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Dear Female Voters: Yes.  This is a guy writing an open letter to you on the weekend before the big vote.  I’m a man, with all of a man’s (many, many) faults.  I am writing to you because, if it wasn’t for you, Justin Trudeau would have been a historical footnote by

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[Written twenty years ago this week.] On a beautiful Sunday afternoon just over a week ago, when the rural Ontario sky was clear and cloudless and seemed to go on forever, my wife and I pulled our 20-month-old son from the water of Stony Lake. Sam was not breathing, and

The English-language leaders’ debate is hours away. So think about this: A light switch. That’s what Justin Trudeau kind of was, a Conservative pollster has said. A light switch. “Other politicians are like dimmer switches: They lose popularity gradually,” the pollster said. “Our polling showed Justin Trudeau is like a

It was Feb. 15, 1996: National Flag Day. Jean Chretien tells the tale: “There was a bunch of young kids in front of me. I was signing autographs. The kids were there with Canadian flags, and they asked me to autograph their flags. So that’s why the (RCMP) bodyguards were

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Bang bang. Let’s get this out of the way because it’s apparently necessary. I’m a gun owner.  I own guns. Took the course, passed, got a gun.  Now own guns, plural.  I know how to use them. Trigger locks, gun safes, secure and separate storage: know all that, too. But

Erin O’Toole won by not losing. Justin Trudeau won by sounding authentic, for once. Yves-Francois Blanchet won by being himself. Jagmeet Singh lost — by looking lost. That’s this writer’s assessment of the first federal leaders debate, held Thursday night in Montreal. It was entirely in French, and fast-paced. But

Sexual assault. Because that’s what we’re talking about, isn’t it? Whether the Prime Minister of Canada — and several members of his party — sexually assaulted women. It’s an important question, and not just because there’s an election going on. It’s important all the time, because it happens all the

For Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, week one of the campaign went really, really badly. Week two, therefore, needed to go better. It didn’t. Here’s a roundup of the past week and a bit. When you eyeball it, you’ll understand why every published poll shows the Conservatives edging ahead. — Aug. 25:

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Where’s Theresa Tam? It’s kind of like that popular Where’s Waldo book series, isn’t it? Someone is supposed to be somewhere, except you can’t find them. They’re hiding. Theresa Tam, as is very well known, is the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. But where she has gone? That’s not

The stench of death. That’s the colourful phrase some politicos use — uncharitably, but not inaccurately — to describe a campaign in its death throes. Justin Trudeau’s campaign? It’s not in the proverbial morgue, yet. But it’s definitely lingering near the Intensive Care Unit. The Last Rites no longer seem

There’d always been the similarities between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. You know: Sons of multimillionaires. Celebrated surnames. Chasing aspiring models and actresses. Private schools, privileged lives. Charmed existence. Charter members of the Lucky Sperm Club, basically. And now Trump and Trudeau share another distinction: They’ve both been caught spreading

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Big waves always start off as small waves. Is the wave that hit Nova Scotia politics this week going to sweep away Justin Trudeau? It could. (It should.) Here’s a recap: On Tuesday night, a Nova Scotia election that was supposed to be a foregone conclusion, a sleeper of a

It’s easy to get into war.   Chuck Hagel said that, and he’d know.  Hagel is a much-decorated war hero, an ex-Senator, and the former Secretary of Defense in Barack Obama’s administration. Hagel wasn’t perfect.  As a Senator, he voted to go to war in Iraq. He later admitted that was a mistake. And, after

It’s unnecessary. It’s unwanted. And it’s been imposed on us by a Prime Minister who is unfit. Because, make no mistake: Unfit he is. Untrustworthy and unethical, too. He swore he was a “feminist” while neglecting to mention to other Liberals that he’d groped a woman in BC. He pledged

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