Warren Kinsella: My latest: JC, come back

Where have the political leaders gone? The federal ones, that is. The national ones. The ones who are supposed to be leading this country, and other countries. National leadership — in Canada, in the United States, in Europe and in myriad democracies around the world — seems to have disappeared.

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Warren Kinsella: My latest: Doug vs. Pierre

This is a tale of two “Conservatives.” We say “Conservative” in quotation marks to make a point. And the point is this: Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre may be notionally, nominally “Conservatives.” But they are very, very — very — different. And, for both men, it’s a very big political

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Warren Kinsella: My latest: character matters

When does a politician’s character get revealed? Because, as Ken Dryden once memorably said about hockey, character doesn’t get built by the political life. It gets revealed. Our history is full of those unplanned, unscheduled moments when a leader’s character is revealed. During the October Crisis, when Canadians were terrorized

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