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. Recent freelance articles have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail, iPolitics, The Conversation, Rolling Stone and CBC.
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.
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.
