My latest: Jew hatred comes from the Left
Does antisemitism come from the Left or the Right? In truth, Jew-hatred is a shape-shifter. It isn’t practiced by one ideology – it’s embraced, at different moments in history, by…
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“There will be blood. Here.”
“…for those of us who are in the business of predicting the future, it feels like blood will be spilled — and not in Gaza City or an Israeli kibbutz,…
My latest: Netanyahu is not Israel
Is Benjamin Netanyahu Israel? Is Israel Benjamin Netanyahu? If you spend a few weeks there, talking to Israelis, the answer is pretty clear: no. To many Israelis, their Prime Minister…
45 years ago today
Forty-five years ago today, Ian Curtis took his life. I was in Calgary, and getting ready to start at Carleton and later – I figured – a journalism degree. In…
In a rage
New one. This is in Israel, directly across the road from kibbutz Be’eri and just up from the Nova site. This is where I was with Amit, a young man…
My latest: Ottawa has an antisemitism problem. Still.
Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Apologies to The Who, but the misapplication of their song lyric is apt: on all matters related to the Jewish state,…
My latest: Carney’s cabinet earthquake
“There’s no such thing as a genius in politics,” said Jean Chretien – who then added that he had never actually met someone who is a genius at politics. He…
Mark Carney is doing a good job.
CALGARY – Mark Carney is doing a pretty good job so far. Sorry, folks, but he is. Three reasons. One has to do with that meeting with Donald Trump. If…
My latest: the question Canadian Jews ask
RE’IM, ISRAEL – When you come to this quiet place – where the death cult called Hamas raped, mutilated, beheaded, burnt, slaughtered, and shot 364 young people on the morning…
My latest: Pierre, time to go
A few years ago, I wrote this: “is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is…
My final campaign notebook: the story so far
When the story of the 2025 election campaign is written, when it takes up its place in the history section in the library, what will be said? What will be…
Campaign notebook: they’re going to lose. Then what?
What if the Conservatives lose? Every poll, just about, now suggests they will. The seat projections are worse. Even the polls that describe a very tight race – like Mainstreet…
The Jesuit Pope
The first Jesuit Pope is gone. Like my father, I was taught by Jesuits. At Loyola High School in Montreal, Jesuit priests were not just teachers to generations of Roman…
Campaign notebook latest: how to win without losing
Mark Carney gave an uneasy smile. Fifteen minutes in, it was a pile-on, and Carney was at the bottom of it. The Liberal Prime Minister looked a bit tired, and…