Michael Laxer wasted no time conducting a powerful, incisive post mortem on the lifeless corpse of today’s New Democratic Party. He concludes the wounds were both mortal and self-inflicted. The…
Think of it as one of those “glass half full” thingees. I found this over at WikiPedia. Maybe it’ll lift the sagging spirits of some of you New Dem party…
Stephen Harper’s fall from power has been greeted with obvious delight by the folks at The New Republic. Coupled with the coup that recently toppled Aussie climate change bad boy,…
One thing sure to follow any big upset election is a flood tide of speculation. The big question, naturally, is who will fill the shoes of the Prince of Darkness?…
Damn! I forgot to unload my Enbridge stock. I expect the market for pipelines is a tad wobbly this morning. The Northern Gateway (we’re told) is dead, dead, dead. The…
Harper is out. Trudeau is in, big time. I didn’t vote for either of those guys or Mulcair, yet I’m enormously relieved that Stephen Harper didn’t return for the final…
If it was a rodeo they’d have to award me one of those big, shiny belt buckles for this. Ladies and gentlemen, I broke 2:30! From the front door of…
As I recoiled from one lockstep Harper endorsement to the other in our nation’s newspapers over the weekend, I repeatedly had to ask, “how could you?” Then Benjamin Perrin, law…
Odin willing, Shifty Steve Harper will be toast by tomorrow’s end. It will probably take some time and a lot of therapy to straighten out his clutchy fingers that have…
William Thorsell was editor-in-chief of the Globe & Mail from 1989 to 2000 back in the days of legitimate journalism. That’s way back before it fell into the clutches of…
What’s going on at Harper’s PMO? BuzzFeed Canada reports that moving trucks have appeared delivering pallets of flat-packed cardboard boxes to the Langevin Block offices. Look on the bright side.…
If, as the polls suggest, Stephen Harper will be toppled tomorrow, the first thing the next prime minister must do is to free our government’s scientists. Release them from the…
They’re a people we’ve taken for granted for, well, forever. To the extent most Canadians thought of First Nations it was generally in the context of stereotypes and pejoratives. They…
The teaser at the CBC web site gave me pause: “Harper fires up supporters at rally promoted by Ford brothers.“ I found myself asking, Is that how this ends? Really?…
Don’t kid yourself. We’ll never get back to what we used to think of as Canadian so long as our leaders keep turning a blind eye to this.
Ask most Canadians to name Canada’s biggest technology success story and they’ll probably be hard pressed to come up with an answer. Blackberry? No, that’s out. Hmmm. The answer, for…
When it comes time for Stephen Harper’s portrait to hang alongside those of his prime ministerial betters in Parliament, this one should suffice. It’s got my vote. Illustration by Victor…
He was the guy who was supposed to throw Stephen Harper’s Hail Mary pass and now it seems he chose to run with the ball instead – right off the…
Next week’s general election will decide whether we can restore the Rule of Law and a functional democracy to Canada. Both hinge on driving Stephen Harper out of office. Yet…
If you support the Liberals or the New Democrats or the Greens, ‘strategic voting’ has a pretty obvious meaning. What if you’re a Tory, to be more precise – a…
