Canada has always been a nation of immigrants. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s National Policy relied on immigration, (along with the construction of a transcontinental railway and the imposition of tariffs with the US) to…
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The Political Consensus is Collapsing and Make no Mistake: Canada is Not Immune
Many articles have been written lately about the imminent collapse of the world order, and with good reason. Many if not most of the institutions, rules and conventions established after the Second World War —…
The CBC, Journalistic “Balance” and the Definition of Terrorism:
How Media Practices Are Putting Liberal Democracies at Risk Amidst all the deluge of coverage of the Hamas-Israel War, it might have escaped the notice of some readers that a small furor has erupted over…
Hamas and the Moral Imperative
In an era of increasing threats to democracy and the world order, it has never been more essential to take a clear, principled and unequivocal stand against such threats. At the moment, this threat is…
Why Rota Had To Go
(or, Ministerial Accountability Part 2) A public relations catastrophe has unfolded internationally over House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota’s decision to ask Members of Parliament to recognize a constituent in the Gallery of the House,…
The Hypocrisy of The Religious Right Exposed
Progressives everywhere have long been astonished by the apparent inability of the religious right to see the internal contradictions in their deeply held views. How, for example, to explain their insistence that abortion, (which they…
Doug Ford, the Greenbelt Fiasco and Ministerial Accountability in the 21st Century
By now almost everyone in Ontario, and probably all of Canada, has heard of the ongoing Greenbelt scandal that has engulfed the Ford government. But the concept of ministerial accountability, which is at the heart…
The Silly Season and Populist Pettiness, Poilievre Style
Thank heavens the silly season is almost over. In the dying days of summer, it seems that even some of the most ridiculous comments by Pierre Poilievre and his motley crew of Trump-light followers are…
Reading the Tea Leaves on the Liberals’ Cabinet Shuffle
By now it should be blindingly obvious to anyone who followed the Trudeau Liberals’ recent cabinet shuffle that there were three important considerations OTHER than competence that drove the prime minister’s decisions in this game…
The Electoral System is not the Problem, and Proportional Representation is not the Answer
Now we know what Andrew Coyne was really up to in his first full page article on the “threat” of another Liberal government propped up by the NDP after the next federal election, even if…
