Oct 17 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — I shudder to think what gun owners in this country would have done without Dennis Young, the firearms researcher who has provided so much useful information on federal gun control efforts over the past 25 years. Working out of his home in Alberta, Young, a former Mountie and Parliament Hill staffer, has dug up more […]
Oct 11 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — What do we need an NDP for? I mean it. At the moment, the New Democrats are acting like flunkies for the Liberals. They are doing the political equivalent of holding the Liberals’ handbags, fetching them coffee and making sure their dry cleaning is picked up and their shoes polished.
Sep 20 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Surely David MacNaughton, Canada’s former ambassador in Washington, knew his contacts with two cabinet ministers, the head of Canada’s armed forces and assorted senior political staffers and bureaucrats were a violation of federal conflict of interest rules. Before being appointed to our embassy in the U.S. capital, MacNaughton had been the head of StrategyCorp and […]
Sep 9 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Look at the list of opposition critics new Tory leader Erin O’Toole has assembled for hints of the more-electable party he is trying to create. His shadow front bench, revealed Tuesday, looks very much like the middle-of-the-road, suburban voters he is pinning his hopes of winning an election on.
Sep 6 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Like father, like son. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly readying a throne speech that will propose to remake Canada in his ultra-“progressive,” super-“green” image, it’s instructive to reflect on a speech his father delivered while prime minister 40 years ago this week.
Aug 16 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The national Conservative leadership race is entering its final week before voting closes. It’s probably unfair to say no one cares. The party claims to have sold nearly 280,000 memberships, so at least some people are interested. (Although in the 2016 leadership campaign, the candidates sold 260,000, so this year’s total is nothing new.)
Aug 2 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — If we didn’t already know it, we have learned from the WE Charity scandal that our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is a vacuous, spoiled narcissist who never learns from his mistakes, fires anyone who challenges him and always blames others for the problem he creates. Sound familiar?
Jul 31 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Here’s the line from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Thursday testimony before the House of Commons finance committee that best sums up what is wrong in the WE Charity scandal. Trudeau claimed he only learned about the federal civil service’s recommendation to hand the WE Charity control of a huge student volunteer grant program a few […]
Jul 19 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — We have to take the politics out of COVID masks. The police shooting of a man in Ontario who refused to wear a mask while grocery shopping shows the extremes to which the mask debate has gone. The shooting was the man’s own fault, according to official reports. After the man assaulted workers at Easton’s […]
Jul 12 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — On Wednesday, during one of the House of Common’s rare sitting days permitted by our current Liberal minority government, there was an exchange between Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that does as much as anything to explain why Trudeau keeps making ethics blunders. It also explains why Liberal voters continue to […]
Jul 10 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Justin Trudeau’s mishandling of the WE Charity scandal will almost surely turn out to be his third official violation of federal ethics rules. However, if I were betting today, I would say this violation will have no more impact on Liberal voters than the first two. Just the revelations of Wednesday and Thursday this week […]
Jun 28 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — As a frequent, harsh critic of our prime minister, it’s only fair I give Justin Trudeau a pat on the back this week for his willingness to stand up to a former Supreme Court justice, two former ambassadors to Washington, a former NDP leader, three former foreign ministers, four former ambassadors to the United Nations […]
Jun 21 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Gun controls do nothing to prevent murders or suicides in Canada. Dr. Caillin Langmann, an emergency medicine professor at Ontario’s McMaster University, has completed a very thorough study of gun controls and their impact on crime dating back to the 1970s. His conclusion: “No beneficial association was found between legislation and female or male homicide […]
Jun 9 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Canada is almost smack-dab in the middle of the freest spending six months ever by any federal government. Even in the build-up to D-Day during the Second World War, when all the Allies were buying ships, tanks, bombs, guns and planes to defeat Nazi Germany, Ottawa never spent money like it has in the middle […]
May 31 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — This past Tuesday afternoon, Dimarjio Jenkins, a 21-year-old Toronto rapper whose stage name was Houdini, was shot dead on a downtown street near the CN Tower while innocent families dodged bullets and scrambled for cover. Already on social media, the harrowing, daylight attack – 23 shots fired in a matter of seconds – which left […]