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.
In May 2006, a reporter asked then-finance minister Jim Flaherty about the new Conservative minority government’s poll numbers. That same week, an Ipsos-Reid survey showed the Conservatives were up to 43 per cent support nationally. “I think it’s a credit to Prime Minister Stephen Harper,” said Flaherty, “because Canadians are thirsty for a real leader. They don’t agree with everything...
LIBERAL PARTY MEMBERS milled, decked in red lanyards, taking photos. “Welcome to Libcon2026” read a banner high on the wall at the top of the escalators in Montreal’s Palais des congrès. On a merch table nearby lay piles of red shirts and crewnecks, emblazoned with the Liberal logo. Two rows of black hats were amongst the items. The words “Canada...
WEEKS AFTER IT was delivered, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech is still generating ripples—quoted in think tanks, parsed in Ottawa, and invoked as shorthand for a world tilting away from frictionless globalization.
The transition Canada is undergoing—including the reshaping of “the rules-based international order and the trading system that powered Canada’s prosperity for decades”—is “a true generational shift,” he said. And it was in this spirit, he told the members of Parliament in the House, that he presented this year’s budget, the first from the Mark Carney Liberal government. Champagne then quoted...
DURING THE AUGUST LONG WEEKEND, a Canadian politician sat in a Smitty’s diner, recording a selfie video. He talked about a waitress he met who worked at least sixty hours a week but still finds that her money “vanishes into thin air.” This, he noted, is “what I see everywhere. People telling me that they’re working harder and harder, and...
He conjures up castles and valleys of gold. But can his fevered imagination eclipse Mark Carney’s grounded reality? IN MID-JULY, Pierre Poilievre was apparently feeling very glum. Sources close to the Conservative leader told the CBC that he was deliberately reducing his public appearances. He was doing some self-reflection. One confidant described him as “deflated.” The idea that Poilievre—a man...
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.