Randy Boswell
About Randy Boswell
Randy Boswell is a journalism professor at Carleton University. He was previously a national writer with Postmedia News specializing in Canadian history, politics and science, and a reporter and editor with the Ottawa Citizen. His freelance articles have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail, iPolitics, The Conversation, globalnews.ca, Rolling Stone and CBC.
With ice cream flying over Ben & Jerry’s ‘stolen Indigenous land’ tweets, New York auction of colonization documents makes clear ‘the steal’ is real
As a social media backlash brews over Ben & Jerry's comments about "stolen Indigenous land," the original, handwritten contract that facilitated England's colonization of what is currently Canada is up for auction on Thursday, writes journalism professor Randy Boswell.
The cheering and belligerence that can set Canada’s COVID numbers on fire
With official Ottawa now engrossed in an inquiry into the Emergencies Act, it’s a good time to remember that vaccines and other COVID measures saved thousands of lives.
Governing as a coalition is only a ‘conspiracy’ to Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives
We should be used to history-blind Conservative fear-mongering on this front by now, writes Randy Boswell.
Jason Kenney and the politics of destiny
A tweeted photo from newly-minted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney unlocks a wealth of stories about ‘preordained’ power, going back decades and involving countless political giants such as Laurier, Diefenbaker, JFK, Clinton and the Trudeaus.