This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, January 19, 2020. For the last 66 years, Queen Elizabeth has skilfully walked the tight rope between being a bulwark of tradition, keeping things more or less as they have always been and skilfully adjusting as England and the world spun forward around her. Nothing was ever […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, January 12, 2020. Over the past week, the world has watched, slack-jawed, as Western relations with Iran have slid precipitously from uneasy détente to open military engagement. Canadians, in particular, were stunned by the horrific deaths of our compatriots, shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. As […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, December 15, 2019. Most underrated politician of 2019: Only one federal party leader managed to unambiguously improve their party’s lot in the last election: Yves-Francois Blanchet revived the Bloc Québécois with a sharply executed pivot from sovereignty to nationalism. The fifth Bloc leader since 2015, he turned in a tight, […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, December 8, 2019. On Wednesday, video emerged of Justin Trudeau, accompanied by a group of world leaders at a NATO summit in London, poking fun at President Donald Trump. In the video, the prime minister made a jibe about Trump’s penchant for impromptu press conferences and his […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, November 24, 2019. Following months of political upheaval and uncertainty surrounding the future of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ten-year dominance of national politics, Israel is now careening towards its third election in a year. After calling early elections in the spring, Netanyahu’s Likud Party was able to […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, November 24, 2019. Dear Ms Freeland, When you were sworn in as minister of international trade in 2015, there was no way we could have known that Donald Trump would become president, nor the challenges he would bring to our bilateral relationship. No one could have predicted […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, November 17, 2019. On Wednesday, the first public hearings began in an impeachment process that seems to have been crafted for our era of reality television. Watching the testimonies of Bill Taylor, George Kent and Marie Yovanovitch, I was struck by the soap-opera nature of the hearings. […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, November 10, 2019. Since the launch of the federal election, which feels like an eternity ago, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has been dogged by variations on the same question: Will you attend a Pride parade? Do you believe homosexuality is a sin? Why did you compare equal […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, November 3, 2019. This week saw Toronto City Council endorse, by a wide margin, a new transit plan proposed by the Ford government. Federal support is expected soon to follow. This is good news for the residents of Toronto — but also for the Premier’s Office, a […]
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, October 27, 2019. So, just what happened on Monday night and how did we end up with the most divided and regionalized Parliament we have seen in recent memory? In my view, it was the utterly predictable outcome of the campaign our leaders chose to run. The […]