I am obliged to open with a disclaimer of sorts. Faithful readers know of my visceral antipathy towards Donald Trump whose idea of governance is largely driven by vindictiveness and …
Canada is a haven for pleasing myths. One agreeable caricature popular these days is of a land and a people united in happy solidarity to resist an unpopular president clamouring …
Donald Trump is holding the world hostage. True to his erratic nature, the US president has toyed with the global trading regimen like a yo-yo. We are captive, to one …
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The surprising casualties of Benjamin Netanyahu’s torrent of terror | Israel-Palestine conflict
Palestinians have long been the world’s forgotten people. The dreadful deprivations, starvation, trauma, forced marches, massacres, and countless other outrages they have endured for generation after generation no longer provoke …
To cancel or not to cancel. This is the conundrum that Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, confronts while poised to call a federal election that will likely be defined …
The contest that saw Mark Carney emerge as Liberal Party leader and soon-to-be Canada’s prime minister has turned out to be a boring fait accompli. The drama that led inevitably, …
Shortly after Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016, The Washington Post unveiled this pompous and, by now, obsolete slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. The ominous-sounding motto was meant, …
Psst. Over here. Over here. You want to hear a trade secret? The bulk of journalists who cover the so-called “halls of power” in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and …
For many Canadians, a thrilling ice hockey game turned out to be an exhilarating antidote to an unforgiving winter. More than that – as a subdued Canadian coach Jon Cooper told reporters …