The State of the Canadian Left: a dialogue
This is the fourth in a serious of dialogues on Canadian politics between me, J.J. McCullough, resident of Coquitlam, B.C., and my friend Doug Musk, resident of Beamsville, Ontario. Check out our...
View ArticleI love America
Ezra Levant’s renunciation of the alt-right (a popular activity at the moment) has been predictably scorned as disingenuous, but one passage struck me as entirely believable: “When I first heard of the...
View ArticleThe Troubling State of Canadian Politics in Late 2017: a dialogue
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau This is the fifth in a series of dialogues on Canadian politics between me, J.J. McCullough, resident of Coquitlam, B.C., and my...
View ArticleCanada Chat podcast
So after a fairly inconspicuous “soft launch” in which I released, but didn’t really promote my new podcast (it took time to sort out the kinks), take this as the formal announcement. I’ve made a...
View ArticlePatrick Brown’s fall was inevitable, not a “witch hunt”
I’m a conservative pundit in a country that doesn’t have a lot of them, so it’s been easy for me to cultivate friends and sources — often very high-ranking ones — in Canada’s federal and provincial...
View ArticleHere are some actual facts about those Obama portraits
A portrait of President Obama in the National Portrait Gallery. Paintings of President and Mrs. Obama were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday morning, and the press and social media...
View ArticleTrump Timeline
In 2017, I tried to keep a daily timeline of every sensational and/or breathless headline/prediction that was published about Donald Trump’s presidency in the hope that someday it might become an...
View ArticleDonations reveal partisan loyalties in Canada
This week, the National Post released a remarkable new feature on their website that lets you easily see who has given money to provincial and federal political parties in Canada, with data that...
View ArticleFor Posterity: Predictions for the June, 7 2018 Ontario election
This post was made on June 7, 2018 at 9:23 PST Note: 63 seats is required for a majority government. CBC Poll Tracker (Eric Grenier) “89.7% Probability of the Progressive Conservatives winning a...
View Article10 times the Globe and Mail editorial page has expressed an absurdly inflated...
1. “How Canada can help lead the way to better global health” (2016) Summary: Canada can improve global health outcomes by telling other countries what to do. 2. “How Canada can become a global...
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