Trudeau’s budget comeback tour isn’t proving popular enough to save his career
Millennials do not seem to have forgiven or forgotten what Trudeau failed to…
John Ivison
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The federal budget is a Liberal strategy driven by panic
Chrystia Freeland is so averse to private enterprise, she’s now trying to put…
Liberals have a chance to reverse their fiscal doom spiral. Expect them to pass
Canada’s coveted triple‑A credit rating is in danger, but a government with…
Canada's economy desperately needs shock treatment after this Liberal government
Lack of business investment is the main culprit. Canadians are digging holes with…
The Liberals' shameful arms ban against Israel will come back to haunt us
During the debate on the NDP’s proposal to unilaterally recognize…
Liberals dodge a Palestinian bullet, but the NDP's bill is yet to come
We will doubtless find out the quid for this particular quo in the next budget. The…
Trudeau’s not for turning, even as the carbon tax precipice approaches
Justin Trudeau had a message for anyone expecting a U‑turn on the carbon…
Canada's Air Force ends pilot training as Ottawa’s spending priorities grow more unbalanced
The Royal Canadian Air Force announced earlier this month that it will retire its…
Expect a finance minister in survival mode to turn on the spending taps
But the billions of dollars of new expenditure needed to shift the political dial…
Here’s to the blustering, funny, vain, exceptional, sometimes inexplicable Brian Mulroney
Canada’s 18th prime minister, who passed away Thursday, said that without StFX, he’d…
The online harms bill risks replacing digital anarchy with a surveillance state
If all these new regulatory bodies and adjudicators are overzealous, it will…
Canada wavers on military exports to Israel under pressure to suspend shipments
Canada has stopped issuing export permits for selling military equipment to…
Poilievre signals he’s up for taking a good whack at runaway immigration levels
Liberals who make lazy comparisons between Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre risk…
The moral preening of Steven Guilbeault grows as insufferable as bicycling in January
Progressive politicians hoping to triumph over right-leaning political…
Warnings about too many international students were clear. The Liberals ignored them
Some days you’re the dog and some days you’re the tree. Housing minister Sean Fraser…
Conservative coyness about meeting NATO targets won’t cut it with President Trump
Marco Rubio, the former rising Republican hope whose future now seems to be behind…
Justin Trudeau needs to wake up to Donald Trump’s reckless new world disorder
The world appears to be drifting inexorably towards catastrophe but you wouldn’t…
Conservatives can flip Trudeau's script on Ukraine
The Liberals rarely miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity but by blasting…
University instructor fights back after being suspended for daring to denounce Hamas
The reason academic politics are so bitter is because so little is at stake,…
Parliament’s carbon tax drama is ripped right out of Poilievre’s script
The recognition by party insiders that question period has become a “content…
Trudeau's top security adviser is now a part-time job, no experience required
When he testified before a House of Commons committee on foreign…
Trudeau won’t shake off this latest vacation fail as easily as the others
But just because Trudeau didn’t break the letter of the conflict law, it doesn’t mean…
The Canadian university teacher facing firing for daring to denounce Hamas
As anyone who uses social media knows, anger erodes our self-control and makes us do…
Canada's UN ceasefire vote reveals what we've become — undependable, unprincipled and foolish
Bob Rae was caught on a hot microphone, just after he joined in calls for…
Canada’s ‘performative' winter-coat shipments won’t save Ukraine, and the world order, from disaster
If western countries do not shake off their lethargy, the supreme international…
University presidents feeling the bite of their own limited speech rules
The encounter that may have sounded the death knell for cancel culture in higher…
Poilievre makes a hit movie out of a gloomy script
Pierre Poilievre’s 15-minute “housing hell” video is a bit like Queen’s Bohemian…
Kissinger warned us we'd need serious leadership. Canada wasn’t listening
Pierre Poilievre paid tribute to one of his heroes, Winston Churchill, last week, on…
Dreams collide for Trudeau as First Nations bet big on oil and gas
Justin Trudeau’s top priorities ever since his election in 2015 have been action on…
Trudeau’s government returns to Venezuela with its idealism in tatters
Justin Trudeau’s government came to power in 2015 pledging to implement…
Canadians have surprising patience for Poilievre’s prickly side, but it isn't limitless
Pierre Poilievre has already dubbed the next trek to the polls as “the carbon tax…
The carbon tax is collapsing and could take Trudeau down with it
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. In the fifth season of the hit…
The Liberals are divided on Israel and completely adrift on foreign policy
One Liberal MP said the antisemitism Canada is experiencing is “frustrating and…
A costly icebreaker bungle sinks Ottawa’s procurement department further into disgrace
Ministers were home in their ridings last week, offering thanks over turkey that they…
The leaders of the free world have no time left for unserious Canada
On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Mark Norman, the former vice-chief of…
Ignoring Canada’s past imperils its future
In the wake of the incident where the House of Commons gave a former Waffen SS…
Having raised the temperature with India, Trudeau feels the diplomatic heat
The news that India has decided to escalate its spat with Canada by expelling 41…
