In October 2015, Trudeau led the Liberals to a strong majority government (184 of 338 seats), the second-best performance in the party's history.
Six months ago, at the end of Iran’s presidential election, I speculated that the long-lived theocratic dictatorship in Iran may be a lot closer to its end than its beginning: If you can plausibly say "This cannot go on forever," you are also saying "Some day this will come to an end.” Read More
A few days into the new year, it feels like the world is bracing for impact. A notable strategy for building resilience, ironically, is gratitude. Read More
Of all the year-end superlatives – best movie villains, worst trends, Time's person of the year, my favourite is the word of the year. Dictionaries are among the cheekiest institutions of our time, rivalling even the U.S. National Parks Service. Both speak truth to power, and generate top-notch social media content, such as a recent safety reminder featuring a diorama of a gingerbread man snapping a selfie while his buddy is tossed aloft by gingerbread buffalo, his terror etched in icing. Read More
Gabriel Kney was only 22 when he arrived in Canada in 1951, already having seen enough war and destruction to last a lifetime. Read More
Domestic and international politics heading into 2025 will largely be dominated by potentially transformative elections, economic volatility and profound uncertainty about the future prospects for global peace and prosperity. Read More
There are many potential landmines to navigate at the holidays, from the trinity of excess (overspending, overscheduling and overindulging) to the ticking time bombs planted when conversations with relatives turn political. Read More
They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, but what are the odds the man whose fighters brought down the regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa, can bring peace, prosperity and even democracy to Syria? Read More
Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the Middle East's demanding standards. Father and son, the Assad regime oppressed and abused the Syrian people for 53 years, and now it's gone in a week. Even the American-backed puppet regime in Afghanistan didn't fall that fast. Read More
It seems everywhere you look these days, Premier Doug Ford is pointing a finger at the little guy. Cyclists are causing gridlock. Unhoused people in encampments are ruining parks. People who use drugs at supervised consumption sites (rather than in public spaces) are a threat to nearby schools. Read More
The federal government is giving Canadians a temporary tax break by exempting GST/HST on certain items during the holiday season from Dec. 14 to Feb. 15. Read More
A lot has happened since historian Timothy Snyder published his concise handbook, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The tiny book exploded in 2017. Today it's more relevant than ever. Among the lessons Snyder draws from our fraught history with authoritarianism, the most important is: Do not obey in advance. Read More