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 ...

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 LPC race card, so far: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Never make predictions, especially about the future. So said baseball great (and quipster) Casey Stengel, and he was of course right. The prediction business is high-risk and low-reward. The ...

I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re lot friendlier than you know. Members of Parliament, that is. Partisan differences notwithstanding, durable friendships persist behind the scenes. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

They weren’t an army division. They were actually a criminal organization. That was what the Nuremberg Trials called the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS: Criminals, not soldiers, who found ...