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That Ever Governed Frenzy

Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick

Rumble on Parliament Hill

In the ring with Justin Trudeau

Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich

Yuen Pau Woo

Yuen Pau Woo is an independent senator representing British Columbia. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

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On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt October 2024
But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.—Arthur Miller It would be tempting to interpret the Arthur Miller classic The Crucible as a parable about those who believe in witches and those who…

Hollowed Halls

What ails the study of foreign policy? April 2022
The study of Canadian foreign policy is in disarray. That is pretty much the conclusion Brian Bow and Andrea Lane reach in Canadian Foreign Policy: Reflections on a Field in Transition, their edited volume on what they describe as an academic discipline — known by the initials CFP — that has “been crumbling for twenty years or more but manages to survive in some form.” It may well be that the practice of Canadian foreign policy is also in…

Decline of the Downtown Elite?

Canada’s old leaders lost power by ignoring new realities, argues this lively polemic May 2013
Fortune favours those who recognize major shifts in society ahead of others and act on them. No wonder there is an army of pundits and prognosticators who promote their version of the next big thing. The stakes can be very high. In Canada, we have only to think of Blackberry underestimating the importance of consumer applications for…