Get Us Through The Pandemic
There were two byelections in Toronto yesterday. When you combine those results with the results in New Brunswick, B.C., and Saskatchewan, there is a consistent message: We don’t want to…
Owen Gray
Stealing An Election
Robin Sears writes it’s hard to steal an election in Canada because we maintain a paper record of every ballot, plus the ballots themselves, electronically counted or not. We have…
Rotten To Its Core
Max Boot used to be a Republican cheerleader. He’s not cheering now. Things, he writes, have changed: I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party was known as the…
The Decline Of Common Purpose
At the end of World War II, the American historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote: Voluntary institutions have provided people with their greatest school of self-government. Rubbing minds as well as elbows,…
An Empty Head
Jennifer Rubin is a former Republican who saw through Trump from the very beginning. This morning, she writes a six-point column which slices and dices Trump’s performance in last night’s…
Any Bets?
Justin Trudeau’s government survived yesterday. But the Conservatives are already serving up another motion. Susan Delacourt writes: The first wave of COVID-19 may have bridged some differences between the parties…
An Election?
By this evening, we’ll know whether we’re headed into a federal election. Bruce Anderson and David Coletto at Abacus Data have surveyed Canadians on the prospect of an election: About…
The Same Old Crew
Erin O’Toole is trying to give the Conservative Party a facelift. But they’re still the same old crew. Consider Pierre Poilievre’s recent attack on the Bank of Canada. Andrew Jackson…
Incompetent and Obtuse
Assuming that Donald Trump loses the election, the people who work for him will soon be looking for employment. Jennifer Rubin writes that they might have trouble finding their next…
Repairing the Damage
Robin Sears is positive — almost positive — that Donald Trump will lose the election. Then, he writes, there will be a flurry of activity: The impact this vile man…
Easy Marks
Donald Trump’s supporters believe that he is there to help them. But the evidence belies that notion. Helaine Olen writes: Trump and Republicans have played a neat trick these past…
Eyes On The Prize
COVID exposed the inequalities in our system. Now it is exacerbating them. Frances Ryan writes in The Guardian: There are times in which it feels as if we are running…
The Government You Buy
Doug Ford says he can’t be bought. But his behaviour suggests otherwise. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Ahead of the last election, after a series of investigative columns in this newspaper…
Second Place
COVID numbers are rising sharply in Ontario. Which raises the question, “Who is directing the province’s response to the pandemic?” Bruce Arthur writes: As the pandemic has progressed in Ontario,…
Kamala In Westmount
Dan Bilefsky is a Canadian correspondent for the New York Times. He grew up in Westmount, where Ms. Harris and her mother and sister moved after her mother divorced her…
Who’s He Talking To?
Bruce Arthur writes that Doug Ford seems to be confused. When asked about Thanksgiving: He said stick with 10 people, indicated he would do the same, denied he said it,…
Completely Noodled
Donald Trump claims he’s been cured. But his insanity gets bigger as he lurches toward defeat. Consider hs interview with Maria Bartiromo. Edward Keenan writes: Over the course of the…
No Bobble Head
I have always enjoyed reading E.J. Dionne’s columns. Perhaps that’s because I feel a distant kinship with his French Canadian forebears. Dionne writes that Kamela Harris did a superb job…