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Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Liberal Party of Canada was near death when Justin Trudeau took over as leader. He leaves it near death [...]

His government, which emphasized symbols over substance, looked very much like the man who led it, Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Liberal Party of Canada was near death when https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/justin-trudeau/ took over as leader. He leaves it near death again. The years between have [...]

A lame-duck PM, a shuttered Parliament, a government without legitimacy, and a ruling party more concerned with fighting each other than fighting Donald Trump, “I will always be motivated by what is in the best interests of Canadians,” Justin Trudeau declared, in https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-set-to-address-his-future/. And yet the interests of Canadians seem to have finished well [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff We are about to receive one hell of a civics lesson. It will be a particularly painful one for the Liberals, who are staring at political [...]

We have no prime minister, practically speaking. And we have no way of getting one for some time, We are about to receive one hell of a civics lesson. It will be a particularly painful one for the Liberals, who are staring at political oblivion and have many [...]

'Stephen Harper has used prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances," the Liberals' 2015 platform complained. "We will not." Well, that was then. Mr. Harper, it is true, had used the [...]

The Liberals may be pondering following in the Conservatives’ footsteps, but Harper had the better case to make, “Stephen Harper has used prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances,” the Liberals’ 2015 platform complained. “We will not.” Well, that was then. Mr. Harper, it is true, had used the [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff One way of looking at the crisis to which the Prime Minister has led his party, the government and the country - the country adrift, effectively [...]

Canadian prime ministers have always been powerful, but lately, it has been taken to unprecedented extremes, One way of looking at the crisis to which the Prime Minister has led his party, the government and the country – the country adrift, effectively leaderless in the face [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff In fairness to the Prime Minister, who knew that if you spent three months undermining your own Finance Minister, refusing to express confidence in her while [...]

While the former finance minister’s move is understandable on a personal level, it’s harder to understand the principled differences over policy that supposedly led to the split, In fairness to the Prime Minister, who knew that if you spent three months undermining your own Finance Minister, refusing to express confidence in her while your underlings trash-talked her [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff When Chrystia Freeland rises in the House Monday to deliver the Fall Economic Statement - if she does - the country will be presented with a [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Oh, by the way, there's a postal strike on. You may have missed it: it's only been four weeks. Postal strikes used to be big news. [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff That was quite the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. As our Steven Chase reports, they started in the Library Bar, beneath the portrait of a much younger Donald [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff By the time the government finally gets around to delivering its fall economic statement, it may no longer be fall. The statement is usually delivered in [...]

In the wake of the U.S. tariff threat, the Conservative Leader has looked jittery, uncertain and off-key, That was quite the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. As our Steven Chase https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-donald-trump-dinner-justin-trudeau-mar-a-lago/, they started in the Library Bar, beneath the https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/a5870/trump-portrait-mar-a-lago/ of a much younger Donald Trump “in a white [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Good to see no one is panicking. The president-elect of the United States, in a late-night social-media outburst, has declared he would impose a 25-percent tariff [...]

Fifty years ago, Singapore had traffic problems on par with most other rapidly expanding cities, Every day the traffic problem in Toronto seems to get a little worse. Because it is getting worse – measurably, miserably worse. A https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-toronto-traffic-getting-worse/ offers some telling statistics: Torontonians spend [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Every day the traffic problem in Toronto seems to get a little worse. Because it is getting worse - measurably, miserably worse. A recent Globe story [...]

What will it mean to live next to a democracy that no longer wants to be a democracy?, Now that the people of the United States have elected a fascist to lead them – a felon to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed,” an insurrectionist to [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Now that the people of the United States have elected a fascist to lead them - a felon to "take care that the laws are faithfully [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Alandslide, some call it. A sweeping victory - or, if you are so disposed, a stunning defeat. What could it all mean? But wait a minute. [...]

A growing body of research shows voters aren’t motivated by rational considerations, but factors such as social identity and partisan loyalty, A landslide, some call it. A sweeping victory – or, if you are so disposed, a stunning defeat. What could it all mean? But wait a minute. Before we delve [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable antipolicies. [...]

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster of Donald Trump’s re-election, Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on [...]

Byline: Andrew Coyne; Staff Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail columnist. Chaos theory enjoyed a brief spell at the top of the intellectual charts a generation ago, then largely [...]

Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses the presidential election, the malignant narcissist has already guaranteed instability in America moving ahead, Chaos theory enjoyed a brief spell at the top of the intellectual charts a generation ago, then largely passed from public consciousness. It may be about to undergo something of [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff The collapse of the Canadian health care system continues apace. Wait times for surgeries have reached 28 weeks, from referral to treatment - three times as [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff It was, by all accounts, a 'robust' discussion at Wednesday's Liberal caucus meeting. And not only robust, but 'frank' and 'difficult.' And why not? Ostensibly Liberal [...]

Here we find the Liberal MPs, too terrified to so much as utter their own names in a bid against their Leader, lest his wrath come down upon them, It was, by all accounts, a “robust” discussion at Wednesday’s Liberal caucus meeting. And not only robust, but “frank” and “difficult.” And why not? Ostensibly Liberal MPs were there to [...]

Don’t just merge physicians’ practices, as Jane Philpott’s high-profile plan proposes – make these primary-care teams patients’ surrogates who can purchase care on Canadians’ behalf, The collapse of the Canadian health care system continues apace. Wait times for surgerieshttps://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2023, from referral to treatment – three times as high as 30 years ago, when wait times [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff What's it going to take? Just how badly must our national security be compromised before our political leaders start to take it seriously? All around the [...]

The peace and prosperity Canadians have always taken for granted is increasingly in danger, What’s it going to take? Just how badly must our national security be compromised before our political leaders start to take it seriously? All around the world the tide of [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff To dispense with the obvious: No, Monday's extraordinary statement by the RCMP - that agents of the government of India, including the High Commissioner to Canada, [...]

What relationship can there be with a government that murders our citizens?, To dispense with the obvious: No, Monday’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-india-diplomats-expelled-rcmp/ by the RCMP – that agents of the government of India, including the High Commissioner to Canada, have engaged in a far-reaching [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff Two different forums of accountability, two very different outcomes. Over at the Foreign Interference Commission, chaired by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, a parade of witnesses and government [...]

The serial refusal of governments of either party to obey Parliament’s demands is part of a broader decline of democracy, Two different forums of accountability, two very different outcomes. Over at the Foreign Interference Commission, chaired by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, a parade of witnesses and government documents have cast new [...]

Why has there been so little movement in the polls in America’s presidential election?, A commonplace of politics holds that “campaigns matter.” Whatever the polls may portend beforehand, they can change in the course of an election campaign. A strong campaign can win an [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff A commonplace of politics holds that "campaigns matter." Whatever the polls may portend beforehand, they can change in the course of an election campaign. A strong [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff In the election of 1958, the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker swept the country, winning 208 out of a total of 265 seats - with the help [...]

Pierre Poilievre is targeting the media, which is standing on increasingly shaky ground, So apparently the boycott is off: Pierre Poilievre has announced https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/pierre-poilievre-ends-ctv-boycott-appears-on-bell-media-radio-show-after-two-news-staffers/article_8013b992-80c7-11ef-8cec-bb512f0dbad8.html last week’s https://x.com/Skamski/status/1838665622491926829 on Conservative MPs speaking to CTV News. Lest you think this is owing to any sudden [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff So apparently the boycott is off: Pierre Poilievre has announced he has lifted last week's fatwa on Conservative MPs speaking to CTV News. Lest you think [...]

In the face of the inevitable separatist provocation, would Pierre Poilievre have the patience and the fortitude neither to lash back, nor to give in?, In the election of 1958, the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker swept the country, winning 208 out of a total of 265 seats – with the help of an astonishing 50 [...]

It has been an eye-opening couple of weeks of testimony before Justice Marie-Josée Hogue's commission of inquiry on foreign interference. The most extraordinary revelations have had less to do with [...]

The former central banker has been tasked with creating ‘new ideas’ on economic growth ‘building on’ what the Liberals have done to date – thus changing everything and nothing at the same time, So what was that Mark Carney appointment about, anyway? The former Bank of Canada governor, it was announced recently, is to chair something called a Leader’s Task Force on Economic [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff So what was that Mark Carney appointment about, anyway? The former Bank of Canada governor, it was announced recently, is to chair something called a Leader's [...]

On foreign interference, the parties are in a dangerous conflict of interest: not only the problem but in charge of the solution, It has been an eye-opening couple of weeks of testimony before Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s commission of inquiry on foreign interference. The most extraordinary revelations have had less to do with [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff 'Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try." - Homer Simpson They are writing the obituaries already for the carbon [...]

The Liberals are being scolded for proposing a superior policy that was hard to explain. The Conservatives are being congratulated for shamelessly exploiting popular confusion, “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.” – Homer Simpson They are writing the obituaries already for the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/carbon-tax/ With the federal NDP [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff I suppose it could have been worse for the Liberals. For example, their candidates in Monday's by-elections might have ended the night by donning Conservative colours [...]