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 Colin Horgan.
He promised sunny ways but left behind a divided country. THE MORNING AFTER leading the Liberal Party to a stunning come-from-behind majority in 2015, Justin Trudeau, prime minister–in–waiting, showed up at a Montreal Metro station. He was there to greet surprised commuters and, in many cases, share his gratitude for the victory. A cynic might have dismissed it as staged...
Appealing to millions of voters is a lot different than getting a bunch of registered Liberals to like you IT WOULD BE WRONG to think that this was all inevitable. The Conservatives might try to make it sound that way. They might suggest, perhaps, that Mark Carney’s victory in the Liberal leadership race was, like Michael Ignatieff’s, simply a matter...
OKAY, SO HERE is what’s probably going to happen. In the coming weeks, as Liberals are forced to quickly take the true measure of both their party and the country, they will wonder if they should play it safe. And in fairness, with all that’s going on, this reflex—should it come—is understandable. After all, how is anyone in this situation...
During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, progressives online, preaching a sunny message, generated a collective 1.5 billion views across all platforms, according to one count generated by the FWIW newsletter. It was “a huge shift” — primarily because it’s been a long time since the internet has been a positive, even fun, place to be.
On the night of June 2, 1997, Carolyn Bennett was exuberant. She was easily winning the race in Toronto–St. Paul’s and would become the riding’s next Member of Parliament — one of 155 Liberals sent to Ottawa as part of Jean Chrétien’s second majority government. Bennett won the riding by nearly 15,000 votes. “Obviously the people of St. Paul’s have...
HISTORY IS HOT online. Videos labelled #history have collected over 135 billion views on TikTok. To give a sense of what this means, consider that videos tagged #taylorswift have been viewed around 175 billion times. Not bad for a subject a lot of people avoided in school.