May 23 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — The political plague of populism is sweeping across the United States at an alarming rate. Who could have imagined a traditional political party like the GOP standing for the Big Lie that Joe Biden and the Democrats stole the 2020 election, especially after that allegation has been thoroughly debunked in every official recount and court […]
May 16 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — By any normal measure, Justin Trudeau ought to be planning for a career path change. Not many people in federal politics win the PM’s job and a majority government on their first try. Even fewer win three consecutive federal elections, albeit by lesser margins, in the age of drive-by-smear politics. Few besides Trudeau have inherited—and […]
May 2 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — It is getting clearer by the day, that a red flashing light is flashing not only over Ukraine, but the whole world. The West decided last February that it would not use direct force to stop Vladimir Putin’s homicidal war against an innocent nation. Why? The Ukrainians didn’t have the right paper work. They weren’t […]
Apr 18 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Despite fawning praise from the usual suspects, the only thing Pierre Poilievre has going for him is the political death wish of the hard Right. And that may very well be why he becomes the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Winning the political mud-wrestling contest of the party leadership is a universe […]
Apr 4 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Joe Biden is facing his 80th birthday this year, and the perfect political storm. It takes what used to be a mortgage payment to fill the gas tank in the land of the sort of free and the sort of brave. The average price of a house state-side has risen 25 per cent in just […]
Mar 28 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — There is something hollow and terrible about the leader of the Western World calling Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and then watching from the sidelines day after day, as the Russian president barbarizes millions of people with his rockets, bombs, and tanks. U.S. President Joe Biden has followed what many people in government and the […]
Mar 21 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Don’t poke the bear. In a nutshell, that has been the West’s ostensible approach to Russia’s sad and sickening invasion of Ukraine, now entering its fourth week. That is how countries like the United States, Canada, and many of their European allies justify not stopping Russian forces from targeting and killing women and children, blowing […]
Mar 7 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Ukraine’s pop-star president, the guy in the T-shirt, says if Ukraine goes down, it’s not just the end of one country. It is the end of the world. In other words, if Ukraine dies, ask not for whom the bell tolls. You know the rest. It is true that war leaders deal in hyperbole, but […]
Feb 28 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Former Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko has described Vladimir Putin in a nutshell. “He’s just simply mad. He’s just simply crazy. He’s just simply evil to come here to kill Ukrainians.” If Poroshenko has it right, the world has awakened to its worst nightmare. How do you deal with a madman with 4,500 nuclear weapons, who […]
Feb 7 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Just two words for the mob holding Ottawa hostage: truck off. Everyone in this country believes in the right to protest. A protest allows free people to display their dissent over public issues. The right to protest is invaluable. It has worked miracles in changing the course of history. The civil rights marches and protests […]
Jan 31 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — So the tyranny of the minority is behind the wheel and taking dead aim at Canadian democracy. As they say about the internet, it doesn’t matter about the content of your message, it’s all about the size of the splash. As I write this on Friday, truckers who have taken it upon themselves to gum […]
Jan 24 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — It was a bad week for misbehaving political elites. Take Jason Kenney, temporarily Alberta’s premier until next year’s election. He was already on a bullet-train to oblivion for a host of tawdry scandals and poor decisions, including botching the response to the pandemic. Remember, this is the guy who told Albertans that the summer of […]
Jan 10 2022 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — U.S. President Joe Biden has finally delivered his Hail Mary speech. He is getting a lot of praise is some quarters, namely on CNN and in a few of the big U.S. papers. Understandably. Though he wasn’t exactly Barack Obama, by Biden standards, it was a pretty good speech. That’s because he usually sounds like […]
Dec 13 2021 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — As phony virtue signalling goes, it would be hard to beat Canada’s decision to diplomatically boycott the Beijing Olympics. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that the decision not to send government officials to the 2022 Games reflects Canada’s “deep concerns” about human rights abuses in China. Deep? With a million Uyghur Muslims in Chinese “re-education” […]
Nov 15 2021 — Michael Harris — Hill Times — Sooner or later, Erin O’Toole is going to have to admit that his stroll down the left bank of Canada’s political canal is a failure. There is the obvious failure measured by seats won in the last federal election. Poor old Andrew Scheer got the Julius Caesar treatment after his one and only election as […]