There is a middling chance that Ontario voters will be going to the polls twice in 2021. The more likely one is a federal election. As suggested in last week’s column, Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government will soon be living […]

If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that deadly pandemics cannot be fought successfully on a piecemeal basis with each province or local authority going its own way, imposing its own control measures, or none at all. The […]

The federal government announced last week it will give the provinces and territories an additional $1-billion to help them keep their long-term care residents safe during this wave of the coronavirus pandemic. One billion is a lot of loonies, even […]

Once again, it is the season when hoary journalism tradition dictates that the columnist pause, review the year about to end and peer through his or her foggy glasses at the one that lies ahead. No one could have predicted […]

That national cohesion, the willingness of Canadians to work together, to endure inconvenience and hardship to bring COVID-19 under control during the pandemic’s first wave, no longer exists as the second wave rages across the land, like a wildfire in […]

“A national emergency is an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that (a) seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a […]

“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”– James Madison, 1829. Madison, who became the nation’s fourth president (1809-1817), is widely celebrated as the “Father of […]

“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.” – Margaret […]