Lisa Van Dusen

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Sane, Grown-Up, Non-Combustible: Is Mark Carney the Antitrump?

Sane, Grown-Up, Non-Combustible: Is Mark Carney the Antitrump?

With a pre-emptive disclaimer covering all the inbound exceptions that make the rule, most election campaigns are about two things...

The Road to Kananaskis: Making the G6 Great Again?

The Road to Kananaskis: Making the G6 Great Again?

In a recent Policy Q & A, Peter Boehm, the independent Canadian senator, six-time G7 Sherpa and former career diplomat...

The Big Lie at the Heart of Trump’s Designs on Canada

The Big Lie at the Heart of Trump’s Designs on Canada

As much as America’s political pendulum swing from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and back again may prove to be...

Freeland, Carney and the Politics of Economics

Freeland, Carney and the Politics of Economics

Of all the things that Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney have in common, their crucial shared quality for both the...

Welcome to 2025, Year of The Golden Godzilla

Welcome to 2025, Year of The Golden Godzilla

Of all the anticipatory-anxiety activating appointments Donald Trump made in the waning days of the year when — per instant...

The Day the Impossible Became Possible: In Syria, the End of Two Eras

The Day the Impossible Became Possible: In Syria, the End of Two Eras

As the world processes the end of the Assad regime and the departure of its brutal dynastic scion, Bashar al-Assad...

Five Years After the Outbreak, Chaos is the New COVID

Five Years After the Outbreak, Chaos is the New COVID

On December 1st, 2019, the first laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 was diagnosed in Wuhan, China. By December 8th, 41 people...

Trump, CUSMA, and Our Current Unpleasantness

Trump, CUSMA, and Our Current Unpleasantness

You know that a story has all the makings of an economic-crisis catalyst when the Globe and Mail runs 1...

Back to the Future: The Predictable Return of Donald Trump

Back to the Future: The Predictable Return of Donald Trump

To anyone who has ever covered a U.S. presidential election, one of the most serious indications that the one that...

Your Presidential Election Gaslighting-to-English Translation Guide

Your Presidential Election Gaslighting-to-English Translation Guide

While it may not necessarily seem like it now, with all the usual stylings of narrative warfare and performative propaganda...

An Extraordinary Debate for an Extraordinary Campaign

An Extraordinary Debate for an Extraordinary Campaign

In the Before Times, when American politics had not yet been repurposed as aversion therapy for troublesome democracy romantics in...

Why ‘Freedom’ Matters: The Harris Campaign’s Double-Down on Democracy

Why ‘Freedom’ Matters: The Harris Campaign’s Double-Down on Democracy

On August 1st, as Vladimir Kara-Murza’s plane was lifting off from Moscow following a sequence of events he’d been sure...

Harris vs. Trump and the (Joyful) Revenge of Reality

Harris vs. Trump and the (Joyful) Revenge of Reality

Contrast is a key ingredient of any election campaign, and in US presidential campaigns is always especially pronounced. In a...

The Anti-Weird Choice: Why Harris Picked Walz

The Anti-Weird Choice: Why Harris Picked Walz

In an American presidential campaign that has already been unprecedented as a race in which the Republican candidate is a...

Why is this Woman Laughing? Kamala Harris, Seriously Happy Warrior

Why is this Woman Laughing? Kamala Harris, Seriously Happy Warrior

As a notorious fan of Venn diagrams, Kamala Harris has surely contemplated the Venn overlap that has framed her friendship...

Biden’s Parting Gift to Democrats: The Chance to Prove They’re the Sane Alternative

Biden’s Parting Gift to Democrats: The Chance to Prove They’re the Sane Alternative

The momentousness of Joe Biden’s decision Sunday to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election was not lost on anyone. For...

Trump Guilty on All Counts: What Next, Order or Chaos?

Trump Guilty on All Counts: What Next, Order or Chaos?

With Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts by a Manhattan jury on Thursday, the election campaign in which Mr...

Narrative vs. ‘Narrative’ in the 2024 Presidential Campaign

Narrative vs. ‘Narrative’ in the 2024 Presidential Campaign

As voting got underway for the 2024 Republican US presidential nomination amid the Iowan pathetic fallacy of suitably, brutally bitter...