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Today’s letters: Simple reason why the West votes Conservative
Andy Clark / reutersA Stephen Harper supporter watches returns come in during election night in Calgary on June 28, 2004. As surely as election follows election in Canada, comments about Alberta always...
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Thomas Mulcair would not be the NDP’s first rabbit-hole burrower
It’s hard to know what to make of Thomas Mulcair’s odd comments about the existence or non-existence of Osama bin Laden photos. At best, he just seems confused. At worst, he seems to be giving voice to...
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Jonathan Kay: Here’s a column every left-wing anti-poverty activist needs to...
Carol Goar of the Toronto Star has written a great column, headlined “Why the poor cast votes for Conservatives.” I urge readers to follow the link and read the whole thing, but here are the...
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David Asper: Canada maintains its independent record on Israel
Needless to say, election campaigns are often characterized by inflated rhetoric, un-keep-able promises and personal attacks. How one interprets this dynamic is pretty much always determined by...
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Graeme Hamilton: Duceppe a no-show as Quebec “Patriots” fail to rally troops
MONTREAL – When Bernard Landry’s Parti Québécois government decided in 2002 to rename the May statutory holiday the Journée nationale des Patriotes, it thought it had made another clever move on the...
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Joe O’Connor: Parakeets ruffling feathers in London
Phil Cole / Getty ImagesParakeets feed from a bird feeder in a domestic back garden in Charshalton Beeches on July 23, 2009 in London, England Some say it was Jimi Hendrix, the rock god, who, in a fit...
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Jonathan Kay: Take it from me — ‘gender-free’ parenting doesn’t work
Earlier this month, the Toronto Star published a story called “Footloose and gender-free,” which sympathetically profiled a young couple trying to raise a child in a completely gender-neutral...
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Scott Stinson: The Bob Rae Conundrum
Bob Rae came to the National Post offices during the 2008 election — you know, the one that until recently was thought to be an unmitigated disaster for the Liberal Party of Canada — for a meeting with...
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George F. Will: John McCain’s chairman hopes to do what McCain couldn’t
Donald Trump’s pathological political exhibitionism has ended, Newt Gingrich has incinerated himself with an incoherent retraction tour, Mitt Romney has reaffirmed his enthusiasm for his Massachusetts...
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FP’s Peter Foster: Low rates stoke housing bubble
Should Canadians be more concerned with inflated real estate prices or inflated real estate brokerage fees? This question springs to mind because of two aspects of Ottawa’s current involvement with...
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Tasha Kheiriddin: Separatist support softens further in Quebec
If 2010 was an annus horribilis for the Quebec Liberal Party, 2011 is shaping up to be a worse year for the Parti Quebecois. This is no small feat, considering the problems Jean Charest’s government...
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Independent Quebec gets its own national anthem
Just what a free and independent Quebec (FIQ) needs to return it to the forefront of public enthusiasm: its own national anthem. “Ô Kébèk, un hymne pour le Québec,” has been released by the Societe...
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Lorne Gunter: Liberals become the Botox party, with a new face every two years
Let’s face it, the last three leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada have been duds – Paul Martin, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff. Of the three, only Martin won an election — the minority win of...
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Joe O’Connor: From Tiger Woods to Ted Williams, our heroes are often heels
There is something undeniably admirable about Tiger Woods. He is a bad seed, a bona fide jerk, an F-bomb dropping, porn star groping, beautiful wife betraying cad whose foibles — should he ever reclaim...
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GOP hopeful Rick Perry trumpets support of homophobic freemason paranoiac
Last Satuday, Rick Perry — long-term Texas governor, evangelical Christian, and expected GOP presidential hopeful — hosted “The Response,” a religious revival in Houston for “a nation in crisis.” Among...
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Lorne Gunter: Still another wheel falls off Ont.’s green-energy bus
Seriously, I wouldn’t have believed there were any wheels left to fall off of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s green-energy bus. But I was wrong. On Thursday, the European Union filed a complaint with...
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France’s most famous dirty old man goes free
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: A judge in Manhattan has dropped criminal proceedings against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on...
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Jonathan Kay on Libya, Syria and the Arab Spring: A French Revolution for our...
The Muslim world has just observed Eid al-Fitr — the end of Ramadan. All signs point to this being the Assad dynasty’s last Ramadan as Syria’s rulers. The Assad tyrants — father Hafez, and now son...
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Kelly McParland: Vancouver police speed into action on June riot
News flash: Vancouver police have launched a web site to help identify suspects in the city’s Stanley Cup riot. Jeez, already? Let’s see, the riot was in June, September starts on Thursday, it only...
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Chris Selley: Justin Trudeau smothers Islamic conference in platitudes
Justin Trudeau spoke at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference, and the world didn’t end. I suspect it wouldn’t have ended even if IRFAN-Canada had remained as a sponsor instead of bowing out...
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