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OTTAWA—During the post-election lull between choosing cabinet and the Speech from the Throne, I ruminated on the political issues that have shaped the year. And increasingly—now perennially—one question always sticks in my mind and will continue to in the years to...
OTTAWA—“In a way, Boris Johnson was the perfect host for COP26. The British prime minister specializes in groundless optimism and empty pledges. The Glasgow climate summit produced plenty of both.” What an indictment of the fecklessness of the United Nations...
OTTAWA—Do the Liberals actually care about people who aren’t white and wealthy, or are they just performatively jumping through the hoops of social justice that ultimately put marginalized groups in further peril? Asked and answered, as evidenced by their proposed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
