement sees your usual suspects screaming US two tiered system. I believe this is unhelpful. I understand fear and anxiety but when something is not working, you need to make changes. And… Continue reading Health Care Reforms

It is that time of year of again so below are my predictions. As usual probably get some right and some wrong. As always events matter and those in fall most likely to see circumstances change than those in next few months. Canada Unless federal government calls an early election (I don't think they will,… Continue reading 2023 political predictions

With rise of Poilievre and Danielle Smith in Alberta we are seeing a rise in anti-establishment politics. Most found the two especially latter quite toxic and generally in Canada much to Chargin of right wing populists; Canadians generally have a fairly high trust of establishment and the backlash against the so called Liberal elites is… Continue reading Establishment right or wrong

It's been almost 24 hours since first polls closed and we still don't know who will control either house. While not totally surprised senate is unknown, I figured by now house would have already been called for GOP. Fact it has not shows serious problems as I will discuss below. Below will be on house,… Continue reading Midterms – preliminary results

Haven't written a lot on midterms, but below are my predictions five days out. I will update them on November 7th if anything changes. Right now I think GOP winning the house is a near certainty and would be huge shock if did not. I am guessing GOP gets between 230-240 seats so a comfortable… Continue reading US Midterms

Recently we have seen a number of centre-right governments propose disturbing legislations. First is more regular use of notwithstanding clause including Ford using it to impose a contract on CUPE support educational staff. Other is Alberta and Saskatchewan bringing in sovereignty acts. Ford has for third time used the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract… Continue reading Ford use of notwithstanding clause and sovereignty acts

In past 2 months, both Alberta and UK have chosen new leaders of respective jurisdictions and both have been unmitigated disasters. Despite being two very different jurisdictions with very different economic issues, the similarities are surprisingly strong. Sure there are some differences but both are examples that will probably in 30 years be in first… Continue reading A tale of two disastrous starts to government

To no one's surprise Danielle Smith has become the next UCP leader and unfortunately next premier of Alberta. That being said it was closer than I thought and had ridings been weighted equally it is likely Toews would have won as Smith's support mostly in rural areas where majority of UCP members are, but not… Continue reading Danielle Smith becomes next UCP leader

As per earlier blog, pound has crashed and Tory poll numbers have too in UK over recent mini-budget so this will focus on other events elsewhere I have not discussed. UCP in Alberta will choose next leader and premier on October 6th so I will save that for a post after that. Instead, recent Italian… Continue reading Major political events elsewhere

UK has dropped their mini budget and big change under Truss. Some will say it is preview into what we will get if Poilievre becomes PM and possible but not so sure. Either way, its a classic example of supply side economics and perfect caricature of type of policies left likes to attack. While a… Continue reading UK mini budget