One of President Obama’s recent themes in his criticism of the Keystone XL pipeline is the dismissive comment that it will transport “Canadian oil”, as if that were obviously a…
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On his first visit to Canada, President Obama proclaimed “I love this country.” He failed to specify his love was of the tough variety. Ever since Canada’s relationship with the…
Nobody loves America as Canada does, but you know how the saying goes, to get a friend, be a friend. And in this week’s column for the Globe’s Economy Lab…
Two soldiers dead within a week, killed by lone wolves professing to be inspired by jihadist Islamism. Many Canadians are stunned that other Canadians, people born and raised in Canada,…
How the tune has changed! Not so long ago, the federal government’s defence critics were decrying its unjustified hawkishness in a demonstrably ever more peaceful world. Now the criticism is…
In the latest of my seemingly endless screeds for the Ottawa Citizen and other PostMedia newspapers today I mine the D-Day invasion and the West’s success in the Cold War…
In my latest screed for the ROB, I point out that for all its benefits, NAFTA is now showing its age. Twenty-five years after Canada and the US signed their…
Prime Minister Harper heads to Washington today with border issues high on the agenda and I cannot help but recall my trip to Chicago earlier in the week. My hosts…
Coming soon: the sequel to Fearful Symmetry I have had the great good fortune over the last 6 months to work with co-authors Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis on a...
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