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Max FawcettThe Walrus |
For many Conservatives in Canada, Trudeau’s belief in a “post-national” future was all the excuse they ever needed to betray their own country.
Among Canadians, nobody is more enthusiastic about abandoning their country to the United States than Conservative Albertans: a recent poll from...
At last, the long national nightmare for Canada’s oil and gas industry is over. It loves to pretend it’s been labouring under the yoke of green...
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of blacktop during his nine-plus years in...
It’s hard to be a climate optimist these days. With Trumpism ascendant in the United States, Pierre Poilievre well on his way to axing the carbon...
When Justin Trudeau took over as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, his job was to rescue it from political oblivion. Two years...
“The greatest happiness,” Genghis Khan famously said, “is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes,...
Blame Canada. That appears to be the logic at work over at Postmedia, where its pundits have clearly picked their side in the battle between Donald...
Climate policy in Canada just got a lot more complicated. With the election of Donald Trump as President and Republicans winning control of both...
For a guy who likes to invoke George Orwell, Pierre Poilievre doesn’t seem to have paid very close attention to what he actually wrote. His...
Canada’s oil and gas industry might be struggling to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but it remains as enthusiastic as ever about recycling....
Jonathan Swift may not have thought much about things like climate change or carbon emissions, but the 17th century Irish satirist definitely could...
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals haven’t technically lost the next election yet. But in the broader battle of ideas, it sure looks like they’ve...
It would be easy to overlook Chris Wright. The fracking company CEO, tapped this week by the Trump administration as its nominee for energy...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House will transform any number of issues here in Canada, from trade and energy to immigration and our...
This was not the election result that most Canadians hoped for. According to a Leger poll taken in late October , 64 per cent of Canadians wanted...
For most Canadians, Remembrance Day is a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of the past and how they helped underwrite much of the freedom and...
As Democrats continue to sift through the ashes of Tuesday’s election, they’ve begun the process of trying to understand what happened to them...
As I write this, America is in the process of deciding who will be its next president. By the time you read it, the answer may already be clear....
Like most governments that are long in the tooth and low in the polls, there aren’t many issues left that look like winners for Justin...
Live by the youth vote, die by the youth vote. That’s been the story of Justin Trudeau’s nine years in power, which began with his party...
America may no longer be the world’s undisputed superpower, but its elections are still the most important moment on the global democratic...
With just a week to go until the United States election and the polls somehow deadlocked between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Canadians are left...
Ontario is a province filled with knowledge-economy workers, post-secondary institutions and other centres of intellectual capital and excellence....
Canada officially has an immigration problem. No, it’s not the one we’ve been hearing about for months now, which the federal government has...
Brent Chapman, the BC Conservative candidate for the riding of Surrey South, once wrote that Palestinians were “inbred walking, talking,...
Who are you going to trust: the Government of Alberta or your lying eyes? That was essentially the message coming from Premier Danielle Smith and...
Sometimes, it’s what you don’t say about something that tells the real story. That seems to be the case with Conservative Party of Canada...
Could more urgent climate coverage save the CBC from a Pierre Poilievre government? That’s the theory that was floated by five of the...
Can Conservative thinkers convince Pierre Poilievre to take climate change seriously? That’s the question that centre-right website The Hub ,...
Chip Wilson might be a billionaire, but he can’t buy himself a clue when it comes to politics. It’s not for a lack of trying: the Lululemon...
If you ran an oil and gas company into the ground while also helping dump hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental liabilities onto the...
Live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory. That seems to be Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s guiding principle right now, as...
You can’t really blame Mark Carney for not taking the plunge into partisan politics just yet. The former Governor of the Bank of Canada’s...
John Rustad was in the midst of a political comeback for the ages, one that saw him kicked out of his old party, take over as leader of a new one...
Danielle Smith’s nearly two years as Alberta’s premier have been a chaotic whirlwind of conspiracy theories, gaslighting, and pandering to the...
There are plenty of reasons why Liberals keep losing byelections in their urban strongholds, from Justin Trudeau’s continued presence as leader...
This is apparently how the carbon tax ends in Canada: not with a bang but a surrender. Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby acknowledged his...
When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found their answer to Justin Trudeau. As...
When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found their answer to Justin Trudeau. As...
For as long as it’s been in conflict with America and its democratic allies, Russia has tried to defeat them from within. It used any number of...
When Pierre Trudeau decided it was time to leave back in 1984, he took a walk in the snow. At the rate things are going for Justin Trudeau, that’s...
Just a few thousand votes in a handful of suburban Calgary ridings decided the last Alberta election. With the Alberta NDP now led by former...
He finally did it. After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound his party to the federal Liberal...