Author: Peter Lowry

It might as well be admitted. I voted early. I voted liberal. There is really no choice in my Barrie riding. In a field of four candidates, there is no star. There is no strength. There is no inspiration. It is what we can expect if we ever switch to

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole does not seem happy in his job. In this last week of our federal election, he is lashing out at others rather than recognizing the weaknesses of his own campaign. What he does not understand is that there is no perfect policy program to please Canadians.

This argument is not going away quietly into the night. Premier Legault of Quebec said the other day that the question of Quebec’s Bill 21 and 96 did not belong in a federal election debate. Justin Trudeau said the question to Bloc leader Blanchet about Bills 21 and 96 was

Erin O’Toole is the only politician, in this election, I have heard promise to cut the funding of the CBC. Yet the CBC seems to be the only television network trying to take an unbiased approach to the September 20 election.  I gave up on CTV years ago when the

Dammit Justin, can’t you get anything right? You were supposed to trash the Bloc’s Blanchet in the French-language debate. In the English-language debate your targets were conservative Erin O’Toole and NDP Jagmeet Singh. To give Blanchet and Quebec premier Legault reason to attack you for what you did not say

The wife and I voted on Friday. We usually vote at advance polls. It is a habit from years of working on campaigns. I usually know if my vote will be useful or not. Even when I know it will not matter, I still go to vote. Even a losing

It looks like there will be a lot of arguments in the days ahead about how Canada elects its politicians. When you are electing 338 individual members of parliament across a country as large as large as ours, a tie for first place has to be an extremely rare event.

There is a flow to this election. It is like the wave that starts far out to sea as a gentle roller. It grows in size and anger until it crashes on the shore. Four years ago, I had a long talk with a Canadian who was telling me how

It is unlikely that the air force ever taught conservative leader Erin O’Toole anything about weapons. Navigators mostly stick to the mathematics of figuring out where they are and why they are lost. In fact, based on his recent flip-flops on gun control, I would assume O’Toole knows very little

And who will throw the first stone? It seems we now have protestors throwing stones at prime minister Justin Trudeau. It is easy to blame the anti-vaxxers, the libertarian extremists of Maxime Bernier, social extremists of the conservative party and the child minds that enjoy the excitement of the scene.

There is much riding on the French language debate tomorrow. It could be equated to an English language debate for just Canada’s western provinces. It would have different spectres to address but would raise the same kind of angers and prejudices. It might explain our failures in nation building. And

It was while plowing through the major parties’ promises in this election that I realized it was a waste of time. It is not just the wasted promises of those who fail to win. Even the winning party can prioritize its promises and forget those that might not be practical.

Who was that masked man on the white horse riding to our rescue at Queen’s Park the other day? “Yes,” he said, “There will be vaccine passports in Ontario.” Whether they are working before Christmas, or not, is another matter. Our premier’s reluctant choice is to copy the Quebec app

It is a form of self abuse that I often study the polls that are available on-line. These polls cannot and do not always tell us the truth. Remember, they are a much-manipulated picture of days before. They cannot and do not forecast the future. At best, polls show us

It’s a strange platform that the Mr. O’Toole is trying to sell us. He will promise anything to voters but he fails to understand that he is pissing off Mother Nature. She has certainly been sending clear signals of her displeasure. We have just spent a summer with the West

One can only hope you are paying attention to the reports of rain in Greenland. That rain spells the beginning of the end of human life on this planet, as we know it. That rain starts in the subtropics where Mother Nature brews the increasingly violent tropical storms that head

Some of our readers are getting curious about the upcoming changes in our betting line for the current federal election. As I said when publishing a morning line back when the election was called, an updated morning line will be published after Labour Day. On further consideration though, I think

The other day, Chantal Hébert wrote in the Toronto Star that a Trudeau re-election was in the hands of the swing progressives. While it might be a bit early to spread alarm, it is easy enough to get a reading on those people as there are some of us in

When comedian Stan Laurel used to comment on the mess they were in, to his partner Oliver Hardy, it would draw laughter from the audience. Now that it is used to complain about Mr. Trudeau’s election, nobody seems to be laughing. Is it possible the pandemic has left us without

Maybe all politics is local, after all. It seems the key question for candidates in this current federal election is: When did you have your covid-19 vaccines? And be prepared for some surprises. I know that the conservatives have not checked and even the liberals might have one or two