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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 The coronavirus pandemic has not been an easy time for Conservative partisans in Canada eager to erode the high levels of support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough 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 coronavirus crisis. At first, [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough For much of their overlapping political careers, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Trump have been portrayed as the North American yin and yang -- two [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough The coronavirus crisis has presented a unique dilemma for Canada's opposition parties -- as it has for opposition parties in democracies around the world. On the one [...]

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

Byline: J.J. McCullough Since much of the moral indignation fueling the Canadian indigenous rights movement is rooted in opposition to an enormous historical fact -- the conquest of North America [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough If you're a young Canadian interested in left-wing politics, then you're probably deeply invested in Bernie Sanders's presidential run. You likely celebrate the Vermont senator's victories on [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough On Monday, Queen Elizabeth formally confirmed what had previously been mere gossip: Her grandson Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, will soon be [...]

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. McCullough To the extent Canada debates its constitutional links to the British royal family, the discussion usually takes the form of weighing the pros and cons of having [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough When did Canada formally become the left-wing country of popular stereotype? The long reign of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who governed from the late 1960s [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough;Amanda Alvaro;David Moscrop;Andray Domise;Michael Taube Canadians go to the polls on Monday to vote in one of the closest federal elections in recent memory. Political and personal scandals [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough The notion of a 'bromance' between President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has always struck me as one of the most painfully contrived political [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough I wasn't able to watch Monday's Canadian prime ministerial debate live because I live in Vancouver, and due to oblivious scheduling by the debate's eastern organizers, it [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Despite shocking the world, it's unclear whether the grotesque photos and video of Justin Trudeau in blackface will have much impact on his bid for reelection this [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Canadian politics, with its ultra-hierarchical, risk-adverse political parties, has proved disconcertingly compatible with North America's current fad for overzealous public shaming. Over the past decade or so, [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough The Green Party of Canada has long benefited from a giddy media bias keeping it far more front-of-mind than its meager electoral success justifies. Journalists largely analyze [...]

Byline: J.J. McCullough Last May, I warned against the Trudeau administration's tightening of Canada's already draconian campaign speech laws, which require anyone spending a relatively modest amount of money on [...]