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Stephen Lewis mastered the art of political civility - Prince Albert Daily Herald Michael Taube It’s probably fair to describe Stephen Lewis as the most successful New Democrat on the domestic and international scene. That’s why there was a large outpouring of support from Canada’s left when the 88-year-old political stalwart passed away on March 31 after a long battle against abdominal cancer. In spite of the pain

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6 days ago

Think inequality is growing in Canada? Think again - Prince Albert Daily Herald Roslyn Kunin Canada’s inequality narrative is wrong. Claims that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, workers are falling behind and younger Canadians are being shut out do not match what the data shows. The position of the rich versus the poor is reflected by the share of wealth each group has

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1 week ago

Government grocery stores sound good until you do the math - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Many years ago, the notion of government running parts of our food distribution system would have been dismissed outright. Food was abundant, relatively affordable, and reliably stocked on store shelves. The industry operated largely out of the public eye, attracting far less scrutiny than it does today. That era is over. Fast forward

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1 week ago

The stress wearing you down is all in your head - Prince Albert Daily Herald Faith Wood Most people think clutter is what piles up on their desks, but the clutter that causes the most stress is usually in their heads. The human brain was never designed to process the constant stream of information that defines modern life. News updates, messages, work demands and digital distractions compete for attention throughout

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1 week ago

Carney’s Emergencies Act appeal traps the Supreme Court in a credibility crisis - Prince Albert Daily Herald Marco Navarro-Genie Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to appeal the Emergencies Act rulings puts the Supreme Court in an untenable position as Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s past public comments on the Freedom Convoy raise doubts about whether the case can be judged fairly. After 60 days of silence, the government confirmed on Tuesday, the final

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2 weeks ago

The recipe for success in business is simple. Don’t ignore it - Prince Albert Daily Herald David Fuller We couldn’t have had a better boarder. Billy Burchell came every week from McLeod Lake to stay with our family while he went to school. He arrived Monday morning and caught the bus home Friday afternoon. Billy had no siblings. Our house had seven kids, including four boys. It was loud, fast and

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3 weeks ago

In Canada, deficit spending keeps winning elections - Prince Albert Daily Herald No matter the party, governments run deficits because spending wins votes Conrad Eder Three provinces. Three parties. Three record deficits. When every party runs deficits, ideology isn’t the explanation. The political rewards for spending are. In Alberta, a United Conservative government that once promised fiscal restraint is now projecting a $9.4-billion deficit, sidestepping its own

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1 month ago

Five reasons businesses fail - Prince Albert Daily Herald Business failure is rarely about bad luck or timing. The problems start early and are ignored until it’s too late David Fuller Businesses come and go. We see them opening up, struggling for a few years and closing their doors. Sometimes we only realize they existed after they’re gone, often because they offered something we

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1 month ago

Governments need to cut Saskatchewan’s massive bureaucracy - Prince Albert Daily Herald Gage Haubrich More than a quarter of all Saskatchewanians work for some level of government. That’s not something to be proud of. Instead, that should raise the alarm for taxpayers. Nearly 28 per cent of Saskatchewan employees are on government payroll, the highest proportion in Western Canada. In British Columbia, 21 per cent of people

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1 month ago

Job Seekers: Who Told You to Spend Time Tailoring Your Resume? - Prince Albert Daily Herald Nick Kosovan Spend time on LinkedIn, and you’ll notice the self-proclaimed “gurus” preaching about tailoring your resume for every job you apply for. Repeating themselves endlessly, they promote the unsubstantiated self-serving narrative that if job seekers don’t customize every bullet point of their resume to match the keywords in a job description, their application will

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1 month ago

Canada chooses to dump milk rather than lower prices - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand. That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy. The figure comes from

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2 months ago

Why trying too hard hurts your odds of landing a job - Prince Albert Daily Herald Nick Kossovan Troy Media Nothing undermines a job search faster than visible effort aimed at impressing others. When candidates appear anxious, overinvested, or emotionally reactive, employers notice. What many job seekers interpret as enthusiasm often comes across as desperation, and that perception can quietly work against them. Strong candidates tend to present differently. They remain

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2 months ago

Love wasn’t always in the air on Valentine’s Day - Prince Albert Daily Herald Louise McEwan Troy Media Valentine’s Day did not begin with romance, flowers or sentimental gestures. Its roots lie in a pagan fertility festival marked by animal sacrifice, ritual violence and beliefs that would be unrecognizable and uncomfortable to modern celebrants. In mid-February, ancient Romans marked Lupercalia, a fertility festival associated with Faunus, a god linked

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2 months ago

Health Canada’s approval of unlabelled gene-edited pork is a mistake - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media Health Canada has quietly approved the sale of gene-edited pork in Canada without labelling, once again acting as though Canadians do not need to know how the food they eat is produced. This decision follows a familiar pattern in Canadian food regulation: scientific assessments are completed and approvals are granted quietly,

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2 months ago

Canada put all its oil eggs in one basket and lost its leverage - Prince Albert Daily Herald Rashid Husain Syed Troy Media It has been a turbulent week for oil markets, with geopolitics, not fundamentals, driving crude prices and exposing Canada’s dangerous dependence on the United States. This dependence is not theoretical. About 95 per cent of Canada’s crude oil exports, more than four million barrels per day, go to the U.S.

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2 months ago

Expanded GST credit offers short-term relief but not lasting food affordability - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is trying to fix food affordability with cheques instead of structural reform. This week’s announcement of a rebranded Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit may put cash in consumers’ pockets but it sidesteps the policies that actually drive grocery prices, including taxes, supply chain costs and regulatory

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2 months ago

Ottawa’s gun confiscation failed its first real test - Prince Albert Daily Herald A pilot gun ban project meant to prove the program works instead raised serious questions about cost, results and public safety Gage Haubrich Troy Media There comes a point in almost every Canadian’s life where someone sits you down and tells you that no matter how hard you try, it’s very unlikely that you are

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2 months ago

Canada has a policy-driven food inflation problem - Prince Albert Daily Herald A web of regulations, compliance costs, carbon pricing and interprovincial trade barriers is pushing food prices higher Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media Food prices in Canada are rising faster than in any other G7 country, and the reason is no longer a mystery: domestic policy failure is driving food inflation, not global shocks or corporate greed.

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2 months ago

Putting profits ahead of kids puts Saskatchewan child care at risk - Prince Albert Daily Herald For decades, Saskatchewan kept public child care funding out of private hands. A new agreement suggests that line may be blurring Simon Enoch Troy Media Saskatchewan built its child care system on the idea that children come before profits. That principle is now being tested by Saskatchewan’s renewed child care agreement with Ottawa. The Canada-Saskatchewan

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3 months ago

Canada is on track to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026 - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media According to official figures, Canada’s restaurant sector appears remarkably resilient. The number of food service establishments has climbed steadily since the pandemic, surpassing pre-2020 levels and suggesting a sector that has not only recovered, but expanded. On paper, the industry looks stable. On the ground, it does not. Based on current

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3 months ago

Your government has a gambling problem - Prince Albert Daily Herald Conrad Eder Troy Media The odds of winning Lotto Max are about 1 in 33 million. You’re statistically more likely to be struck by lightning than to win it. But your government is betting that statistics won’t hold you back; they’re counting on it. Across Canada, provincial governments not only regulate gambling, they also maintain

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3 months ago

Why this Michael Caine film lingers in my mind - Prince Albert Daily Herald Pat Murphy Troy Media “Roll on the release of The Great Escaper!” That was how I concluded a column saluting English actor Michael Caine’s 90th birthday a couple of years ago. The reference was to a 2023 movie about a Second World War veteran’s newsworthy participation in the 70th anniversary commemoration of D-Day. And with

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3 months ago

Taxing food is like slapping a surcharge on hunger. It needs to end - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media About a year ago, Canada experimented with something rare in federal policymaking: a temporary GST holiday on prepared foods. It was short-lived and poorly communicated, yet Canadians noticed it immediately. One of the most unavoidable expenses in daily life—food—became marginally less costly. Families felt a modest but genuine reprieve. Restaurants saw

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3 months ago

Time for Canadians to bank on Canada Post - Prince Albert Daily Herald Simon Enoch and Ryan Romard Troy Media Canada Post is “effectively insolvent”. That’s how the CFO of the crown corporation describes its current financial crisis. And this isn’t just due to falling mail volume. It’s insolvent because the corporation’s management refuses to do what successful postal services have already done: build a full postal bank

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4 months ago

Why so many forecasts get it wrong - Prince Albert Daily Herald Forecasts crumble the moment Canadians respond to rising costs or policy shifts Roslyn Kunin Troy Media Most forecasts fail for one simple reason: they assume people won’t change their behaviour when circumstances change. That mistake keeps producing dramatic but misleading predictions. One example appeared recently in a news story warning that food costs for the

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4 months ago

Despite the risks, the Alberta government refuses to assess the economic fallout of leaving Canada - Prince Albert Daily Herald Lennie Kaplan Troy Media Alberta separation could cost the province $130 billion in lost economic activity over the next decade. This is the conclusion I reached by extrapolating a 10-year estimate from an analysis conducted by Dr. Trevor Tombe, director of fiscal and economic policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy. The

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4 months ago

Canada can finally profit from LNG if Ottawa stops dragging its feet - Prince Albert Daily Herald Ian Madsen Troy Media Canada is finally in a position to profit from global LNG demand. But that opportunity will slip away unless Ottawa supports the pipelines and export capacity needed to reach those markets. Most major LNG and pipeline projects still need federal impact assessments and approvals, which means Ottawa can delay or block

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4 months ago

Want to know why you aren’t getting hired? - Prince Albert Daily Herald Nick Kossovan Troy Media Many job seekers blame the labour market for not landing a job, but people are getting hired every day. Canada’s unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in October, meaning most people who want work are employed. Statistics Canada also reports that hundreds of thousands of people change jobs each month. The

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4 months ago

Churchill’s port expansion isn’t the nation-builder politicians claim - Prince Albert Daily Herald Bronwyn Eyre Troy Media Back in 1913, it was predicted that a railway to Hudson Bay would unlock “industries not yet dreamed of” and spark new cities across the North. A century later, the same promises surround the Churchill port expansion, but this time politics, not economics, are driving the vision. But that vision isn’t

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4 months ago

Bovaer works to cut methane emissions, but Ottawa acts like the risks to farmers don’t matter - Prince Albert Daily Herald Sylvain Charlebois Troy Media Canada’s approval of Bovaer, an additive designed to reduce methane emissions from dairy and beef cattle, was hailed as a climate breakthrough earlier in 2024, but we’re rolling it out faster than we’re building the systems to track its real-world impact. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, far stronger than carbon

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