It comes in the form of a quiet, almost-shy young woman, Noa Argamani.  You may be unfamiliar with Noa’s name, but you have probably heard about the 28-year-old Israeli’s story.  It is an ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Mark Carney looks grave. “The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over,” the Prime Minister of ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Not to get all conspiratorial, here, but we need to talk. About, you know, conspiracies. All cards on the table, big guy: the country has had its fill, and then some, of Justin Trudeau. From coast to ...