John Horgan’s five years as Premier will cap a 30-year career in provincial politics. While current opinion polls show satisfaction with his leadership, history will discount the blarney and examine…
it’s not the ocean you hear when you hold a seashell to your ear, or your own heartbeat drumming and echoing back at you. it’s the ones you’ve lost calling…
Ottawa area MP Pierre Poilievre has something to complain about. After his carefully choreographed campaign for the conservative leadership has led the field, he is starting to see his basic…
Back in 1991, when morning newspapers pretty well set the news agenda for everyone else, what went on the front page of Thursday’s edition would have been the topic of…
On May 2, the Kenney government announced it would avail diabetic Albertans of newer, more technologically advanced insulin pumps. Then 10 days later it announced it was “pausing” this decision…
It's almost too good to be true. Like a Con version of the story of the Hare and the Tortoise. Pierre Poilievre gets off to a flying start, leaves the…
A man who helped define the Canadian justice system as deeply flawed, has died at age 69. David was sent to jail for a murder that he didn’t commit. The…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Judy Melinek offers a coroner’s perspective on the large number of ways in which COVID infection can result in death or severe…
In his first quest for the brass ring, Doug Ford ran as an unapologetic populist. Robin Sears writes: Like Donald Trump, Ford’s deepest angst is being viewed by his hated…
As a former Torontonian and a life-long Ontario resident, the Toronto Star is a tough habit to break. Like many readers, I have a difficult time reading much of Rosie…
Just a short posting tonight, but it appears that the tide in Ukraine is turning: Long story short. Russia seems to be pulling out of the area to the north…
Can you picture it? If Cecil B. DeMille was still around, and he was directing a big-screen re-do of his 1958 epic, The Ten Commandments, Stephen Harper would be cast…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Dayen discusses how manufacturing monopolies have produced the U.S.’ shortage of baby formula. And Alyssa Rosenberg recognizes that any reasonably-governed country would…
Lovely Mothers’ Day floers and other nice things
Label on a bottle of wine at the Psagot Winery outside of Rammalah in the West Bank. Photo by David Kattenburg. We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Food…
In the wake of Russia’s invasion, many leftists and anarchists have fled to Lviv, which makes the city something of a nerve centre for the resistance. Photo from Shutterstock. Last…
If you want to know how far the Conservative Party has devolved, consider former prime minister Kim Campbell’s comments on what’s going on there now. Sarah Turnbull writes: Amid discussions…
The question was posed the other day as to what is Doug Ford’s legacy as premier of Ontario? It led to a lengthy discussion. In the end, the conclusion was…
