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Stephen Harper’s majority rules
Fred Chartrand/CP In the early morning hours of May 3, with the ballots almost all counted, he basked in a Conservative majority. The Liberal Party of Canada, his nemesis, was in shambles. The Bloc...
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The last Liberal standing in Manitoba
Trevor Hagan/CP Jon Gerrard looks down at his mushroom crepes and sighs. It’s not that breakfast isn’t to his liking, just the discussion accompanying it: the painful, post-mortem examination of an...
View ArticleBob Rae surpasses Nycole Turmel for second place in Nanos leadership poll
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae has surpassed the NDP’s Nycole Turmel in voters’ perceptions of trustworthiness, competence and vision, according to a new Nanos poll. At the same time, the poll shows...
View ArticleUBC’s Richard Johnston on a polarizing political year
Richard Johnston, Canada research chair in public opinion, elections and representation at University of British Columbia, is a leading expert on how democracy works in Canada and abroad. He is...
View ArticleDear Michael Moore: Leave Canada alone
Remember when Michael Moore was cool? That’s right: So was Coldplay. And the Leafs still made the playoffs. Oh how times have changed. Not Moore though… In perfect American fashion—the kind of cocky,...
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‘While the Men Watch’ recap
“We naturally started decoding the rules of the game.” That’s what Lena Sutherland and Jules Mancuso–co-hosts of the highly polarizing, “female friendly”, hockey broadcast While the Men Watch–revealed...
View Article10 thoughts on Bev Oda
Who’s saying what about Bev Oda in the morning’s papers: 1. “Under Bev’s guidance, Canada has led a significant initiative to save the lives of mothers, children and newborns in the developing world....
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Dalton McGuinty’s resignation leaves much unresolved, including his future
Chris Young If Halloween had been any closer, they might have thought they’d been pranked. The 53 Liberal MPPs had been summoned to a hastily assembled caucus meeting at a stuffy room in Toronto’s...
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Why the Senate should be abolished
Let’s begin with a trivia question for constitutional experts: name all the federal states worldwide with a single, or unicameral, legislature. It’s commonly held that federations—countries marked by...
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Justin Trudeau’s other opponent
Photograph by Adam Scotti The House of Commons is laid out to create confrontations, classically a prime minister and an opposition leader glaring at one another across the wide centre aisle. So when...
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Justin Trudeau’s feminine mystique
Mike Choi; Chris Young/CP; John Kenney/Montreal Gazette/CP Those early Conservative attack ads against Justin Trudeau are being widely interpreted as not-so-subtly casting doubt on the new Liberal...
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How do we fix our parliamentary problem? Just look down under.
Scott Barbour/Getty Images You can make a long list of things that Canada and Australia have in common. Both countries share colonial histories and federal systems. Both are small, open economies...
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Maclean’s preview: How Justin Trudeau would run this country
A digital edition of this week’s issue is available free if you follow this link. On Tuesday morning in a near-empty café at Toronto’s Bell Lightbox building on King Street, I interviewed Justin...
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Interview: Justin Trudeau on elections, terrorism, taxes
Justin Trudeau announces his plan to reform Canadian democracy. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Justin Trudeau hasn’t had a great spring. After he won the Liberal leadership in 2013, Trudeau lifted...
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In praise of partisan politicians
Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose is receives applause during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP) “It’s been 25 minutes and the sunny ways are...
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The real problem with politicians’ vacation time? Not enough of it.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, left, announces that Halifax will be a 2017 Tall Ships Regatta venue coinciding with the province’s Canada 150 celebration during a press conference on the...
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Justin Trudeau’s fall agenda: Big files and economic worries
Justin Trudeau last fall after winning the federal election. (Adrian Wyld/CP) The fall return of Parliament always puts Ottawa in a back-to-school frame of mind. Like kids tidying the contents of their...
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Canadian politics 2016: The year in 12 chapters
How many overseas trips did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take in 2016 (leaving aside his five jaunts to the United States)? How many MPs sat on the special committee on electoral reform, whose work...
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Talking ‘Islamophobia’ with Liberal MP Joël Lightbound
Thousands of Canadians took part in a massive protest against President Trump’s travel ban on Muslims during the National Day of Action against Islamophobia and White Supremacy in downtown Toronto,...
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Can Bill Morneau claim his share of the spotlight?
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau participates in a Q&A session at the Public Policy Forum’s Growth Summit on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 in Ottawa. (Justin Tang/CP) Less than a week before Finance...
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