Just say 'no' to Nenshi
The megalomaniacal former Calgary mayor would make a poor choice for Alberta NDP leader
CALGARY — The race to succeed Rachel Notley as Alberta NDP leader is heating up, with three high-profile MLAs announcing runs over the past week. Yet the biggest name cited as a possible contender for the job, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, remains on the sidelines for now.
Nenshi, who’s never been formally affiliated with the party, said at the start of the month that he’d been “listening to a lot of pitches” from NDP insiders and other Albertans about entering race. He sent rumours about his potential candidacy into overdrive a few days later, with an impassioned speech calling out Premier Danielle Smith at a protest over the premier’s new gender identity policies.
The notion of the urbane Nenshi taming Alberta provincial politics — historically a political Wild West dominated by populist gunslingers like Smith and three-term premier Ralph Klein — has already caught fire with media elites outside of the province.
But Nenshi taking the Alberta NDP’s top job would be a terrible idea for a number of reasons.
First, no matter what party he aligns himself with, Nenshi will always
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“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
