Dec 4 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caught-on-camera mocking of U.S. President Donald Trump is and isn’t a big deal. It depends on how you look at it. The clip of Trudeau seen in a ‘Mean Girls’ gaggle that included U.K. PM Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron has been the talk of the English-language political world. […]
Nov 30 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Fine, you win media posse. I’ll write the “what to do about Andrew Scheer’s future” column. But here’s my main rule of engagement: Just like I only took a single puff of that cigarette back when it was pushed on me in the schoolyard – enough to get people off my back but not enough […]
Oct 20 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Last Thanksgiving weekend, a few of us sat down to play a couple rounds of Monopoly. A relaxing, care-free affair, right? It depends. Such gatherings can end in drama if you’re bringing together extended family who all grew up playing the game slightly differently. Like how there are those who play it that if you […]
Sep 23 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — When the news first broke that Justin Trudeau had cavorted in blackface back in 2001 it was the incredible hypocrisy of the whole thing that likely struck most people as the big problem. Here’s a man who has spent the past four years using the highest office in the land to tsk-tsk Canada as an […]
Sep 1 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Politicians post a lot of stuff on social media. Some of it is newsworthy. Most of it is not. Some of them keep their accounts pretty official, simply posting funding announcements and community events. Others like to scrap it out on the petty issues of the day and vent their daily musings. Each to their […]
Aug 18 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The latest developments in Lavscam are very bad indeed. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been found to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act. We’ve now gone from the realm of political messaging into the realm of lawbreaking. There are those engaged in wordplay about how this isn’t a real law and it doesn’t come […]
Aug 16 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Almost from the beginning of Lavscam it was clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a smug and dismissive attitude towards the whole affair. Back in February – when the news first broke that Trudeau improperly pressured the former Attorney General to reverse a decision to go ahead with prosecuting SNC-Lavalin – he shamelessly went […]
Jul 10 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — For the past few days political circles and talk radio have been unpacking a rude tirade by Ontario cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod aimed at Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. MacLeod apparently approached Melnyk unprovoked at a Rolling Stones concert the other weekend, calling out: “Do you know who I am? I am your minister and […]
Jun 23 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Throughout the first half of the year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was against the ropes. He was hammered almost daily by first the China mess and then Lavscam and it even seemed – for a few days – that his political demise was imminent. A lot of that is gone now. Yes, Trudeau’s numbers dropped […]
Jun 2 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Whoddunit? What happened? Why’d it happen? It’s only natural that human beings will ask these questions if a shooting happens in their neighbourhood, a vehicle rams into pedestrians, or people in their city are arrested for having explosive devices. So natural that there are entire genres of books, movies and TV shows devoted to people […]
May 19 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Trudeau wins a majority government thanks to his personal popularity, as regular Canadians take to the streets to pose for photographs with him, swooning over his style. This is a description of Justin Trudeau and the 2015 election, right? Sure, but the same words equally apply to the original Trudeaumania – the 1968 election that […]
Apr 28 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s something not quite right with society today — the way we interact with each other, the way we come together or don’t come together as a community. Pretty much everyone seems to feel this way – that there’s been a surge in anti-social behaviour — regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum […]
Apr 22 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — One of the more headline grabbing quotes out of the Mueller report is what U.S. President Donald Trump apparently said two years ago when he learned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had appointed a special counsel in the first place. “This is the end of my presidency,” Trump said. “I’m f—ed.” There has been a […]
Apr 13 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — A funny thing happened in the Sun boardroom the other month. Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli stopped by to chat with the editorial board about the province’s finances and the budget that was at that time still being figured out. While we pressed him to tell us when they’d bring the books back to balance, […]
Apr 7 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s one scene that I keep going back to these days. It takes place in Ottawa almost exactly six years ago. It’s the federal Liberal leadership event, the one that made Justin Trudeau party leader. Looking back now, you’d think it would have been a massive affair — the beginning of the rise of the […]