The Conservative Party's platform contains a pledge to pass a "Taxpayer Protection Act" that, among other things, would force the government to hold a referendum before imposing any new taxes. It's a foolish ploy.

If parties respected voters, they’d give them more up front so they could make a considered, fully educated, critical decision about whom to support. If voters respected themselves more, they’d demand it, and punish those who don’t deliver.

Parties and their leaders are meant to love big crowd sizes and boast of them because big crowd sizes hit you in the gut.

Canada must remain, equal parts seized of the matter, vigilant, and pessimistic in the wake of Donald Trump's tariffs

Now that the country’s 45th general election is underway, foreign interference is once again a live, headline issue. The campaign isn’t even a week old, but already the stories of foreign meddling are piling up. 

With the U.S. no longer a reliable trading partner, Canada may be awakening to its foreign policy dilemma – and a new way of doing business

If Ford and Leblanc meet Lutnick and convince him to get Trump to drop, or even reduce, any of the proposed U.S. tariffs, then the premier will have secured a genuine victory for workers, consumers, and industries on both sides of the border.

Ford has laid out a plan to hit the United States hard in response to Trump’s attack on Canada’s economy and sovereignty. You could write a book about Ford’s failures — but his approach to dealing with the Trump regime is spot on.

Because politics is politics, as cynical as predictable, each party and leader will claim victory after last night, but this was an election that everybody lost, not least of whom include the people of Ontario.

It’s hard to look at any party or leader and expect they’ll solve Ontario’s debilitating structural problems. It’s even harder to imagine any leader being worse than Ford