Pierre Poilievre is quietly doing what he excoriated his predecessor as Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, for attempting to do in the 2021 election – to nudge their right-wing party toward the political centre. The change of direction and tactic occurred […]

As Parliament resumes today after its holiday recess, MPs will be back at work, not much clearer about what folks outside the Ottawa bubble really expect from them than they were when they left on their break a few days […]

In LISPOP’s survey of Ontario voters in the 2022 election, we focused on attitudes toward housing. One of the series of questions that we asked respondents was to name a cause of the recent increase in house prices and rents. […]

If William Morneau, the former Trudeau finance minister, is positioning himself to take a run at his old boss’s job, as the timing of the release of his new book suggests, he might be wise to pause and take a […]

Just what an election is about is a question at least as important as who is standing. Because most voters don’t have coherent ideologies, but rather many different attitudes, a candidate might be better off making an election about something […]

Last week’s column produced a surprising (to me) flurry of comments from readers. The piece  wasn’t even about my hero, Doug Ford; it barely mentioned reliably controversial Justin Trudeau. The subject was Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s ambition to abolish the […]

Pierre Poilievre says one of his first acts when (not if) he becomes prime minister will be to shut down the CBC. There’s nothing surprising about his commitment. Fear and loathing of the public broadcaster has been baked into the […]

Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeauc/o High Commissioner Emina TudakovicCanadian High Commission3 West Kings House RoadKingston 10, Jamaica My Dear Prime Minister, Knowing how eagerly you have been waiting for my annual New Year’s letter with its sage advice on ways to […]