Colby Cosh

2 days ago | nationalpost.com | Colby Cosh

Advertisement 1The Alberta Republicans amassed only 18 per cent of the vote in their 'stronghold' of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills in Monday's byelectionArticle contentOn Monday, the Alberta provincial riding of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills gave us a clear, unmistakeable snapshot of the elusive Alberta-separatist Sasquatch — and it turns out he’s about the size of a Yorkshire terrier.

1 week ago | nationalpost.com | Colby Cosh

Advertisement 1It’s easy to see how players are tempted by lower-tax jurisdictionsArticle contentThe other day a U.S. news network emailed me to see if I wanted to do a radio interview about Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, which, as you all know, has just had its 32nd birthday; I presume somebody has done the decent thing and gone out and bought it a nice terry-cloth bathrobe or perhaps a stylish quarter-zip.

2 weeks ago | nationalpost.com | Colby Cosh

Advertisement 1If Track 2 of Canada's euthanasia regime is turning doctors into lethal-poison vending machines, why not sell suicide kits in stores? Article contentOn Sunday the New York Times Magazine published a feature about Canada’s legal regime for assisted suicide, wrapping large volumes of reporting on law, ethics and medicine around the individual story of Paula Ritchie, an Ontario woman who sought and received “MAiD” after an unhappy life full of pain and misery.

3 weeks ago | nationalpost.com | Colby Cosh

Advertisement 1Poilievre isn't a Trumpian figure — that's Doug Ford, who Ontario elects over and over againArticle contentI’ve been reading various election post-mortems this weekend, or catching up on them, having sensed that I ought to try to understand the federal Conservative arguments over whether to keep Pierre Poilievre as leader or dump him. This is probably harder than usual from an Alberta vantage point.

4 weeks ago | nationalpost.com | Colby Cosh

Advertisement 1Heroic libertarians, through the U.S. Court of International Trade, have saved Canada from 'Liberation Day' (at least for now)Article contentThe U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a decision yesterday that annuls various salvos of surprise economic tariffs, including ones on Canada, that have been enacted by President Donald Trump since his inauguration in January.