While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Bruce Arthur.
So Mark Carney will be Canada’s next prime minister, until an election. Pierre Poilievre has been measuring drapes for a little over two years, and then Donald Trump was elected, and the world started sliding into the sea. When Carney is sworn in, he will jump right into history.
One of Canada’s biggest problem is that broadly, we’ve had it easy. Yes, the land can be harsh; yes, this is a country of blood and toil. But as actual crises go — national, all-hands-on-deck crises — this hockey-loving country has skated. The 1995 Quebec referendum; the COVID pandemic. Those are the only two things that could have truly broken...
On Tuesday, his first full day as President of the United States, Donald Trump took in a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. It’s the traditional inauguration finale: a show of virtue, a nod to God. Trump sat there like a bored child, as if waiting to hear his name. He did. The Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of...
Dr. Andrea Sereda hasn’t been sleeping. Late last month, the federal Conservative party put out a news release alleging the London, Ont. safe supply doctor lied to Parliament to cover up her own financial interests, accusing her Justin Trudeau-funded program of routing dangerous drugs to kids, and calling for Sereda’s medical licence to be revoked. The party has since repeated...
The top issue facing Canadians right now, if you ask Canadians, is affordability. Inflation rose, and is falling to a new, higher floor. Housing costs are the end of the fuse on a time bomb. It's tough out there for a lot of people. Look around. So governments must find solutions, or at least be seen to try, and the...
Alexei Navalny could have been killed anytime, really. In 2020, he was poisoned with the same Soviet-era substance Russia used when agents sprayed former spy Sergei Skripal and his wife, Yulia, with a perfume bottle in Salisbury, England; Navalny emerged from a coma and survived. Navalny returned to Russia and was detained on arrival, sentenced on a flimsy charge, and...
Former Reform leader Preston Manning recently urged the federal Conservatives to use a review he led of Alberta’s COVID-19 response in their next federal election campaign.Below, Star columnist Bruce Arthur imagines his version of how Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre might respond to Manning’s encouragement.