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

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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.
Opinion | October 18th 2022

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.
Election 2021
Opinion | August 25th 2021

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.
News, Politics | May 10th 2019

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