Carney and Freeland are right about the Trump threat. But I’m getting worried our next PM has no real plan
The international order is crumbling. Canada is facing an existential threat. Our closest ally says it wants to conquer us...
Justin Ling
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Please: Anyone but Doug Ford
“Doug Ford here,” the Progressive Conservative leader texted me recently. “I will stand up and fight US tariffs to save...
Foreign countries aren’t undermining trust in Canada. Our own politicians are
“Trust in Canada’s democratic institutions has been shaken, and it is imperative to restore it,” Justice Marie-Josée Hogue writes. “This...
A distracted Canadian government shouldn’t forget about this giant foe
You can tell a lot about the value of a democratic movement based on how hard the despots work to...
Canada doesn’t just need a new government. It needs new political parties
When members of the Reform Party met in Ottawa in 1999, they didn’t agree on much. But when the party’s...
Trudeau’s Long Premiership Was Hollow at the Core
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, dean of the G-7, has outlived a lot. His tenure has coincided with the terms...
In one of his final acts, Justin Trudeau showed Canadians he’s become what he once fought against
Canadians do not want “a government that suspended work when the going got tough,” Justin Trudeau once proclaimed. On Monday...
The joke is over for the leader of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada
Canada’s most ambitious and principled progressive politician has announced his resignation. His departure was not prompted by a confidence vote...
This new Liberal minister has a tiny window of time to ease the housing crisis. He just might do it
For years, a metaphysical question has hung over Ottawa: Who, exactly, is Nathaniel Erskine-Smith? He’s the 40-year-old three-term backbench Member...
How Trudeau turned Canadian Diplomacy into a Spectator Sport
IN NOVEMBER OF last year, I reached out to foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly’s office with a question. The prime...
It’s time for the cowardly lions in the Liberal caucus to stand up and be heard
Another by-election, another massive defeat for the governing Liberals. On Monday night, it was citizens in Cloverdale—Langley City, in Metro...
Chrystia Freeland’s exit seals it: Justin Trudeau’s government is falling apart
With the exit of its most senior minister and most prominent rising star, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has finally...
Canada is dangerously polarized. We can’t solve the problem in court
Not long before he died, Gilbert Baker had a disquieting realization. “China produces more rainbow flags than anyone,” he told...
For Mélanie Joly’s sake and ours, Canada needs a new foreign minister
It was in a high school gymnasium in Missouri that Winston Churchill first warned of an “iron curtain” descending across...
No, Pierre Poilievre, Justin Trudeau isn’t forcing us to eat bugs
Even after trying the delicious cricket Bolognese, I was skeptical of the cricket hot dog. Rightly so: It sure tasted...
There’s one lesson the Trudeau Liberals must learn from Trump’s victory
Standing on the lawn of Howard University in Washington, D.C on Wednesday, listening to Vice President Kamala Harris deliver her...
Trump can do no wrong. Anger is a virtue. This is the version of reality American voters accepted
“I’m mad as hell,” proclaims Howard Beale, protagonist of the 1976 film “Network,” “and I’m not going to take it...
This mega-project could be Canada’s next great nation-building exercise
“For many people these days, it’s unclear from which tributary of history we have sprung, in which world we now...
This man knows how to solve Canada’s extremism problem. Why aren’t we guaranteeing him the resources he needs?
David O’Brien is used to dealing with neo-Nazis. He’s grown accustomed to handling those recruited by the Islamic State. His...
‘We got outgunned:’ The inside story of how Justin Trudeau lost the battle over his most important climate plan
“When it starts to fall apart,” Gord Downie once sang. “Man, it really falls apart.” Canada’s once-lauded carbon pricing program...
Liberal MPs, it’s time to stage an intervention
A disquieting reality is sinking in for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s caucus: It’s just not working anymore. It’s a case...
Canada’s conservative philosopher king is painfully verbose and deceptively shallow. He could teach the ‘scoldy left’ a thing or two
Bring me a “dispassionate” climate scientist, Jordan B. Peterson said, one not possessed by “the hangover of the antihuman, Malthusian...
Justin Trudeau’s ‘relentless and insufferable’ optimism no longer matches the national mood. Could another byelection loss be enough to push him out for good?
There is certainly a vibe on the campaign trail in Montreal, Craig Sauvé told me this week: Rage. When I...
We’re terrible at talking about the Israel-Hamas conflict. I tried to figure out why.
Earlier this month, Ottawa’s Pride festival put out a statement that denounced, in “solidarity with Palestine,” the “ongoing genocide” in...
The brain-wormed fantasies of Elon Musk’s Twitter graveyard keep seeping into real life. It’s clear who wears the blame
Three years ago, a user named IlluminatiPirate posted an all-encompassing, utterly deranged theory of the internet on an obscure, retro-looking...
Shadow Government: The Consulting Firms Telling Ottawa What to Do
AT SOME POINT over the past decade in Canada, McKinsey & Company became the North Star for how to fix...
Justin Trudeau tried to save journalism. This is why he failed
Over the past nine years, the Trudeau government has papered over the cracks in our ailing news industry. It has...
Thank goodness Donald Trump survived. Now let’s get back to defending democracy
Last year, far-right broadcaster Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump an unnerving question: “Do you think we’re moving toward civil war?”...
Queer rights are in danger in Canada. Pierre Poilievre owns some of the blame
For years, Ipsos has been asking individuals around the world for their opinions on Queer people. And for years, the...
I know the inside story of the Liberal revolt against Justin Trudeau. How? I overheard it in a train station
Steven Guilbeault has been taking the temperature of the Liberal Party caucus as calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation...
Justin Trudeau is getting crushed by a mess of his own making
When voters stepped into polling booths across midtown Toronto Monday, they were confronted with a scroll of a ballot: 8...
“It’s bull——:” How Ottawa insiders really feel about Justin Trudeau’s handling of the foreign interference probe
Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of...
We were too quick to reject the ‘lab leaks’ theory. But we shouldn’t be quick to embrace it, either
Scientists didn’t crack the whodunnit quickly. For years they didn’t know where the virus came from, how it leapt to...
I asked Justin Trudeau’s Liberals why they broke a promise to ban three controversial police practices. Their answer says a lot
In 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, desperately clinging to a minority government in an election they didn’t have to call...
Here’s what I learned from my conversation with Justin Trudeau: There’s only one way to fix Canada and everyone is going to hate it
I was not a big believer in re-opening the constitution, until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convinced me otherwise. It’s not...
Justin Trudeau’s Last Stand
In an exclusive interview, a confident prime minister addresses his doubters. INSIDE THE Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Prime Minister...