What constitutes true leadership? The lowest bar, it seems to me, would — following a horrific event abroad (October 7) that sparked knock-on mayhem at home, fomented by hate-messaging, terror-s...
Two years ago, I would have sympathized with liberals’ chagrin over U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election. In fact, I was for a time a “never Trumper.” But then came Octobe...
“Sugarcane,” an award-winning Canadian documentary billed as an investigation into “a pattern of infanticide” in a B.C. residential school, has been short-listed for a 2025 Aca...
In February, the western world was shocked when a TikTok video exposed two Australian nurses, Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, openly reviling Jews and Israelis, insinuating they...
One of Trump’s first executive orders (EO) was the “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” act. But EOs are only tenure-long. Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill (51 to 45) ...
It’s fine for political leaders to project general visions of Canadian excellence in a future that’s suddenly shorn of American friendship and protection. But national excellence, prosperi...
Well, I admit I didn’t see that one coming. I’m referring, of course, to Mark Carney’s gaffe at a Calgary campaign stop, where he responded to a protester’s yell that there was...
Islamism — defined most benignly as “the belief that Islam should influence political systems”— is, according to Joe Adam George, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Nation...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election victory speech included a note of humility: “Over my long career, I have made many mistakes, and I will make more, but I commit to admitting them open...
Roger Foley is a leading activist for the rights of the disabled, including his own. A hero to associations for the disabled, he is often considered a thorn in the side of health bureaucrats. Recently...
Last week, some 4,000 participants from over 40 countries demanded humanitarian aid access to Gaza, via Egypt’s heavily fortified border crossing at Rafah. An advance group of 200 (including a n...
In March 2008, revelations surfaced of past anti-American and antisemitic rhetoric by Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright, including Wright’s accusation that the...
Two weeks ago, a Montreal woman was viciously attacked by her stepson’s previously amiable pit bull, losing two litres of blood from some 20 lacerations on both arms. Heavily bandaged victim Mel...
Prefaced by the statement, “Antisemitism has reached a point of no return,” popular Israeli commentator Hillel Fuld recently predicted that in less than a month, “A very VERY large s...
The Ontario public school network is a systemically polluted ecosystem. This isn’t my opinion. The evidence is in, and it stinks to high heaven. A recent survey on antisemitism in three Ontario...
Abraham Lincoln famously said, “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.” Truer words were never spoken. The Ontario educati...
Even if the notwithstanding clause is required for its execution, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is poised to pass a bill “to strengthen secularism in Quebec” — an expansio...
A full-page ad in the Sept. 27 issue of the Globe and Mail, sponsored by the NGO Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF), begins with the words, “Doctors can’t...
President Donald Trump set himself a grueling pace last weekend to ensure his fragile peace plan’s opening performance went off without a hitch. His mini-tour began with a twelve-hour flight to ...