On 13 March 2025 I joined Stuart Thomson, National Post Bureau Chief in Ottawa, on his occasional video series, this time to discuss the lamentable antics of many of Canada’s…

On 22 October 2024 I joined Stewart Thomson, Ottawa bureau chief for Postmedia for another of the National Post video chats about politics and public policy. Our topic: what does…
In my May 20th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I take aim at the attitude that employers must tie themselves in knots to accommodate young workers’…
The Grits are fumbling the defence of the LAV sale to Saudi Arabia. And they’re not just fumbling a little bit. It’s a Bob-Stanfield-dropping-the-football photo op kind of fumble. Yet…
As I argue in my March 26th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers, the Liberals have chosen internal trade liberalisation as the one issue where they see…
In my latest screed for the Ottawa Citizen and other PostMedia dailies I make the case that the Tories have to change their image, as their UK cousins did, to…
In my end of year prognostication column I boldly state that 2016…will be rather like 2015. This is particularly true in that Ottawa will continue to try and do three…
Commentary in the West was largely silent or else vaguely supportive when China recently announced it was changing its deacdes-old “one-child policy” to a “two-child policy”. Allow me to be…
In my early November column for the PostMedia papers (including the Calgary Herald and the Ottawa Citizen) I talk about the Liberals’ deep commitment to the ideal of free trade,…
For the longest time Canada’s O&G industry reaped the benefits of having privileged access to the US market, serving regions that found it difficult or costly to bring in oil…