Who’s Tory now?
You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. In Canada, it is blowing right...
Susan Riley
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Trump is coming: quick, build a pipeline!
Donald Trump is an all-purpose distraction, a threat on so many fronts, that concern about climate has been temporarily pushed...
The battle to be Canada’s flag-bearer
Canadians will continue to boycott U.S. products, cancel trips down south, drop Netflix, Amazon, and Apple TV subscriptions, and wait...
Are we happy? Are we supposed to be?
There are so many gloomy headlines these days—hysterical claims of economic peril from certain premiers, legitimate concern over Donald Trump’s...
Breaking: the CBC and our link to public broadcasting?
It will take more than nostalgia and ideology to save the CBC, notwithstanding its rich archive and historic importance as...
Trump, Trudeau and an ominous thunder
Two terrible events happened last week, but one is worse. First, of course, Donald Trump was re-elected president of the...
Can we talk about Poilievre? Whether his harshness is impulsive or strategic, it’s invidious
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is the latest public figure to face Pierre Poilievre’s lacerating criticism. Last week, on the...
Trade policy: where ideological purity goes to die
At a critical moment for the economy and the environment, the Trudeau government has been facing an impossible choice. It...
Pumping more oil while the house burns down: how long will the fantasy last?
You really wonder what it’s going to take to shake us from our willful blindness. Our forests and communities burn...
Who will be left standing in an uncertain political moment?
The failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a weekend rally has added even more uncertainty to a tumultuous political...
Happy Canada Day, everyone! Or is it?
This will certainly be a happy day for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose long campaign to become prime minister looks...
Colonel Mustard with the knife in the Constituency? Maybe not
It has been like a long-playing Netflix series—alternately alarming, puzzling and ludicrous—but the great Foreign Intervention Scandal skidded to a...
Workin’ 9 to 5, that’s no way to make a livin’
The stereotypical “Ottawa” bureaucrat arouses as much sympathy with the public at large as a billionaire grocery exec whose yacht...
First they came for the carbon tax, are electric vehicles next?
Perhaps slowing sales of electric vehicles in Canada, industry caution, and political wobbles are a temporary phenomenon, prompted by the...
How to navigate post-fact politics: skeptically, but attentively
Anyone looking for evidence that we live in a post-policy, post-fact, increasingly incoherent political moment only needs to look at...
There are signs of resistance to the right-wing juggernaut, if you look hard enough
Lurking somewhere between despair and denial, you can spot tiny glimmers of hope for non-Conservative voters in this country—in what...
‘Baby-steps’ pharmacare a test of our humanity and of our political leaders
The recent announcement of the first baby steps towards a national pharmacare program was met with disdainful sniffs from some...
A rapidly changing climate and a glaring political disconnect
A block or so from Parliament Hill, Ottawa’s fabled Rideau Canal Skateway has been closed for most of this mild...
For climate progress, maybe the rest of Canada should join Quebec
At a Quebec all-seasons park, more than 100 kilometres north of both Ottawa and Montreal, there is an unexpected amenity...
Will Trudeau’s third act include a surprise ending?
Will Trudeau’s third act include a surprise ending? And will anyone be watching? Today, the curtain goes up on Ottawa’s...
Oil and gas industry’s fancy foot-dragging wins the day, again
It has been a splendid couple of weeks for the oil and gas industry. Over the decades, it has gone...