“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”– Justice Samuel Alito, United States Supreme Court, June 24, 2022. With those words, the nation’s highest court reversed itself, declared it had […]

(hold for arrival) Rt. Hon. Pierre PoilievrePrime Minister of CanadaRideau Cottage1 Sussex DriveOttawa, ON  K1A 0A1 Dear Prime Minister Poilievre, This may be presumptuous, but I want to be among the first to congratulate you on your imminent ascension the […]

“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 […]

Doug Ford has reasons to be pleased. Overjoyed. He accomplished what he set out to do – he led his Ontario Progressive Conservatives to a second majority government on Thursday. He even increased his majority, winning seven more seats, 83, […]

Welcome to the fourth in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our last post is by Wilfrid Laurier political scientist Andrea Perrella. A lot of attention on election campaigns focuses on […]

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 […]

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 […]

Early in my career, I spent 15 years in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, fishing for news and column material on the Hill. I got to know the place reasonably well. Although I’ve been back and forth to Ottawa many times, […]