April 30th Keeping with election reflections, expect the finger pointing among Conservatives to only get worse because the party ran a bad campaign. Pierre never did that ad that had him look directly into the camera. The press wasn’t invited to the campaign and there wasn’t a lot of party discip…

During last year’s U.S. election there was this fear that democracy itself was on the ballot.  I never fully bought into that narrative because I have faith in the spirit of freedom that is embedded in the American psyche and the checks and balances that is the foundation of their system of gover…

Everything is louder during an election, but all Canadian media and politicians want to talk about Trump's Trade policies. What seems absent is more discussion about how we got here. “Liberation Day” seems as good a time as ever with the U.S. and other countries abandoning free trade in the p…

JAM - March 31st Try and weave a couple of recent JAM themes to end the month.  Watched a little of the Blue Jays this weekend and was surprised at how weak the line up still is in terms of offensive pop. Would have thought management after last season would have constructed a better roster. I was …

Like many politically minded Canadians, have been following the early days of our election closely. So much so that I seem to have something to say about it daily . What has struck me the most in the early days of the campaign are how quickly and abruptly the sands have shifted. Obviously, the impa…

Many of us are still confused as to why Americans would elect a political party hell bent on cutting the size of government and turning its back on helping the world. I’ve been taken back by the change, but the voter frustration that has led to it has been building for sometime. If liberals are sti…

Wanted to follow up on a column I wrote nearly five years ago during the wake of the George Floyd murder.  It is interesting to look back at the counterproductive movement that followed and the inevitable retreat that is happening now. I appreciated the frustration at the time that society was no…

The big takeaway from the useless Ontario election last night was that people just like Doug Ford.  Non-traditional conservatives support him, because well he’s not really conservative. Conservatives support him, because he’s the only real choice they have. I am on record for saying that calling an…