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Pot’s “cool” factor is fading fast
Never to be outdone – especially not by a Liberal usurper to the parliamentary throne – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (how is that guy even alive?) now professes to have smoked pot. Whereas Justin Trudeau...
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The Red Chamber’s not so red anymore
In question period on Wednesday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau needn’t have uttered a word; the self-satisfied and supremely amused look on his face spoke volumes. It was the sort of expression one...
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The true grit of political battle
To appreciate just how rattled federal Conservatives are about the prospect of facing an invigorated Justin Trudeau clad in the full metal jacket of his pre-election campaign armour, consider the...
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Wooing the middle-class voter
With all the strength and stridency his office demanded of him, the second coming of Pierre Elliot Trudeau – specifically, his eldest son Justin, a la the “just society” of three decades ago –...
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When some are more equal than others
It is one of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s favorite yakking points. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair bangs on about it every chance he gets. Even Canada’s esteemed Prime Minister Stephen Harper has raised...
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How to seize the big Mo at election time
With the federal Grit establishment firmly entrenched in this picture-perfect, if not so fiscally beatific, province, you’d be forgiven for imagining that the New Brunswick election amounts to nothing...
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How the Grits are crashing their own party
In politics, like comedy, timing is everything. In timing, like comedy, politics is everything. That said, welcome to the strange, recent displays of young Justin Trudeau, Leader of the federal...
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The federal race to the mushy middle
In a circumspect piece for the Globe and Mail about a month ago, Michael Adams, president of the Environics Institute, argued that, despite the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing of those to the left of...
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Our home and dangerous land
We are, dear Canadians, beset from all sides of the political playing field by the proposition that our lives are no longer our own, that our freedoms are transitory, that our faith in this peaceful,...
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The great ‘Lib-Dem’ divide
Political polls, timely and alluring, always, somehow, manage to say it all even as they point so clearly to our splendid isolation. Where once the young Justin Trudeau seemed destined to reconstitute...
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In Fat City, the name is the game
Welcome, dear webinar participant, to the 14th annual, interactive session on politics in the early 21st Century. Now that we are about to enter 2056 – also known as the Glorious Acquisition of Wisdom...
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The almost-ready-for-prime-time leaders
We knew them not so much by the ideas they conveyed or the words they uttered, but by the roles they assiduously embraced. There was Prime Minister Stephen Harper assuring his audience, like a...
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This bromance might backfire
He’s young, fit, energetic and, more importantly, telegenic. He has a smile that could set 1,000 campaign managers’ hearts a flutter. And that hair – don’t get me started on that hair. If I didn’t...
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Whose party is this?
It should surprise exactly no one in New Brunswick that political parties do their level best to differentiate themselves from their opponents by any means necessary. After all, this province, New...
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New Brunswick’s surging orange crush
For a while here, on the East Coast, it seemed that the federal Liberals could do no wrong. They had a majority approval rating of nearly 50 per cent in the run-up to the national election. They had a...
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The NDP vies for Atlantic touchdown
Theirs may be a Hail Mary pass, mere days before the federal election, but you’ve got to hand it to the New Democrats: if nothing less, they are determined to go down fighting. Just as some polls show...
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How goes the battle for truth?
In the language of triumphalism that always graces a newly elected leader’s speech to an international audience, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared, last week, that “Canada is back”. On the...
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A hand-out by any other name
Premier Brian Gallant’s decision to ask the newly elected Liberal government of Justin Trudeau to pony up new money for seniors’ care in this province is a bold move. But it could also be a very bad...
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The year of living gob-smacked
I can think of only one other year when circumstances conspired to render “yours truly” utterly speechless. 1995 saw me accidentally sever all the tendons in my right hand, deliberately dismiss my...
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St. Andrews by the ‘red sea’
There is nothing quite like an ancient hotel, full of political ghosts, creaking timbers and medieval-sized crackling fireplaces at which to stage a retreat for the reigning government of Canada in...
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