Stephen Marche

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Canadians know we need to turn away from America. How might that actually work?

Canadians know we need to turn away from America. How might that actually work?

Canadians know that we need less America in our lives. In a recent poll for CNN, ninety one per cent of Canadians agreed that they wanted “to reduce their reliance on the U.S. as a trading partner.” In polling terms, that’s as close as you’ll ever find to unanimity. Later this month, we are promised, insofar as promises mean anything...

The revenge tragedy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk

The revenge tragedy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk

“This is going to be great television,” Donald Trump said after the humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office a few months ago. That line has been the key to understanding the workings of the U.S. president’s second administration. Trump is an entertainer, and his government, run by Fox News talking heads and C-list celebrities, operates on the logic...

Anywhere in the world ought to be proud to have produced Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney. Not Alberta

Anywhere in the world ought to be proud to have produced Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney. Not Alberta

If you want to make me angry, call me an Ontarian. Though I have lived in Toronto, off and on, for nearly 30 years, I remain an Albertan, an Albertan who doesn’t live there but an Albertan nonetheless. The next prime minister of Canada, whether it’s Chrystia Freeland or Mark Carney, will share my quasi-identity, which possesses not even a...

Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World

Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World

Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin Trudeau, one of the world’s great progressive leaders, may be heading toward that moment. In a recent interview he acknowledged that every day he considers leaving his “crazy job” as Canada’s prime minister. Increasingly, the question is not if he...