Trump’s spectacular comeback was fuelled by America’s angst
Barely two years ago, Donald Trump looked like a spent force. After leading the Republican Party to a midterm-election shellacking...
Konrad Yakabuski
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Mark Carney finally enters Liberal politics – but is he too late?
Timing is everything in politics, and it has never seemed to be Mark Carney’s friend. In 2012, as the former...
The mischievousness in Trudeau’s appointment of Charles Adler to the Senate
Jaws dropped in Ottawa when then-Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper named long-time press-gallery gadfly Mike Duffy to the Senate in...
An EV trade war with China will cost Canadian consumers heavily
Back when she was foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland rarely missed an opportunity to champion the postwar “rules-based international order”...
Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are both playing a dangerous game
The mainstream U.S. media are generally slow on the uptake when it comes to Canada. So, it took them a...
The Federal Court’s decision on Trudeau’s misuse of the Emergencies Act sets the record straight
It is a safe bet that most Canadians were not champing at the bit to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Is Trudeau’s latest vacation scandal a sign he has already checked out?
Colourful Quebec Conservative MP Jacques Gourde came up with a delicious pun to describe the varying explanations given by the...
The next battle for Quebec could be between the Bloc and the Tories
The 4.5 million viewers who tuned into Radio-Canada’s Bye Bye sketch-comedy retrospective on New Year’s Eve and the following day...
The Liberals are running out of time to Poilievre-proof the CBC
On New Year’s Eve, Canada’s public broadcaster offered stay-at-home television viewers a dog’s breakfast that screamed desperation. The CBC blamed...