Mark Carney is offering voters the other guy’s ideas, without the other guy
If the last near-decade has proven any adage true, it’s that the Liberals are terrible at governing, but exceptional at...
Robyn Urback
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Pierre Poilievre’s strength is as an attack dog. But he’s growling against the wrong target
A moment of silence, please, for the devastating loss that the Conservative Party of Canada still hasn’t fully recognized –...
Infection point: How vaccine mandates killed the Justin Trudeau brand
Two different Justin Trudeaus stood outside Rideau Cottage nearly five years apart, each version of the Prime Minister delivering an...
Society’s brainworms have gotten so bad, we can’t even recognize a swastika as a hate symbol
Shopify, the Ottawa-based multinational e-commerce company, was faced with a dilemma this week: One of its customers was selling T-shirts...
Chrystia Freeland pitches Trump’s animosity for her as her strength. It’s her incorrigible weakness
“I want to let you in on a little secret,” says Chrystia Freeland in her video pitch to become the...
How we went from Trudeaumania 2.0 to a resignation at Rideau Cottage
It’s difficult to recall, watching a defeated man finally yield to his fate outside Rideau Cottage this week, just how...
Conservatives give into their worst impulses with their ‘Wacko’ movie on Trudeau
Credit to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has, in a small way, taken action against youth unemployment even before he...
Good news, Canada! The economy is great, it’s just your ‘vibes’ that are bad
It seemed like the Liberals had tried just about everything to resuscitate their dwindling support among Canadians, but Finance Minister...
The Randy Boissonnault scandal has become a clown show
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault is the current Most Problematic Minister in the Liberal cabinet. It’s a floating title – sort...
In preparation for Trump 2.0, Ottawa must broadcast that our border is closed
U.S. President Joe Biden did Canada a solid back in 2023, when his government agreed to new terms on the...
Donald Trump, Mr. Invincible, has triumphed once again
Donald Trump has lived his life with a horseshoe in his sphincter and a different set of rules. He was...
Justin Trudeau is spoiling for a fight, even if it means taking his party down with him
Pity Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who can’t so much as order a coffee in Ottawa Centre without being asked, “Cream...
Pierre Poilievre, champion of the little guy, just voted to hurt young workers
Back in 2012, a young Pierre Poilievre, who was parliamentary secretary to the minister of transport in Stephen Harper’s government...
Jagmeet Singh to NDP caucus: We’ve accomplished basically nothing, so our work here is done
Friends, brothers, sisters and donors (yes, both of you): We did it. It has been a long 2½ years: 2½...
Misuse of the temporary foreign worker program is a business racket
Standing by a lectern with a sign that read “Bring Home Our Jobs,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had words for...
The appalling homophobic attack in Canada you didn’t hear about
It’s been six weeks since a brazen, allegedly bigoted attack took place on the street in a major Canadian city...
Is it fair that some female athletes are born with male traits? No. But it wouldn’t be fair to disqualify them either
Eero Mäntyranta was a seven-time Finnish Olympic medalist with a genetic advantage. That wasn’t known in the 1960s, when he...
Why ‘weird’ is the perfect, pernicious political attack against Republicans
Hillary Clinton tried all sorts of acrimonious attacks against Donald Trump when the two were vying for the White House...
Trump’s first term was a warning for Canada. We didn’t heed it
The U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden last month was a genuinely frightening spectacle. At one lectern...
Striking LCBO workers are making Doug Ford’s case for him
The very first government-run liquor stores opened in Ontario nearly 100 years ago, garnering huge fanfare, hours-long lines and a...
Harjit Sajjan will remain in cabinet, and shame on you for asking about it
One thing that Canadians have learned over the course of the past nine years is that, in this government, there...
Anthony Housefather can best represent Canadian Jews by walking away from the Liberals
For the past six or so months, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather has been an accidental maverick in his own party...
Pierre Poilievre can prove he’s a grown-up and read the NSICOP report. But what would be the point?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has every partisan political reason to resist calls to read the classified version of the watchdog...
Canada should give doctors every incentive to stay. By hiking capital gains, it’s doing the opposite
There is one very good reason why the Liberals could not entertain the request from Canadian doctors for a carveout...
If the Conservatives have a ‘hidden agenda’ on abortion, it’s a mess
Canadians who are staunchly pro-choice should listen to Conservative MP Arnold Viersen’s appearance on Uncommons, a podcast run and hosted...
Blaine Higgs is livid about teens learning about sex. Does he know they listen to rock, too?
A moment, please, for the pure souls in New Brunswick high schools whose innocence has been siphoned away by the...
Beverley McLachlin’s continued tenure on Hong Kong’s court is an ongoing disgrace
Beverley McLachlin has spent the past six years servicing the reputation of Hong Kong’s top court, while destroying the one...
‘Useless and overpaid’ lobbyists sure are keeping Pierre Poilievre’s calendar busy
I’m not sure why Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote an entire op-ed in the National Post urging Canadian businesses to...
Of course the keffiyeh is political. But it still shouldn’t be banned from Ontario’s legislature
Unless I misread their biographies, I don’t believe NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam and Joel Harden trace their lineage to the...
Jews have eyes. And they see that the antisemitism in the protests over Gaza is no aberration
There is a point at which the gaslighting becomes genuinely insulting. When meek attempts to blame a rogue few for...
The failure of Canada’s health care system is a disgrace – and a deadly one
What can be said about Canada’s health care system that hasn’t been said countless times over, as we watch more...
According to Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is fear-mongering on immigration
Someone, somewhere, appears to have taken a blowtorch to Canada’s immigration system. It’s a mess. We have too many people...
Pierre Poilievre wants big government to protect kids from porn
Mr. Freedom’s war against the gatekeepers apparently comes with a few stipulations. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who is currently railing...
Jagmeet Singh is super serious this time
Pity Jagmeet Singh’s communications staff, constantly tasked with finding new language for the same empty threat the NDP Leader has...
No, for sure, I believe Justin Trudeau is the right leader for the Liberals
No one should listen to Newfoundland MP Ken McDonald, who said in an interview with Radio-Canada last month that Prime...