Shannon Proudfoot

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The mincing coup attempt on Justin Trudeau failed, but it wouldn’t have helped much if it had succeeded

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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...