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OTTAWA—#MakeOttawaBoringAgain is closer to a reality after a weekend of arrests and removals of convoy occupiers. Only, we didn’t win anything. In fact, we lost. We are lost. As the waters recede, what is left is a white supremacist, authoritarian movement that has...
OTTAWA—I listened to Ram Ranch by Grant MacDonald, so you don’t have to. When our leaders tapped out of this occupation, it became the swan song for a resistance that is brewing in Ottawa that preceded the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. On...
https://twitter.com/johnibbitson/status/1437836037082976267?lang=en https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1489371301202567168?s=20&t=26uyScJVAHyBTw8RT5zKcg OTTAWA—It’s so rare for political pundits to be right—just look at Stephen Maher. Or John Ibbitson. Or Jesse...
OTTAWA—Imagine descending on the nation’s capital to protest being alive. In that respect, this Darwin Awards of a protest is one I can stand behind. Over the weekend, thousands of truck drivers drove to Ottawa from all over the country to protest COVID-19 vaccination...
OTTAWA—The Republicans of the North have never met a point they didn’t bludgeon, nor a fact they didn’t massage into terror. It’s understandable that the Conservatives want to jump on the inflation bandwagon, since people are feeling the pinch of rising grocery...
CALGARY—Imagine a Black woman who writes about, and advocates against, inequities, who rails against injustice, with an emphasis on the Black experience siding with the anti-vaxxers she cussed only a few months prior. But here we are. Politics makes for strange...
OTTAWA—Is there a rule that I don’t know about where women of colour are required to clean up messes that white men make? Is there a secret meeting of whiteness at hockey games? Is Tim Horton’s a sponsor? In another iteration of the ongoing saga that is sexual...
Originally published in the National Observer on December 8, 2021. It is the combination of power, defiance, intelligence and compassion that made the prime minister of the world’s newest republic, Mia Amor Mottley, a lightning rod that highlighted the...
OTTAWA—Monday was Dec. 6, when we remember the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique 32 years ago. We are also well into the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an international movement that started on Nov. 25, the International Day for the...
