- The treatment of these women is a sharp reminder that advocating for Palestinian rights and free speech is a perilous endeavour, especially for those who challenge prevailing narratives in public spaces.
- The treatment of these women is a sharp reminder that advocating for Palestinian rights and free speech is a perilous endeavour, especially for those who challenge prevailing narratives in public spaces.
- Last week's disgraceful incident in the House should have all federal elected officials hanging their heads in shame. Just how did you let it get to this?
- Last week's disgraceful incident in the House should have all federal elected officials hanging their heads in shame. Just how did you let it get to this?
- If MPs felt the same fear that Indigenous peoples do when they see an RCMP officer, maybe—just maybe—we’d see some urgency.
- Jokes about murderers and the real risks to Indigenous women is not comedy, it’s monetized hate speech.
- Commentator and writer Rex Murphy, who died on May 9, was the gold standard of no-holds-barred analysis.
- Commentator and writer Rex Murphy, who died on May 9, was the gold standard of no-holds-barred analysis.
- While business has generally been complacent in political marketing, others have filled the void and taken greater control of the agenda.
- Though not a politician, Bob Cole arguably had a more potent pulpit than many a frontbencher in the House of Commons.
- As the bottom falls out of the CAF at the rank-and-file level, the top offices remain filled to the brim.
- As the bottom falls out of the CAF at the rank-and-file level, the top offices remain filled to the brim.
- Ongoing operational readiness issues are keeping Canada’s soldiers from participating in key training and promotional activities.
- With Trudeau's Liberals dropping in the polls, maybe it is not too late to bring out their old campaign promise to axe the F-35 contract if elected again?
- Pierre Poilievre’s reference to 'my laws,' is eerily reminiscent of Donald Trump's vocabulary. Laws do not come from one individual, but are introduced by governments, usually under the guidance of the justice minister, and the prime minister.
- Pierre Poilievre’s reference to 'my laws,' is eerily reminiscent of Donald Trump's vocabulary. Laws do not come from one individual, but are introduced by governments, usually under the guidance of the justice minister, and the prime minister.
- Going after an unpopular prime minister will likely not cost Pierre Poilievre politically. But it does give Canadians a glimpse into what kind of
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford, then-Toronto mayor John Tory and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown attacked the decision to grant bail to Umar Zameer back in 2021. Three years later, he's been found not guilty.
- Sending public servants into action to save a city from decades of bad urban planning is like dispatching the military to fill sandbags, or respond to the latest climate emergency—but with far less tangible benefit. It is no way to save a city, and no way to run a government.
- Sending public servants into action to save a city from decades of bad urban planning is like dispatching the military to fill sandbags, or respond to the latest climate emergency—but with far less tangible benefit. It is no way to save a city, and no way to run a government.
- Canadian politicians at all levels have a choice: continue supporting a still-lucrative but damaging fossil fuel industry, or summon the courage and foresight to
- Today’s politics is entirely personality and performances. The bickering plays out like an annoying soundtrack, and the temptation to tune it out can be overwhelming—and unwise. Politicians can invent and evade facts all they want. Climate change doesn’t care. But we should.
- Chrystia Freeland's tax changes smack much more of poetical expediency or desperation, dressed up as a campaign to single out the richest for not paying their 'fair share,' in order to finance a pre-election budget. More research is needed.
- Chrystia Freeland's tax changes smack much more of poetical expediency or desperation, dressed up as a campaign to single out the richest for not paying their 'fair share,' in order to finance a pre-election budget. More research is needed.
- Canada’s productivity performance is weak, our innovation is inadequate, and we seem too pessimistic about the future.
- A plan has to be more than just a litany of fresh promises in one budget after another. Where is the strategy, and what are the defined outcomes that will tell whether it's working?
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- If Pierre Poilievre keeps his focus on fixing the economy, his side musings about how he might use the notwithstanding clause likely won’t raise many eyebrows.
- If Pierre Poilievre keeps his focus on fixing the economy, his side musings about how he might use the notwithstanding clause likely won’t raise many eyebrows.
- As journalist Stephen Maher recently put it, 'Trudeau is not likely to be ousted, Liz Truss-style, since he single-handedly built the modern Liberal Party,
- In politics, it’s often worth taking a risk. As the ancients understood, sometimes fortune does favour the bold.
- The overwhelming probability is that the Stormy Daniels hush-money case will be the only trial and verdict Donald Trump will face before the presidential election.
- The overwhelming probability is that the Stormy Daniels hush-money case will be the only trial and verdict Donald Trump will face before the presidential election.
- If this disenchanted MP has it right, in the caustic politics of polarization, only the fanatically partisan need apply.
- Mark Carney recently reminded us that the slogan 'Britain is broken' led to that country’s exit from the European Union. Brexiteers promised what he called 'Singapore on the Thames.' Instead, they made 'Argentina on the Channel.'
- Gwynne Dyer responds to a reader asking whether the easiest way out of ‘the Middle East problem’ would be paying everybody to leave. It’s not completely unthinkable.
- Gwynne Dyer responds to a reader asking whether the easiest way out of ‘the Middle East problem’ would be paying everybody to leave. It’s not completely unthinkable.
- There are about a dozen potential environmental tipping points that we do know about, but there may be a few still to be discovered.
- To stay in office, Benjamin Netanyahu must continue the war until some sort of ‘victory,' so he cannot possibly compromise with Hamas’ demands. That’s why he is now determined to attack Rafah, Gaza's last relatively intact city. It’s no Stalingrad, but symbolically it serves his purposes well enough.
- It’s not at all clear that the Trudeau Liberals are playing the same game as their opponents.
- It’s not at all clear that the Trudeau Liberals are playing the same game as their opponents.
- The economy may have to be guided toward near-recessionary levels to compensate for the housing bubble’s outsized impact on Canadians’ cost of living.
- The strange part is that the populists seem to take it for granted that their voters won’t notice that they’ve voted against their own interests.
- Once the ruling class sniffs change and dissent, they send in their goons to force those opposing actors to fall in line.
- Once the ruling class sniffs change and dissent, they send in their goons to force those opposing actors to fall in line.
- The April 30 circus in the House of Commons featured no lyrical flow, no beat, just insults.
- Student encampments protesting the genocide in Gaza will surely pack a political punch that will rankle the sensitivities of the Laurentian elites.
- What works in foreign policy is diplomacy, negotiations, and ethical consistency, which is hard to do when you are busy trying to topple governments.
- What works in foreign policy is diplomacy, negotiations, and ethical consistency, which is hard to do when you are busy trying to topple governments.
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre keeps digging himself into an ever-constricting corner as an extremist ideologue, motivated by derision and reactionary dogma.
- Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s foreign interference inquiry has enlightened us on the failings of our security apparatus and its inability to engage constructively with Canadians.