This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 19, 2019. When Justin Trudeau took the stage in October 2015 to celebrate the Liberals’ majority victory, he spoke of his party’s “positive vision,” for Canada. Their campaign, he said, had “defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less, that good enough […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 12, 2019. Another year, yet another unsuccessful highly public prosecution. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors announced a stay of charges against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, ending a four-year circus that took an untold toll on the reputation, finances and family of a career public servant with […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 5, 2019. In the cut and thrust of the increasingly divisive and polarizing way politics are being practiced today, one of the most worrisome developments is the loss of the bully pulpit. In some ways an old-fashioned notion, today’s practitioners seem to have forgotten […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 28, 2019. Each new provincial election brings more evidence that the wave of conservative victories across the country is turning into a tsunami. And with that, the inescapable conclusion that the Liberal brand is, if not in crisis, certainly not what it was on […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, April 21, 2019. Just as it is for most people who do what I do for a living, our office is littered with television monitors tuned to a variety of news channels from around the world. And like it is for most of us, we […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday April 14, 2019. Among watchers of the Trump White House, it has become this season’s party game to speculate whether the latest reason for outrage will be the final straw in this quixotic presidency — something akin in significance to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, or […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday April 7, 2019. As the clock ticked past 50 days of the SNC-Lavalin omnishambles, the endgame finally came into focus when Jody Wilson-Raybould and Dr. Jane Philpott were ejected from the Liberal caucus on Tuesday. With the federal election not just on the horizon but […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday March 31, 2019. Although it may feel like ancient history, and remembered about as clearly, it was just last week that Finance Minister Bill Morneau introduced the Liberal’s final, pre-election budget, a 460-page basket of goodies titled “Investing in the Middle Class.” A government’s last […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday March 24, 2019. You might think a province that can count the number of changes in government in its history on one hand would be one where predicting election outcomes would be easy. But if there is one thing the last three Alberta elections have taught […]
This piece originally appeared in the Toronto Star on March 17, 2019. Despite the conclusions you might draw from an “if it bleeds, it leads” approach to media coverage, there has never been a safer time to fly. What’s more, the objective truth is that commercial aviation is, by far, our safest form of transit. […]