Columns

National Column: Is a name enough to win the leadership?

To measure the high leap Caroline Mulroney will attempt should she, as expected, run for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, consider that she would have four months to do what Justin Trudeau accomplished over seven years. […]

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National Column: Premiers at election crossroads

It is always risky to judge a gift by its wrapper.

For very different reasons, the pre-election dynamics shifted in Ontario and Quebec this week, possibly in a way favourable to the ruling Liberals in either province.
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National Column: Singh can get hearing in Quebec

Bloc Quebecois Leader Martine Ouellet was not really trying to stop the campaign of presumed NDP front-runner Jagmeet Singh in its tracks when she suggested this week that he was too religious for the good of Quebec. […]

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Finding Bernier a role may not be easy

One of Andrew Scheer’s first and most delicate assignments as Conservative leader will be to find a proper place in his team for runner-up Maxime Bernier. That may be easier said than done.
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Editorial & Opinion

National Column: Bombardier bygones may not become bygones

It has long been taken for granted that no prime minister, no Quebec premier, would ever let Bombardier go under on his or her watch. The aerospace giant’s leading contribution to Canada’s R&D sector and the thousands of jobs it provides kept it on the shortlist of Canadian corporations that no government would allow to fail.
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National Column: Rising star is PQ’s latest existential threat

Depending on who one talks to, the NDP’s first Quebec leadership debate drew anywhere from 250 to 400 people on Sunday afternoon in Montreal.

Those are decent enough numbers considering the party could not fill a 500-seat hall in Quebec City for one of the marquee debates that led to the election of Thomas Mulcair as Jack Layton’s successor in 2012. […]

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National Column: A shoddy swipe at Quebec can prove costly

It was shoddy journalism, not a debatable take on Quebec society, that cost former Ottawa Citizen editor Andrew Potter his “dream job” as head of McGill university’s prestigious Institute for the Study of Canada this week.
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