Author: Peter Lowry

Driving to an appointment with my family doctor the other day, I noticed a new and very fancy building nearing completion down the road from the doctor’s office. The sign was already on the building and it is one of the private clinics that Ontario premier Doug Ford has been

It isn’t the ice on the moguls that endanger our prime minister on his downhill run. It is the heat he generates among his detractors.  Even the pollsters are noting that he is having trouble attracting voters among men. In a recent poll quoted by Susan Delacourt in the Toronto

It looks like the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in parliament has lost it. His frustration is obvious. If he is ever going to sit in the prime minister’s office, the best chance is if there is an election in the next five months. In politics, we say he

It is difficult these days to have friends or relations who like voting conservative. When I was younger there was a different type of conservative. Some were actually commendable. For example, I liked former prime minister John Diefenbaker. I don’t think I ever said a nasty word about him, until

The one thing for sure in Canada these days that we do not waste time recognizing leadership. Leadership is a political ghost. It is something that politicians talk about but we never see it. It leaves us craving answers, direction, solutions and leaving us with the fear of missing out.

Ontario premier Doug Ford is not particularly well educated. It is highly unlikely that anyone voted for him because of his brilliance. He is not even that good at reading off the teleprompters. The one thing you can count on though is that he believes in small government, unobstructed free

It has really been annoying me. Instead of spending money cleaning up its act, this so-called Pathways Alliance of tar sands exploiters is spending large amounts of money telling us how great it is going to be when, and if, they ever get to zero emissions.  I always assumed that

It is a matter of wills. Is Pierre Poilievre the boss of the conservatives? Or is he not? Maybe, he needs to make it clear to all the factions of the conservative party. Especially in an electoral district such as Oxford in Ontario. Oxford has a special place in the

After puzzling over a more interesting way to describe Canadian politics, I finally said ‘screw it.’ And, of course, that was my answer. Henceforth, we will describe our politics in more basic words of human sexuality. We will have to practice ‘safe sex’ to ensure there are no unwanted progeny.

Why is it that the grocery magnates of Canada can go to Ottawa and blatantly lie to the members of parliament? Don’t any of our MPs ever go to a grocery store? Maybe I have an advantage in that I was trained as a young man as a grocery store

What have the Province of Ontario and the State of Israel in common? They have political leaders who want to rewrite the law. They want to be the law. Neither Israeli president Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu nor Ontario premier Doug Ford are lawyers but that does not stop them from trying.

Like wise writers everywhere, it is great fun to drop the bomb in your last paragraph. Chantel Hébert did it the other day in the Toronto Star. In a story about liberal Marc Garneau’s decision to depart from Parliament, she sharply questioned Justin Trudeau’s judgement. Her last line was to

Common sense tells us that conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has gone much too far. To accuse the prime minister of colluding with a foreign government, to win the 2019 election is not only crazy but obviously did not work. The 2019 election could not be called a win for anybody.

If the leader of the opposition, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, thinks he could have a case to make of Chinese government interference in Don Valley North in the last election, he could not be more wrong. All he is doing is appealing to the racists in his own party and

Despite the headaches it involved, I often thought it would be interesting to write a book about the ethnic battles for political advantage in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from 1950 through to the 21st Century. I lived it. I was part of it. I won some and lost some.

They thought they were doing it their way. The Ontario liberals changed their constitution. They made it just as stupid as the conservative’s constitution. They learned nothing from the other party’s experience. Oh well, those who fail to learn from history are just going to repeat it. The Ontario liberals

It will continue to happen as long as we allow it. We let politicians such as Doug Ford in Ontario oppress us. He would have been called a tyrant in earlier times. He acts as one today. And we let his friends, the rich, the mean, the venal, the uncaring

It was disappointing to not be at the Ontario liberal party’s meeting in Hamilton this past weekend. It promised to be an interesting event. It was also an opportunity for renewal of the party. My introduction to liberalism was 60-years-ago through the then Toronto and District Liberal Association. I was

Beware the politician trying to fly two flags. Torontonians have put up with the lies about what political party mayoralty candidates belong to, for too long. I can assure you, there is no such thing as an independent who can win the mayoralty. In a city of now 2.7 million,

When are the voters in Alberta going to learn? Tar sands revenue is from a non-renewable resource. It is called non-renewable because it will eventually be all gone. All those big spenders at the petroleum clubs will also be gone. Albertans will have to get honest jobs. They will no