Netanyahu is a big part of the reason. Israel’s leader is propped up by a coalition of far right religious extremists, and adamantly refuses to let anyone else speak for Israel in the West. He has ...

So, now, when it comes to world affairs, Canada is a season’s ticket holder in the nosebleed seats. Holding up homemade signs, hollering, hoping to get on TV, while the real action is playing out ...

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That was the question being asked, online, 24 hours after the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump. People – not always anonymous, and some of them not necessarily Democrats – were posting funny ...

Yes, the government is still the government. Yes, the Official Opposition is still the Official Opposition. Yes, the turnout was low. Yes, nothing really changed. Yes, the punditocracy reads too much ...

People can make their own decisions. But Canadians who enthusiastically defend Trump and his retinue of grifters and bigots? You are way, way offside Canadian public opinion (up to 90 per cent offside ...

David Johnston’s astonishing decision – to conclude that Canada does not need an inquiry into Chinese interference in our democracy – will be remembered for what it doesn’t do, not what it does. Here ...

A few years ago, I wrote this: “[Pierre Poilievre]is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he ...

What if the Conservatives lose? Every poll, just about, now suggests they will. The seat projections are worse. Even the polls that describe a very tight race – like Mainstreet – project a Mark Carney ...

But opposition parties can defeat themselves too. And, this past week, the Conservative Party of Canada was busily doing just that. Three well-known Conservative MPs — one of them a two-time ...