Long, long ago, in the prehistoric times before the Internet, I was a reporter at a fine Postmedia paper, the Calgary Herald. I’d work there on weekends during law school, to keep myself in Kraft ...

MusingsAnd they’re off! The Liberal Party’s leadership contenders, that is. Although some have been quietly organizing for many months. Does that give them an advantage? Not necessarily. Here’s the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A reasonable apprehension of bias — that’s what we learned to call it in law school. It’s the legal standard, in Canadian law, for disqualifying a judge or decision-maker in an administrative tribunal ...

Justin Trudeau – finally, blessedly – is gone. Mark Carney, the charisma-free zone who takes showers in three-piece suits, is the Selected Prime Minister. The polls suggest he could soon become the ...

The rule of law. It’s a phrase we hear a lot in times like these. It’s tossed around like confetti, I think, until it becomes as trivial as confetti. But those four little words are so, so important.

 By-elections don’t count, except when they count. Do last night’s count? Well, not really. By-elections are mostly symbolic. But, given that politics is all about symbols, they still matter. They ...

Name ten federal cabinet ministers. Just ten. It’s not a lot. Ten represents just a quarter of Justin Trudeau’s cabinets in recent years. So, name ten. But you can’t, can you? You’re not alone. Few ...

Said the famous socicultural expert, with typical insight and perspicacity : “I don’t like parties past 2 a.m. Then it’s all losers and weirdos.” The expert, of course, is socialite Paris Hilton, who ...

MusingsKey difference between Hamas and Hezbollah: the former invested heavily in the propaganda war and the latter did not. Compare what is happening now in the West to nine months ago. Night and day ...

Governments defeat themselves. 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 — ...