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One hundred days. As of this week, that’s how long Joe Biden has been President of the United States. Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, has been Prime Minister of Canada for 2,000 days. One hundred days versus two thousand days: who is doing better?  Who is the better leader? Now, this writer worked

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table the 2021-22 budget of the Government of Canada. The real one. I rise to give the budget speech I should have given yesterday, but didn’t. Yesterday, I read out the speech that had been dictated to me by the children in the Prime

Celebrities love celebrities. Justin Trudeau certainly does. He considers himself one, after all. No mere mortal is our Justin: He breathes the rarefied air of the uber-rich and uber-cool at Davos and places like that. It’s his milieu. Hollywood stars, billionaires, best-selling academic types — that’s Justin’s world. So there

“I’ll keep saying I’m a feminist.” Those are Justin Trudeau’s words. He said them at a United Nations summit focusing on women in March 2016. He said he’d keep calling himself a feminist, in fact, “until it is met with a shrug.” On Monday of this week, no one in

Keep out. Of Canada, that is. That was the rather extraordinary message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week: if you’re American, you should just stay away from Canada. Here’s the official notice the CDC released on Wednesday: “Travellers should avoid all travel to Canada. Because

What would Hitler do? That’s what preoccupies Randy Hillier, apparently.  Hillier is a member of the Ontario legislature.  He doesn’t belong to any political party, because Doug Ford kicked him out of the Progressive Conservative caucus two years ago. On Thursday, Hillier tweeted a picture of Adolf Hitler surveying a

ACT ONE [The scene: The office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March 2020.] KATIE TELFORD, CHIEF OF STAFF: Prime Minister, we have good news and bad news. TRUDEAU [putting down mirror]: What’s the bad news? TELFORD: Our vaccine deal with the Chinese fell apart. Which means most other countries

“Democracies are down-up,” said the old political pro. He grinned. “Movements are up-down.” And that’s when the light went on in this writer’s tiny cranium. It explained everything. Every scandal, every broken promise, every misdeed: to Justin Trudeau, the old pro was implying, the regular rules don’t apply. Because he’s

Some guy I met was interested in getting one of my paintings. Here he is with it. Nice guy.

I got the AZ shot. I haven’t died of a blood clot yet. But let’s see if I make it to the end of the column, shall we? (Justin Trudeau’s possibly hoping that I don’t.) The AstraZenica vaccine hoopla or hysteria – take your pick – has been raging for

One year ago tonight, I was sitting on a couch at my house in Toronto, emailing back and forth with my staff at Daisy Group. And then it slipped onto the screen of my device, and – boom. That was that. It wasn’t a complete surprise. For weeks, I had