My latest from the Guelph Mercury (16 April)
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Canadian conservatism has always been an uphill kind of thing. From the MacDonald-Cartier compromise to Diefenbaker’s we-can-win-without-Quebec strategy, to Mulroney’s appeal to Quebecois nationalism and right up to the subsequent divide between progressive conservatism and the Canadian Alliance, Canadian conservatism has always struggled to provide a coherent alternative [...]
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Despite setbacks, these Conservatives won’t fade away
Posted in Canadian Politics, Conservatism on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We elect legislatures, not governments
Posted in Canadian Politics, Conservatism on December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My latest from the Guelph Mercury.
Political junkies have had a good ride these last months, there’s no doubt.
The Oct. 14 federal election produced another less-than-stable House of Commons, only to have the new government’s policy proposals give rise to a less-than-stable parliamentary coalition, which fittingly was to be led by a less-than-stable troika of anti-Conservatives.
It’s [...]
How Manley can test Canadian Toryism
Posted in Canadian Politics, Conservatism, Liberalism on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My latest from the Guelph Mercury. Also available at National Newswatch and Bourque.
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As Her Majesty’s new Canadian ministry settle into their various and several appointments over the course of the next weeks, their honourable counterparts – the Liberal shadow cabinet – will no doubt do the same.
While the Conservative party get on with governing, however, [...]
On Feeling Canadian
Posted in Canadian Politics, Conservatism on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I never feel more Canadian than in the Fall.
I have the privilege this year of pursuing a degree in international relations at the University of Waterloo. All across campus this morning, and into this afternoon, crisp, colourful leaves lined the walkways and danced with the breeze. My nation’s emblem shed its magnificent, evocative image over [...]
Obama’s Ideology
Posted in Conservatism, US Politics on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Powell has written a great piece which appeared today in NYT and the International Herald Tribune, entitled Obama’s Ideological Elusiveness.
In his article, Powell discusses the dynamic nexus of ideological impulses that drives Obama’s policy and rhetoric.
Obama, an intellectually curious man, is nothing if not pragmatic in the application of philosophy to politics, temperamentally inclined [...]
