We were beside the border with Gaza, in Israel’s South, when the artillery shell hit. The explosion was pretty big, and it landed behind where I was standing. I was there with a mostly-American film ...

I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re lot friendlier than you know. Members of Parliament, that is. Partisan differences notwithstanding, durable friendships persist behind the scenes. And ...

Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Apologies to The Who, but the misapplication of their song lyric is apt: on all matters related to the Jewish state, former Global Affairs Minister Melanie ...

“There’s no such thing as a genius in politics,” said Jean Chretien – who then added that he had never actually met someone who is a genius at politics. He went on: “There are only human beings, some ...

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 ...

When the story of the 2025 election campaign is written, when it takes up its place in the history section in the library, what will be said? What will be the moral of the tale? Every election is like ...

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 ...

Mark Carney gave an uneasy smile. Fifteen minutes in, it was a pile-on, and Carney was at the bottom of it. The Liberal Prime Minister looked a bit tired, and he displayed a bit of exasperation. It ...

The French-language debate: Brian Lilley and I watched so you didn’t have to. Some of my Kinsellian debate rules: people don’t watch debates to have their minds changed – they watch to have their ...

I was here, at a Toronto “pro-Palestine” protest today. There were a lot of chants about genocide and killing, but there was not one word – not one – said about Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, a ...

The Cambridge dictionary folks define it thusly: “A person who is not loyal or stops being loyal to their own country.” Anyone who commits high treason is considered a traitor – and it’s a serious ...

Justin Trudeau – finally, blessedly – is gone. Mark Carney, the charisma-free zone who takes showers in three-piece suits, is the Selected Prime Minister. The polls suggest he could soon become the ...