Brian Mulroney destroyed the venerable Progressive Conservative Party and gave Canadians decades of political chaos with the Reform/Alliance Party and the Bloc Quebecois, regional fringe parties that rose from its remains. Stephen Harper finally managed…
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Why Do Premiers Reject a National Pandemic Plan?
As the pandemic lingers on, and the threat of a third wave looms large with the arrival of several far more contagious virus variants, the calls for a coordinated national approach to this crisis grow…
Setting the Record Straight on the Premiers’ COVID Blame Game
No politician wants to take the blame for mistakes, and certainly not for the illness or death of citizens. And they know bad luck or bad timing can befall governments as easily as people, sideswiping…
Canada’s Conundrum: What’s a Governor General For?
The recent ignominious departure of Julie Payette as Canada’s Governor General has created a firestorm of controversy but, sadly, no consensus on the way forward. Everyone agrees the next appointment needs to be made using…
O’Toole vs Sloan: Right Decision for all the Wrong Reasons
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole’s recent announcement that MP Derek Sloan, a former leadership rival, has been expelled from the Conservative caucus can only be described as hypocritical. Sloan himself has made this point and…
Yves-Francois Blanchet – Hypocrite, Racist, Desperate Politician or All of the Above?
According to Yves-Francois Blanchet, “questions arise” about Omar Alghabra, the Mississauga MP recently appointed Transport Minister in the Trudeau cabinet. Surely no one could miss the rich irony in the leader of the Bloc Quebecois…
Setting New COVID Rules: Easier Said Than Done
In the iconic sic-fi television series Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard frequently gives his crew the order to “make it so.” This may work in fiction, but not in the real world. The more important…
2020: Not Just the Year of COVID
Since early March 2020 media coverage of the global pandemic has been non-stop 24/7, to the exclusion of almost everything else that has happened. Hardly surprising, then, that even the most assiduous followers of current…
Fact vs Ideology in Canada’s Covid Politics
Here are two phrases to live by: “Not all opinions are created equal” and “Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.” Sadly, in Canada both of those warnings have never been more…
Anybody’s Guess Where O’Toole is Taking the Conservatives
Since he became the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in late August, 2020, Erin O’Toole has taken the party on a wild ride. In the space of less than three months the…
