Jean Chrétien belled the Alberta cat in a way that everyone can understand: ‘They never sold as much oil as they have today and they’re complaining as if they are going bankrupt?’ By Sheila CoppsFirst…
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Thirty years ago last week, Canada’s future hung in the balance
With referendums now being threatened in Alberta and Quebec, the current prime minister and his cabinet should remember what we almost forgot: ‘Les absents ont toujours tort.’ By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The Hill Times…
Poilievre’s Trumpian language to appease some supporters risks his losing the rest of the country
Quebec Conservatives are now privately speaking out against their leader to the media. Whether these MPs are worried enough to organize their delegations to get to Calgary in January remains to be seen. By Sheila…
Newfoundland and Labrador election a wake-up call for federal Liberals
The message from the Newfoundland and Labrador election is loud and clear: Rural voices will not be silenced. The Canadian government needs to listen. By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The Hill Times on October 20, 2025.…
Liberal government’s decision to deliver all future budgets in the fall is significant
This one-off is much more than it appears to be. Along with finalizing the fall date on a permanent basis, the government is also restructuring how it determines spending. By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The…
Poilievre’s getting traction with his focus on food prices
Mark Carney needs something to show that Liberals don’t just care about mega-projects. No tax on food could be a good place to start. By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The Hill Times on October 6, 2025.…
Is America becoming a failed democracy?
How can you convince Americans that Tylenol is safe when the president says it isn’t? Again, the world is left wondering whether America is ruled by a madman who doesn’t believe in science, and would easily…
Until recently, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk
Those of us who were ignorant of Charlie Kirk expected that his background would back up the posthumous honorifics. Instead, what we see is the story of a man who went out of his way…
Fifty years of friendship, still going strong
Every September, for the past several years, I have been getting together with women who played on my high school basketball team a half-century ago. By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The Hill Times on September…
The NDP race is on
Improving the lives of Canadians didn’t reward the NDP, but instead benefitted the Liberals. New Democrats have a lot of thinking ahead of them. By Sheila CoppsFirst published in The Hill Times on September 8,…