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During any leadership campaign there are lots of strategies and approaches that a candidate and their team will take. Some are above board, ethical and morally defensible, while others are…
Here’s Mayor Pete’s opinion on getting the most votes: “At risk of sounding a little simplistic, one thing I believe is that in an American Presidential election, the person who…
In politics sometimes there are stories that happen that you can’t help but follow. For me one such story has been the case of now-former Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido. Those…
It has always been the argument. Does Canada need a diplomat or a political apparatchik representing us in the American capital? I also expect some humourist to suggest we go…
There are a lot of things about our current political culture that is just simply unlikeable. Some things have been torqued so far and to such extremes that it makes…
While there has been a lot of political turmoil all over the place, many in Canada haven’t been able to help but pay attention to what’s been happening on Ontario…
With two leadership campaigns going on in two different parties, you’d think we’d hear a lot about ideas, the candidates, their ideas and how they would make their parties better.…
In all my years of writing and blogging I’ve developed some rules for myself when it comes to what I do. Those have come from experience and honestly just best…
Today I had the chance to join Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie. We talked about the CoronaVirus and the attempts to get Canadians…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked about the release of the Yale Report,…
With all the attention being paid to the circus that the Conservative Leadership Race has become, it’s easy to get lost in watching that. A lot has been going on…
We’re into the month of February and the way it is starting for some, many observers of Canadian Politics are going to be very happy it’s the shortest month of…
Paris is about to embark on an ambitious plan to marginalize cars. What can we do in Canada and the rest of the world to follow in their path of…
Parking lots … and creative use of them … hold the key to a better climate future.
Season Two of the “Magpie Brûlé” podcast has started. In this premiere episode of Season two, I talk about the return of the House of Commons, the interesting early dynamics…
It’s amazing to me, to see, even in thoughtful writings, even in exceptionally thoughtful writing, which is as far above the norm as the moon is from the bottom…
The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Hussain Shorish and I talk about the return of the House of Commons…
As we end the month of January there has been a lot of digital ink spilled over the Conservative Leadership Race and the serious potential candidates who decided to stay…
Politics can be a funny thing sometimes I swear. It can surprise you, catch you off guard and while sometimes you’ll go week after week of boring nothing, other times…
