Published Nov. 26, 2012 in The Waterloo Region Record.
Is Justin Trudeau the real deal?
That’s a question many Liberals are asking as the contestants in the race for the top in the party – without a permanent leader since the debacle of the 2011 election – straggle to the starting line for the race that will end in Ottawa on April 14.
Published Nov. 19, 2012, in The Waterloo Region Record.
Pity Stephen Harper. The poor man doesn’t get much respect.
Here he is, the most successful politician on the Canadian stage. He’s fought four general elections in eight years as leader of his party and won three of them. Come February he will have been prime minister for seven years.
Published Nov. 12, 2012, in The Waterloo Region Record.
There’s a hypothesis among people who dabble in politics that the average political leader has a half-life of about six years – “half-life” being a term borrowed from science to describe a process of gradual or exponential decay.
Published Nov. 5, 2012, in The Waterloo Region Record.
If Canadians could participate in tomorrow’s U.S. presidential election, their votes would surely go overwhelmingly to Barack Obama.
Published on Oct. 29, 2012, in The Waterloo Record.
This United States presidential election has been dominated by two emotions, both of them negative.
One is disappointment in Barack Obama. The other is discomfort with Mitt Romney.
It’s been a nasty election, one singularly devoid of intelligent substance. So perhaps it is appropriate that disappointment and discomfort should be determining factors.
