While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Robin Baranyai.
It’s hard to pin a simple description on Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has devoted much of his career to public service without holding public office, and is now running his first election campaign. One word that seems to be sticking is “technocrat.” With respect to my media colleagues, we should un-stick it. Admittedly, it’s usually a compliment. In the...
Everyone loves a quiz. It’s diverting to test your knowledge of the headlines, or venture an educated guess about who said what. During the past decade, the who-said-it format has coalesced around one figure in particular, with quiz topics such as: “Boris Johnson or Donald Trump?” (Globe and Mail); “Donald Trump or Stephen Colbert?” (Washington Post); and “Trump or a...
A recent spate of commentary is drawing parallels between Canadian rumblings for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step aside as head of the Liberal Party, and calls for U.S. President Joe Biden to take himself off the Democratic ticket. The comparison is inapt, but understandable. Both leaders have stated their intention to run again, and face queasy dissent within party...
Now that we’ve been there, done that and possibly bought the T-shirt, can we all agree to retire “wacko” from the spotlight? It’s an odd little throwback of a word: a schoolyard taunt; a synonym of cuckoo, loony, or a silent finger twirled around a temple.