Shannon Proudfoot
While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Shannon Proudfoot.
Jordan Peterson gets interesting insights out of Pierre Poilievre, in spite of himself
It’s hard to know how to identify Jordan Peterson based on the attention he commands. An academic? A culture warrior...
Justin Trudeau’s detractors are growing more courageous
The holidays are often a time of reflection. And even as everyone is still shaking off their cheese-induced torpor, the...
Justin Trudeau and the Liberals gather for a holly jolly family fight
On 30 Rock, there’s a moment in which Tina Fey’s character, Liz Lemon, says, “What a week, huh?” to Alec...
Pierre Poilievre may soon have a Donald Trump problem, but he’s not acting like it
As Canadians have been feeling squeezed by everyday life, Pierre Poilievre has enthusiastically blamed Justin Trudeau for every single thing...
Justin Trudeau’s holiday tax break spectacle shows how stuck Parliament is
Politics includes a lot of pretending. People say one thing when they clearly mean another. They swear up and down...
The mincing coup attempt on Justin Trudeau failed, but it wouldn’t have helped much if it had succeeded
This week in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau faced off against a small herd of rebellious Liberals who, as it turned out...
A deeply weird and typical day on Parliament Hill
It’s very Ottawa to prebook an attempted political knifing for a Wednesday morning, but also to keep enough of the...
Trudeau the Magnificent offers foreign-interference inquiry a master class in redirecting attention
The big message of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s testimony this week before the foreign-interference commission was – as it so...
J.D. Vance isn’t a turncoat, he’s a shape-shifter - and always has been
The broad understanding of J.D. Vance’s personal road map to the vice-presidential debate stage – where he’ll face off against...
Hope, history and hubris: Why it’s hard to walk away in politics – even from a dumpster fire
During Pride in Toronto early this summer, Kathleen Wynne, the former premier of Ontario, was wandering the crowds with her...
PSAC’s spiteful protest against back-to-office rules points to a bigger problem
It’s fun to imagine the planning that went into the campaign launched this week by the Ottawa chapter of the...
Justin Trudeau and the angry steelworker is a perfect miniature of the moment
If you wanted to see a blue-collar guy conversationally cold-cock a prime minister during shift change at the plant, the...
The Harris-Walz ticket peddles the politics of joy
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in which Marge and a few other women create an investment club, but when...
Praying for Donald Trump, for peace and for vengeance in Milwaukee
Less than 24 hours earlier, their man on the presidential ticket had clutched his suddenly bleeding ear and hit the...
Inside the RCMP’s national training academy, where its newest recruits prepare for the job
Partway through the RCMP training program, there’s a class that covers two-person handcuffing – as in, restraining someone who really...
Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden are used to being underestimated. That’s not helping now
The day after the disastrous presidential debate, CNN convened a panel that included Katie Rogers, a New York Times reporter...
Justin Trudeau does his best Ookpik impression, then offers some real insights
In his indispensable book of children’s poetry Alligator Pie, Dennis Lee has a verse about the Ookpik, a big-eyed, all-fluff...
What you can learn about politics from Arnold Viersen’s trip to Pierre Poilievre’s woodshed
The podcast interview that earned Conservative MP Arnold Viersen a newspaper across the nose this week was fascinating and confounding...
Pierre Poilievre is pretending he doesn’t know how his job works because it makes it easier
Justin Trudeau gave a press conference this week about electric vehicles, but reporters took the opportunity after his remarks to...
What sort of vision for the country can you conjure from inside a very deep hole?
When you’re new to the job of governing, a budget is a manifesto written in the air. All things are...
Justin Trudeau brings That Guy with him to the public inquiry on foreign interference
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the first sentence of his first answer at the public inquiry into foreign interference...
MPs targeted by China describe eerie patterns at foreign interference inquiry
Everyone has been on the receiving end of a social cold shoulder when you start out wondering if you’re imagining...
Liberals say Pierre Poilievre is feeding you Rage Krispies, but they want you to eat your veggies
The Conservatives screeched triumphantly through the finish line of 2023, while the Liberals seemed to be dragging their own inert...
Justin Trudeau is stuck in his own Rolling Stones moment
There’s a weekend now ensconced in Liberal lore that happened in 2012, when Justin Trudeau was a second-term MP contemplating...
David Menzies should never have been arrested, but not for the reasons Pierre Poilievre argues
Let’s give the Rebel News arrest and subsequent howling the Zapruder film treatment, shall we? The main characters are Rebel...
What everyone gets wrong about Winnipeg, except Winnipeggers
If you don’t live in or come from Winnipeg, what you know about the place is probably some version of...
When Poilievre met Murphy, and the Liberals lost their minds
So there sat Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and National Post columnist Rex Murphy in a cinderblock hallway that looked like...
How much is the carbon tax climb-down worth to Justin Trudeau’s government?
The human backdrop at a political event means taking real people and reducing them to scenery, curated and arranged like...
Getting to the core of Pierre Poilievre’s biting B.C. interview
This week, a video that was plainly designed to go viral achieved its purpose, when a clip of Conservative Leader...
NDP convention reveals partisan internal tensions, chaos and rapturous agreement
Even as Jagmeet Singh set out to make the case that his is the only party that will fight for...
Jagmeet Singh’s NDP contemplates some giddy political math at their convention
Some basic political math is fuelling a certain giddiness at the federal NDP’s policy convention in Hamilton this weekend. It...