Fun Quiz! Match the Andrew Coyne Spluttering With the Budget
The following are quotes Andrew Coyne has used to describe the eight federal budgets released between 2010 and 2017. Can you match the splutter with the year? “the budget is bloated, cynical, dirigiste...
View ArticleHow to be controversial in Canada and not lose your job
Prominent pundits across Canada are writing all sorts of stern, thoughtful pieces about Dr. Andrew Potter of the University of McGill at the moment. On March 20, Potter wrote an article for Maclean’s...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with conservatives in Canada: a dialogue
My friend Doug Musk is a Conservative Party member living in a rural part of the Niagara West riding. He and I often have insightful discussions about the future of conservatism in Canada, so I...
View ArticleThe State of the Conservative Leadership Race: a Dialogue
JJ: Hey again Doug, Seeing as how the Tory leadership contest is just a couple weeks away from concluding, I thought it might be fun if we could run through our impressions of some of the candidates....
View ArticleJ.J. and Doug on Andrew Scheer and the Conservative leadership race results
JJ: So Doug, the Conservative Party now has a new leader, and despite the rapid solidification of conventional wisdom over the last couple of weeks, it didn’t wind up being Maxime Bernier. I know you...
View ArticleToronto Star writer busted for plagiarizing Vancouver columnist
On Wednesday, May 24 my friend (and former Sun News colleague) Ada Slivinski, a conservative columnist at the Postmedia-owned Vancouver daily 24 Hours, wrote a piece making the case for online voting,...
View ArticleWhat was Trump’s crime?
The lines separating the legal from the political are increasingly blurred. Policy questions that used to be resolved through political debate are now litigated through the courts, while political...
View ArticleThe same Ontario professor has been quoted in every single story about the...
A case study in lazy journalism Philippe Lagassé is an associate professor at Ottawa’s Carleton university. He is also apparently the only human on the entire planet who has ever studied the Canadian...
View ArticleTrudeau and Khadr
I don’t do editorial cartoons very often these days, but sometimes a story really demands one. The numbers are in, and even Trudeau’s own supporters reject the Khadr deal, by Anthony Furey in the...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s Spotify playlist is not nearly politically correct enough
The CBC informs that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has released his official Prime Minister’s Summer Playlist on Spotify. And I am deeply offended by it. Prime Minister Trudeau’s playlist, while...
View ArticleThe 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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