On 22 October 2024, I again joined my friend Nigel Hannaford on his Western Standard talk show, Hannaford. Our topic? The looming US elections and what a Democratic victory might…
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On 30 July 2024 I had the pleasure of joining my old friend Nigel Hannaford on his show for the Western Standard. During our chat we spent a lot of…
I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet these days about China, as any sensible person should. Everyone seems fixated on Donald Trump bullying Canada (and that is…
In what turned out, alas, to be my last regular column for the Globe’s ROB, I point out that unemployment statistics hide more than they reveal. What tell us a…
There is no wall protecting Canada from the populist tidal wave that washed Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States, as I argue in a new Macdonald-Laurier Institute…
In my Globe column I argue that typical Canadian smug moral superiority has no place in our assessment of Donald Trump and the political phenomenon he represents. Canada is not…
To hear the chattering classes tell it, the election of Donald Trump is the End of the World as We Have Known It and over the gate to the new…
Donald Trump isn’t just a bombastic windbag. He’s an economic crank, most obviously in his claim that America has weakened itself by allowing manufacturing to go to China. He promises…