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Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Every election victory begins as a theory, and as Canada's Conservatives embark on their third-time's-the-charm effort to unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pressure [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. A sarcastic post from Twitter user @canderaid whose avatar is 'Gapeway Pundit' delighted many in the American center-left the other day. 'I feel [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Canada has been functioning for more than a month now without a governor general - the longest vacancy in more than 80 years, [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. As expected, 2020 was recently revealed to have been British Columbia's worst-ever year for fatal drug overdoses, with 1,716 deaths - the third [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. A consistent theme of the Justin Trudeau years has been wild swings in the Canadian prime minister's public reputation. One moment he's the [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Donald Trump's chaotic four years in the White House were a happy time for Canada's mostly left-wing nationalists. Nationalism has always been inseparable [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. The disgraced tenure of former Canadian governor general Julie Payette, who resigned in shame on Thursday rather than endure yet another exposé of [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Over the past four years, many conservative intellectuals in the United States chose to interpret President Donald Trump's populist takeover of the Republican [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Erin O'Toole, the head of the Canadian Conservative Party, has received a flurry of bad press for comments he made about Canada's notorious [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. 'The media do not get to determine who the president is. The people do,' tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Nov. 7, the [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Over the summer, the Canadian media was in a celebratory mood. Canada's covid-19 infection and death rates appeared relatively low by international standards, [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. President Donald Trump offers Canadian politicians plenty to envy. Even in defeat, Trump's 2020 share of the popular vote - 47.2% at last [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. It was around this time last year that the career of Don Cherry came to its unglamorous end. Canada's most iconic sports commentator [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. On Tuesday night I attempted to do a livestream of the U.S. election on my YouTube channel - a common YouTuber practice I [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. This week, the Canadian province of British Columbia announced that it would be tightening its coronavirus restrictions in response to a modest increase [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Though Erin O'Toole was elected head of Canada's Conservative Party last week, the star of the race was contender Leslyn Lewis. The obscure [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. As the reputation of Canadian Governor General Julie Payette continues to collapse amid an expenses scandal and outrage, many have taken to arguing [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. A hoary cliche calls Canada's Liberals the country's 'natural governing party.' This supposedly refers to the historical fact that the party's been in [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. In one sense, Leslyn Lewis, one of four candidates running to lead Canada's Conservative Party into the next election, is the right woman [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. The novel coronavirus pandemic has offered no shortage of pretexts for Canadians to double down on their reliably consistent culture of crass America-bashing. [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. The coronavirus pandemic has not been an easy time for Conservative partisans in Canada eager to erode the high levels of support Prime [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Every afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerges, groundhog-like, from his residence in Ottawa with fresh news about what he's doing to address Canada's [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. For much of their overlapping political careers, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump have been portrayed as the North American [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. The mutual agreement between Canada and the United States, announced Wednesday morning, to partially close the border is a severe and dramatic development [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For Print Use Only. Peter MacKay, the Canadian media's designated front-runner in the race to lead the national Conservative Party, is said to have two types of [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Watching a Canadian TV panel attempt to discuss Alabama's new abortion restrictions recently, I was reminded how debate is like exercise: Skills atrophy from disuse. The panelists [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough On May 6, the Green Party of Canada elected its second member of Parliament in the party's 35 years of existence. As with every meager success this [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough The Canadian media has long regarded Jason Kenney as the country's most fascinating conservative. His decisive election as premier of Alberta this week ensures that his mystique [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Conservatives in Canada are fond of telling a simplistic story about Justin Trudeau's relationship with the press. Journalists are knee-jerk partisans, the argument goes, and their love [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough One should always be skeptical of any effort to depose a country's ruler outside the normal process of election. Attempting to alter the democratically chosen course of [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Political scandals often victimize the public twice - first from the scandal itself, second from the flurry of bad policy offered as the cure. Canadian journalists enjoyed [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough The efforts of Canada's indigenous rights movement to flex political muscle are most acutely felt in British Columbia. B.C.'s strategic location as the country's only Pacific province [...]

Byline: J.J. McCulloughAn omnipresent danger in Canadian foreign policy is that a mix of avarice and anti-Americanism will cloud the country's capacity to distinguish friend from foe. That's as good [...]

Byline: J.J. McCulloughStories of eroding democracy loom large in the global press these days; the alleged culprits are usually flamboyant strongmen with open authoritarian objectives. But democracy can just as [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough'Virtue signaling' gets a bad rap, but it's always been clever politics. Tackling problems is hard; loudly broadcasting support or opposition for some stylized representation of them is [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough According to Canada's most recent census, only 17.9 percent of Canadians claim to speak both French and English, which means 82.1 percent of Canadians are ineligible to [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough A leader's power to unilaterally pardon the guilty sits uncomfortably with modern democratic norms. There's something distastefully monarchical about a ruler who can, apropos of nothing but [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be such a polarizing figure in Canada, one of his inadvertent talents is clarifying the positions of his critics. Before Trudeau [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough As Americans sit captivated by the uncertain fate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Canadians are forced to grapple with an uncomfortable fact: If any recent nominee [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Maxime Bernier, an outspoken Conservative member of Parliament who has been systematically isolated from his party's leadership, decided Thursday to express his spite by throwing a wrench [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Andrew Scheer, the head of Canada's Conservative Party, is a nice man, a bright man, and by any objective standard, a man capable of running the country. [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough While we know the exact date marijuana will become legal in Canada -- Oct. 17 -- the American timeline remains hazy. It's possible to imagine a Democrat-controlled [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough There's a trend in global journalism you might have noticed. It's been dubbed 'Cansplaining.' A Cansplainer is an article, column or report in an international publication offering [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough One of President Donald Trump's darkest talents is his ability to identify an opponent's delicate spot and stab it remorselessly. From his knack for condescending nicknames (Low [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Given Canada's current pride in flaunting its 'post-national' diversity, it's easy to forget how overwhelmingly white the country used to be. According to Statistics Canada, as recently [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough As is common among sheltered men of extreme privilege, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempts to share relatable thoughts on modern life, his words tend to [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough If there's one thing consistently wrong with Canadian politics, it's too much consensus. Political consensus is fashionable in this polarized age, conjuring inspiring images of uniting disparate [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough During the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, back when invading that country was a more popular idea among Canadians than many care to remember, I recall [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough A curious side effect of American political polarization may be the decline of Canadian anti-Americanism. Though conceptualizing Canadians as a people who are, before anything else, 'not [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Canadians like to brag about the shortness of their prime ministerial elections in contrast to the agonizingly long presidential contests of the United States - a bit [...]