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It can’t be easy being Chrystia Freeland these days. It’s February, a particularly cold one, and she’s dragging herself all...
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It can’t be easy being Chrystia Freeland these days. It’s February, a particularly cold one, and she’s dragging herself all...
Canadians are mad. Oh boy, are we mad! I feel it; I bet you feel it too. Almost every commentator...
One of the most puzzling things about Donald Trump’s tariff tirades is the country he chooses to put most directly...
No way, no how. That’s the message from Canadians to Donald Trump’s taunts about becoming the 51st state. At least...
“You never know how strong you are,” said the late, great Bob Marley, “until being strong is the only choice...
Mark Carney came to the official launch of his campaign for the federal Liberal leadership on Thursday as the favourite...
Justin Trudeau, not to put too fine a point on it, looked like hell when he came out to announce...
Those jibes from Donald Trump about Canada becoming the 51st state are getting awfully old. Once, maybe funny. The fourth...
I hope there’s a method to the oddly disjointed response that the Trudeau government and the premiers are displaying to...
I must confess: my admiration for Donald Trump’s political skills grows with each passing day. Don’t confuse this with admiration...
I’m glad Justin Trudeau managed to get face to face with Donald Trump and make the case that Canada shouldn’t...
We’re going to be fine, just fine. That’s the message coming from the Trudeau government in the wake of Donald...
Like a lot of Canadians, I thought I knew quite a bit about the United States. After all, I lived...
The headline number on the reduction of immigration targets announced on Thursday by the Trudeau government is massive — a...
They’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened in the British Columbia election over the weekend. But one thing...
Canada’s carbon pricing plan is on its political death bed. Everyone but its closest family (the Trudeau government) has given...
There’s not much doubt what was on the minds of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet when members met in Halifax this week...
I realize that tariffs and electric vehicles aren’t the most alluring subject in mid-August, when we’re trying to hold on...
You can’t be too careful these days. With all the fake news, misinformation and AI-generated “deep fakes” out there you...
“Nothing in his life,” Shakespeare wrote in “Macbeth” of a nobleman who faced his execution with dignity, “became him like...
If you ever studied philosophy you’ll be familiar with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The philosopher described people who’ve spent...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau believes deeply in the importance of maintaining confidence in our democratic institutions. We know this because...
The question I have these days about Justin Trudeau is not “will he run again?” (which is unknowable at the...
Governments often use budgets to change the channel from what their opponents want to talk about to what they want...
When information about China’s interference in Canadian politics was leaked to the news media more than a year ago, the...
I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking — about how we come to believe what we believe and the tendency...
Averages can be terribly misleading. If you’ve got your feet in the freezer and your head in the oven, it’s...
What a weird way to make foreign policy — or whatever it was that members of Parliament occupied themselves with...
The consumer carbon tax is dying in Canada – and with it dies a rare and admirable attempt to treat...
Toronto police say they’re “reviewing” what happened during a protest on Saturday night that led to cancellation of a dinner...
There’s a heartbreaking scene near the end of the First World War movie “Gallipoli” in which Australian soldiers are preparing...
Wab Kinew’s victory in Manitoba this week is the most hopeful sign in Canadian politics in an awfully long time...
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