Across the cultural landscape – music, film, books – it certainly seems that way. Musicians, filmmakers, authors have apparently persuaded themselves that they alone can solve the Middle Eastern ...

Unlike Hamas, which still maintains an office in Qatar, the Doha Film Institute (DFI) operates out of a post office box in the oil-rich Middle Eastern country. But the institute – which proclaims that ...

MusingsWarren — Feature, Musings — 05.08.2025 12:08 PM Mark Carney is doing a good job.

A few years ago, I wrote this: “[Pierre Poilievre]is one of the Conservative Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Like the Biblical Horsemen, everything he says and does is bad. Everything that is good that he ...

The United States, and then Europe – unsurprising, given their relative populations. But the country that has had nearly as many antisemitic crimes as all of the rest of the world? Canada.

People can make their own decisions. But Canadians who enthusiastically defend Trump and his retinue of grifters and bigots? You are way, way offside Canadian public opinion (up to 90 per cent offside ...

A Thai man is lying on the ground. He seems to be bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest. The man moves his arms, a bit. A Gazan man, one not in a Hamas uniform, takes a hoe, and starts hacking at ...

Yes, the government is still the government. Yes, the Official Opposition is still the Official Opposition. Yes, the turnout was low. Yes, nothing really changed. Yes, the punditocracy reads too much ...

What if the Conservatives lose? Every poll, just about, now suggests they will. The seat projections are worse. Even the polls that describe a very tight race – like Mainstreet – project a Mark Carney ...

Is this, at long last, the result of multiculturalism? As Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, our ally, what was happening in Canada? In Toronto, the pro-Hamas cabal were firing ...

But opposition parties can defeat themselves too. And, this past week, the Conservative Party of Canada was busily doing just that. Three well-known Conservative MPs — one of them a two-time ...