So, now, when it comes to world affairs, Canada is a season’s ticket holder in the nosebleed seats. Holding up homemade signs, hollering, hoping to get on TV, while the real action is playing out ...

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Antisemitism – Jew hatred – has metastasized like a virus within this country. The statistics do not lie. Wherever one looks in Canada, these days, antisemitism can be seen. In our streets, on our ...

My Mom, Lorna Emma Bridget Cleary Kinsella, coached me and my brothers through all of our lives, too, until we grew up and moved away. Despite the distance, she remained the bond that kept us all ...

KINSELLA, Lorna Emma Bridget. Artist, loving mother, grandmother and wife. Born in Montreal, July 7, 1932; died in Toronto, Ont., July 15, 2023. Daughter of Irene (Danaher) Cleary; survived by loving ...

A few years ago, I wrote this: “[Pierre Poilievre]is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he ...

What if the Conservatives lose? Every poll, just about, now suggests they will. The seat projections are worse. Even the polls that describe a very tight race – like Mainstreet – project a Mark Carney ...

I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re lot friendlier than you know. Members of Parliament, that is. Partisan differences notwithstanding, durable friendships persist behind the scenes. And ...

But opposition parties can defeat themselves too. And, this past week, the Conservative Party of Canada was busily doing just that. Three well-known Conservative MPs — one of them a two-time ...

Name ten federal cabinet ministers. Just ten. It’s not a lot. Ten represents just a quarter of Justin Trudeau’s cabinets in recent years. So, name ten. But you can’t, can you? You’re not alone. Few ...

Justin Trudeau – finally, blessedly – is gone. Mark Carney, the charisma-free zone who takes showers in three-piece suits, is the Selected Prime Minister. The polls suggest he could soon become the ...

MusingsListening to U.S. media expressing shock, and reminded of Breslin’s sad final line in his column about the shooting of Lennon 44 years ago: He “became another person who [was] shot with a gun” ...