Articles by Colin Horgan

Mar 10 2023 — Colin Horgan — Substack — By now you may have heard that, according to reports in both Global News and the Globe and Mail, China tried in both 2019 and 2021 to influence Canada’s elections. China’s “sophisticated strategy”, according to the Globe and Mail, whose reporters saw top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents, involved diplomats and others backing “the re-election […]

Feb 24 2023 — Colin Horgan — Substack — “So much is broken and not working, and I think there’s a real frustration that things have been brought to this point by the government.” It is a familiar talking point for Canadians. But the source, this time, wasn’t Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who for months has repeatedly lamented that “everything feels broken” in Canada; […]

Feb 6 2023 — Colin Horgan — Substack — “UNEARTHED,” Conservative MP Garnett Genuis tweet-shouted Monday above a short video. The clip, he went on to breathlessly claim, showed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland discussing “the deep personal relationship between herself, Dominic Barton, and Justin Trudeau.” Barton is the former global managing director of McKinsey & Company, an international consulting firm. The footage of Freeland […]

Jan 25 2023 — Colin Horgan — Substack — Canada’s former defence minister has always struggled with the facts about our next fighter jet. “The facts truly speak for themselves,” Canada’s former defence minister Peter MacKay triumphantly wrote last Monday in the Toronto Sun. He was talking about the F-35 fighter jet. Its procurement is among Canada’s lengthiest, and ended officially earlier this month […]

Jul 1 2022 — Colin Horgan — Substack — American-style discourse has infected Canada through social media. Now what? “Canadian politicians, MPs, you guys are wearing panic buttons. That says a lot. When a government is afraid of its own citizens, they are not long for this world,” prolific Tik Tok-er tomtheproudcanadian21.2 ranted a couple of days ago, before quoting the 5th of November […]

Jun 24 2022 — Colin Horgan — UK Guardian — arlier this spring, a woman filed a statement of claim detailing an alleged sexual assault that took place in June 2018 at an event hosted by Hockey Canada, the governing body for the country’s national sport. She said in the claim that she had been forced for hours to perform sexual acts against her will […]

Sep 18 2017 — Colin Horgan — UK Guardian — hen Theresa May visits Ottawa on Monday, she might have more to learn from Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau than what socks to wear to the United Nations, or how to win a majority. Now that the UK has entered into the difficult early stages of negotiating its way out of the European Union, May […]

Sep 8 2017 — Colin Horgan — Medium.com — aybe it’s time to take a step back. Discussion over the Liberal government’s proposed tax reform — changes that would effectively stop people from income ‘sprinkling’ and/or discourage incorporation to avoid paying full federal taxes on salaries — is now so far into the weeds, it’s becoming difficult to even know what we’re talking about anymore.

Sep 7 2017 — Colin Horgan — CBC — If you were somehow under the impression that money does not talk in Canadian politics, let the latest epic, headline-hogging dust-up over income tax reform disabuse you of that notion. Money matters. And the fight over tax reform shows that the people who have it, by and large, are the people who get heard. Back […]

Aug 24 2017 — Colin Horgan — Medium.com — As always, with Donald Trump, it all comes back to media coverage. On Saturday, less than 24 hours after his key adviser, Steve Bannon, left the White House — just the latest in a string of high-profile departures — Trump tweeted that Bannon would be a “tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews…maybe even better than before. Fake News […]

Aug 8 2017 — Colin Horgan — MetroNews — If you are one of the hundreds of thousands of Torontonians aged 20 to 35 still living with your parents, please consider how much power you have. One of the striking details to emerge from last week’s census info dump was that over half a million young, childless Torontonians are still living with at least […]

Jun 22 2017 — Colin Horgan — Maclean's — The results of an Abacus poll published last week confirmed what most probably already suspected: if Canadian local newspapers were to disappear, few would care. When Abacus asked a cross-section of Canadians whether they’d still be able to get “the news you need” if their local paper were to go under, 86 per cent said […]

Jun 14 2017 — Colin Horgan — Maclean's — On Saturday, Nick Timothy stepped down from his position as co-chief of staff to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, and made his resignation letter public. His contrite message maintained that, as he saw it, May remains the best leader to address the frustrations Britons have about austerity, Brexit and a lack of opportunities to get […]

Apr 14 2017 — Colin Horgan — Article Magazine — There is no clear plan to deal with the fallout artificial intelligence could bring. A week before Toronto learned it will soon host an artificial intelligence institute, U.S. treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin told an audience in Washington, D.C., that “in terms of artificial intelligence taking over jobs, I think we’re so far away from that […]

Mar 24 2017 — Colin Horgan — Article Magazine — When it came to artificial intelligence, Wednesday’s federal budget made only a vague promise — $125 million to launch what it called a “Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy for research and talent.”