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…
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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…
O’Toole’s Conservatives Court Quebec Nationalists at Their Peril
Erin O’Toole’s bid to become the next prime minister of Canada was already off to a rocky start. Having rashly attacked the Trudeau government’s popular CERB program, his next concern was the deficit and how…
Countering the Bloc’s Dangerous Game
As Bloc Québecois leader Yves-François Blanchet has reminded Quebecers this week, it was fifty years ago that the federal government of Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act (WMA) to deal with a perceived insurrection…
The Premiers vs. The Throne Speech
On September 18, just days before the federal Throne Speech, and despite the health-related perils of travel, four provincial premiers went all the way to Ottawa to hold a press conference. There they demanded $28…
