Anti-intellectualism: Political venom moves North
Lawrence Martin Remember two years ago when the liberal Obama tides were sweeping the U.S.? Many of us thought there would be a wash-over effect into Canada, an infusion of liberal idealism of the type of a John F. Kennedy or a Franklin Roosevelt. Barack Obama would stir the Canadian political imagination. Younger generations would [...]
Michael Ignatieff plots his revenge
by Peter C. Newman Canada’s summer culture cannot be defined by trying to guess how many angels dance on Margaret Atwood’s head. It is best caught at bake sales, corn roasts, strawberry festivals, and the hootenannies where country singers search for their humanity—while their listeners catch its echoes deep inside themselves. That was the captivating [...]
The politics of the long gun
Gerald Caplan A tense showdown over the long-gun registry will soon take place in Parliament. Under the guise of a Conservative private member’s bill, the Harper government still hopes to abolish the registry and to gain politically in the process. Nothing new here. Happily, all three opposition parties largely want to maintain the registry and [...]
Tony Blair stripped of Blairism
Doug Saunders At some point in the early 1880s, Karl Marx visited France and recoiled in horror at the spectre of political parties actually applying his ideas in their most pure and literal form. He told a French leader, in a line that would be repeated for years: “Ce qu’il y a de certain c’est [...]