Incumbent politicians and political parties, that is. The year 2024 was the worst year ever – ever – for incumbents, the political scientists tell us. Either they all lost ground, or they plain old ...

The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, so many years ago, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true – if it was more than record company ...

The thing you need to understand about Justin Trudeau is that he doesn’t live a life like you and I do. It’s like he’s David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth – impossibly good-looking ...

Forty-seven years ago tonight, the Social Blemishes – me, Ras Pierre, Rockin’ Al and a few others miscreants – took to the makeshift stage in the gym at Bishop Carroll High School in Calgary for the ...

B’nai Brith appealed the decision to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. To support the appeal, B’nai Brith has organized a joint statement backed by a wide range of supporters from ...

When Finance Minister John Turner broke with Pierre Trudeau, he left Ottawa and returned to a top-rung Bay Street law firm (where I was, full disclosure, a partner). He returned to run for the Liberal ...

Donald Trump is there. He’s the schoolyard bully.  He calls the other kids names, he threatens them, he pushes them around. Sometimes, he even hits them, for no apparent reason. Other kids are in the ...

Why do so many think democracy is eternal? Why do they think we are in an enlightened age? It isn’t. We aren’t.

President-elect Donald Trump may call it a “tariff,” but essentially that is what he is promising to impose on his first day in office: a tax. “Tariff” comes from a Turkish word meaning “prices.” So, ...