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 ...

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 ...

Trudeau’s story has changed at least four times since 2001 After media reports revealed that Justin Trudeau wore blackface during an event at West Point Grey Academy, Canadians have been asking why ...

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.

In politics, body language is important. In particular, the body language of Messrs. Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau. One of them does not seem worried; the other two look like they are taking nothing for ...

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 ...

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

When a Canadian Jewish man is viciously attacked and beaten for being a Jew, in front of his child, the response should not be to tweet about a fucking cat. The Prime Minister I worked for wouldn’t ...