1.It pays to have a monarch read the Throne Speech. The government’s idea of inviting a real king to read the speech was to impress the deranged orange autocrat to the south. This it undoubtedly…
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Ten Takeaways from the Carney Cabinet
1.Contrary to popular opinion, this is not a small cabinet. The pre-election cabinet that Prime Minister Carney constructed actually was significantly smaller than normal, as he was quick to point out. At 29 members, it…
Ten Takeaways from the 2025 Federal Election
[i] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-were-just-611-votes-from-a-majority-government-heres-how [ii] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/vast-majority-of-canadians-proud-to-be-canadian-poll
Where Are the “Arab Americans for Trump” Now???
Every day since Donald Trump took office he has surprised not only his former friends and allies, but the people who voted for him. Countless Americans in so-called Red States are increasingly distressed that Trump,…
Poilievre is the Author of his own Misfortune, not Trump
As a federal election nears and the Liberals appear poised to pull off the comeback of the century, some observers have actually begun to shed a tear or two for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Apparently…
Reading the Tea Leaves on the Carney Cabinet
Newly sworn in prime minister Mark Carney had his work cut out for him in appointing a cabinet. To begin with he had to address three major concerns of the moment – (1) cementing voter…
Trump and Musk Usher in a New McCarthy Era
In the late 1940’s and 1950’s America went through one of its most shameful antidemocratic eras. Personified by Joseph McCarthy, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin who chaired the extraordinary House Committee on Un-American Activities, the…
Harper’s Attack on Carney a Blatant Effort to Help Poilievre
With former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney the odds-on favourite to win the Liberal leadership race on March 9, and the Conservative Party falling steadily in the polls to minority territory, former Conservative prime…
Ontario’s Pointless $189 Million Election
Ontario voters have just gone through a needless election that cost the taxpayers of the province some $189 million. Extraordinarily it was called by a premier whose majority government still had 16 months left to…
Three Big Losers of the Liberal Leadership Race
With the Liberal Party trending steadily upwards in public opinion polls, while the Poilievre Conservatives are sliding steadily backwards and the NDP is apparently in freefall, there is no question that tectonic plates are…
