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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

John Ibbitson

John Ibbitson, Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Globe and Mail, is a veteran political columnist and award-winning author.

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The Collapse of the Laurentian Consensus

On the westward shift of Canadian power and values January–February 2012
The following is a version of John Ibbitson’s “The LRC Presents…” talk on December 5, 2011, presented in partnership with TVO’s Big Ideas. In 25 years of reporting, I have covered my share of municipal, provincial and federal elections. Too often I described them as the most important election ever. I am not alone in this bad…