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 Emma Teitel.
Last summer, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a master class in the art of tone deafness when he said the following: “I’ll be blunt as well — housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. It’s not something that we have direct carriage of, but it is something that we can and must help with.” Today, however, Canadians could be forgiven if...
It is a great paradox of the current political moment that despite federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s raging hate-on for the mainstream press, we talk about him as though his Prime Ministerial victory is both guaranteed and imminent. According to Poilievre, mainstream media is a mouthpiece for the PMO. But it is a lousy Liberal mouthpiece that publishes breathless coverage...
There’s nothing that excites Pierre Poilievre more than when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is down on his luck, which makes the present moment an especially arousing one for the federal Conservative leader. Poilievre has been busy this month scolding the Prime Minister — and rightly so — amid the federal government’s “ArriveCan” scandal. How is it, Poilievre wants to know...
If, as the cliché goes, political electability is about who voters want to sit down to have a beer with, then it is also about who they don’t want to sit down to have a beer with. And if we believe recent polling, it appears that voters really, really don’t want to sit down for a cold one with Prime...
Toronto’s federal Liberal MPs can get mad and stomp their feet at Mayor Olivia Chow. They can shake their fists at her. They can reprimand her on talk radio as Etobicoke Centre MP Yvan Baker did earlier this week. Heck, they can erect a billboard in the heart of soon to be “Sankofa Square” accusing the mayor of unfairly maligning...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford predicted she’d be an “unmitigated disaster” as mayor. The National Post ran a headline calling her a “regressive politician who will oversee Toronto’s downfall.” The Financial Post said she’d push Toronto to “poverty and decay.” Former mayoral candidate Mark Saunders characterized her as “an activist, only listening to her special interest groups and the loudest voices.”...
Although fundamentally at odds, antisemites and proud Jewish mothers have one trait in common: both groups love to share news about successful Jewish people. However, where Jewish mothers typically brag about Jews they know personally (their own children for example, or someone else’s children whom they wish their own children to marry), antisemites prefer to talk up Jewish people they’ve...
I hate to do this but please set your mind back to May 2020 — the onset of a deadly global pandemic and the emergence of news headlines like this one: “Can my sourdough starter spread COVID-19?” (The answer: possible but unlikely). Spring of 2020 was horrendous for nearly everyone on earth. But it was a bright spot in the...