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People have good reason to doubt the veracity of campaign promises because they have good, abundant evidence that politicians hardly...
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my time writing this column, it’s that readers, especially those who read...
“A tough but strong decision.”“Put our country first.”
Communication is measured in impact not minutes. But your words will always miss the mark if you don’t watch the...
There’s a moment in every drugstore novel or Hallmark movie where one character whispers tenderly to another, “Don’t change a...
“One day you’re cock of the walk, the next a feather duster.” A politician must have cooked up this brutally...
Just prior to the implosion that rocked global financial markets, Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld assured investors his bank’s liquidity...
Dr. Martin Luther King said the true measure of an individual is not how they behave in moments of comfort...
Imagine the confusion. Toronto’s most labour friendly mayor in recent memory and still — a major strike that would have...
It’s a politico’s axiom that perception is reality. Call it a rudimentary observation in a “post-truth world,” but if it...
If there has even been such a thing as the world’s greatest circus, this is surely it: the trial of...
It’s not rocket science. Ensure families have access to affordable, high-quality child care and guess what? You get drastically better...
Spring has sprung and with it the Liberal government is clearly waking up from a long period of hibernation. The...
Will Rogers has an old joke about Prohibition: “Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything...
It’s said that revision sits at the very heart of great writing. And right now, I feel every beat of...
As much as victory’s highs are as ephemeral as a shooting star, defeat’s bitter sting lingers in a way never...
The battle lines of the 2024 U.S. presidential election are drawn, the ideologies entrenched. To say the electorate's divisions are...
My last column discussed how our abysmal productivity will likely grow problematically acute under a new Trump administration. It really...
Part cliché. Mostly truism. It is said that there are no sure things in politics. But, after his unprecedented victories...
So, which will it be: door No. 1 or door No. 2? The question, of course, is one of the...
All doom and gloom. Or is it? It’s beyond cliché to say that the world – and our country along...
This past week, two developments attracted the nation’s attention. Pierre Poilievre released a 15-minute video on Canada’s “housing hell” that...
My granny, who was the wisest person I knew, always said that if you lived long enough anything can happen...
