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I wish there was a word in the English language for something at once deeply consequential and profoundly silly. I don’t know how else to describe what’s going on in Alberta right now. It’s a national unity crisis and it’s incredibly stupid. It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious — like a pratfall in a clown car driving...
On January 7, one day after Justin Trudeau announced his plan to resign as prime minster, Donald Trump, then two weeks out from his second inauguration, spoke to reporters in Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, and accidentally set the tone for the coming Canadian election campaign.
If Pierre Poilievre was a hockey player instead of a politician, he’d be a pest — the kind of guy you hate to play against but love to have on your team. He’d be Sean Avery or Brad Marchand: making life miserable for the other team’s best player while driving opposing fans up the wall. He would, in other words...
It was Monday morning and Jagmeet Singh, once the most electric prospect in Canadian politics, was standing on a balcony in downtown Toronto trying to be heard over the roaring whoosh of a gardener’s leaf blower across the road. “You’re trailing far behind the Liberals and the Conservatives in the polls,” a reporter asked the NDP leader. WAAAHHH, went the...
It can be easy to forget, following the news, that Mark Carney, the leader of the Liberal party and the odds-on favourite to win the 2025 federal election, has never done this before. He has never won a local council race. He didn’t serve on his school board. He isn’t a sitting MP. Carney’s resume outside of politics is unimpeachable...
For years before Donald Trump wormed his way back into the U.S. presidency, forcing the entire world, including, and perhaps especially, Canada, to refocus on his mush-brained threats, a single issue dominated Canadian politics: Housing. By the beginning of last year, just about everyone of any political stripe in this country agreed the housing market was out of control. There...
On April 30, 1986, 39 years before Edmonton’s Mark Carney became the leader of the Liberal Party and Canada’s prime minister-in-waiting, his beloved Edmonton Oilers lost the most emotionally devastating hockey game in Canadian history. Many believed the 1985-86 Oilers were the best hockey team in history. They were, by some margin, the favourites to win a third consecutive Stanley...
Last November, about a week after I returned from covering the second election of Donald Trump, I went to a performance of the National Ballet of Canada, at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto. I was having a difficult time that week. Like the rest of the world, I had spent much of the past nine years thinking about Trump...
If you had somehow watched the forty or so minutes Kamala Harris spoke Tuesday night during her debate with Donald Trump in isolation, if you had carved them out and watched them back-to-back-to-back without interruption, you could have convinced yourself, at least briefly, that this was a very normal campaign.
There was only one thing Donald Trump could do Thursday night to truly shock the world. He had presided all week over the most ebullient Republican convention in 40 years. His opponents were in complete disarray. He had even survived an assassin’s bullet. He was all set up for the most triumphant moment of his political career. And then he...