OTTAWA—Imagine being in the Liberal Party and thinking you’re absolved of white supremacy because you have a Black friend (or you adopted an Indigenous child, *cough* Chrétien). That Black friend is Greg Fergus, and like every model minority, he’s made no waves, kept...
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For someone who was ‘silenced,’ May is speaking loud and clear
Oct 6, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Someone should come and collect Elizabeth May before she opens her mouth. Again. A week after Annamie Paul’s resignation, Elizabeth May penned an op-ed in the Toronto Starin a naked, passive-aggressive attempt to excuse herself from culpability in the Green...
Canada isn’t ready for what comes next
Sep 15, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—We’re coming down the homestretch of this god-awful election and evidently the PPC aren’t the only ones with white male rage; Erin O’Toole and Justin Trudeau have turned particularly nasty, as both the gloves and the masks come off. This election has been...
Never overestimate a politician’s ability to read the room
Sep 8, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Are we there yet? We are into the fourth week of an election no one asked for, that has no logical reason for occurring, except that the party in power wants more power. This is a power-grab election, which has nothing to do with the betterment of the country...
White male rage always gets a pass
Sep 1, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—White men have a collective problem of violence and they need to take some personal responsibility and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. On Aug. 27, during the prime minister’s campaign stop in Bolton, Ont., the CBC reported, “dozens of angry protestors...
Liberal sick days promise still a day late and a dollar short
Aug 25, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—Is this election over yet? This is not the start the Liberals had been hoping for and it behooves one to consider the possibility of another minority Liberal government; they may end up spending millions of dollars on an election just to wind up with the same...
Incremental Tory tweaks won’t make for a better Canada
Aug 18, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—This election season is as uninspiring as Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for president in the 2016 U.S. election, yet it’s probably one of the most important elections for at least a decade. This is the election that will determine who gets to redraw the board, in...
Racism with a side of brie: the Green Party’s continued self-combustion
Jul 21, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The Green Party is internally combusting like the engines its worked so hard to rid Canada of. For the last six weeks, the Conservatives-in-tree-pose party has been embroiled in accusations of anti-Black racism and sexism towards its leader, Annamie Paul, in...
Paul’s treatment exposes Green Party’s mud pit of institutional toxicity
Jul 14, 2021 | The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The “Conservatives in tree pose” are not respecting their chakras. Instead, they’re a mud pit of institutional toxicity. In October 2020, the Green Party elected Canada’s first Black and first Jewish female leader, which was a shot in the arm of the paltry...