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The United States, and then Europe – unsurprising, given their relative populations. But the country that has had nearly as many antisemitic crimes as all of the rest of the world? Canada.
My Mom, Lorna Emma Bridget Cleary Kinsella, coached me and my brothers through all of our lives, too, until we grew up and moved away. Despite the distance, she remained the bond that kept us all ...
A few years ago, I wrote this: “[Pierre Poilievre]is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he ...
Yes, the government is still the government. Yes, the Official Opposition is still the Official Opposition. Yes, the turnout was low. Yes, nothing really changed. Yes, the punditocracy reads too much ...
What if the Conservatives lose? Every poll, just about, now suggests they will. The seat projections are worse. Even the polls that describe a very tight race – like Mainstreet – project a Mark Carney ...
Canadians really, really don’t like Donald Trump. The majority of Canadians, that is. And that’s why Justin Trudeau is again dangling the prospect of another Trump presidency as a Sword of Damocles ...
The French-language debate: Brian Lilley and I watched so you didn’t have to. Some of my Kinsellian debate rules: people don’t watch debates to have their minds changed – they watch to have their ...
I was here, at a Toronto “pro-Palestine” protest today. There were a lot of chants about genocide and killing, but there was not one word – not one – said about Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, a ...
I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re lot friendlier than you know. Members of Parliament, that is. Partisan differences notwithstanding, durable friendships persist behind the scenes. And ...
Name ten federal cabinet ministers. Just ten. It’s not a lot. Ten represents just a quarter of Justin Trudeau’s cabinets in recent years. So, name ten. But you can’t, can you? You’re not alone. Few ...