Why political parties choose the wrong leaders

The hardest thing for a political party to do is choosing the right leader at the right time. If it were simple, the federal Liberals would not have burned through two “permanent” leaders, Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, and one […]

When guns are more important than children

“To some people — to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns — guns are more important than children”  You could have heard a pin drop when Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, was one of 19 schoolchildren […]

Let’s not write Andrea Horwath off just yet

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives are cruising to victory on Thursday, to a second term they have not earned and do not deserve. Elected in 2018 with no experience in government, they made a bollox of many […]

The Ontario Election and the Strategic Vote Option

There has been much talk of “strategic” or “tactical” voting in this spring’s Ontario election.  While definitions vary, political scientists usually reserve the term for situations in which a voter supports a party that is not his or her most […]