Michael Taube was a speech writer for former prime minister Stephen Harper. He is a syndicated columnist for Troy Media.
Articles by Michael Taube
- His Truck Stops Here (September 2023)
The quick end to Jason Kenney’s long career - Vintage Years (March 2023)
Two political memoirs - Elementary? (September 2022)
Investigating a curious figure - The Fifth (April 2022)
From printer’s devil to prime minister - Rock Star (November 2021)
As Smallwood took the stage - Do You Have an Appointment? (May 2021)
Inside the public service - A Sultan’s Education (September 2020)
Babe Ruth before pinstripes - The Human Factor (April 2020)
At the beginning of Canada’s oldest company - Taking Refuge (May 2019)
Nineteenth-century Americans look north - Money Matters (December 2018)
Canadians and Americans bank on high finance in different ways - Jean Chrétien: Fox or snake (January 2018)
Bob Plamondon’s Chrétien: The little guy from Shawinigan was Canada’s most fiscally conservative PM? - The House That Bill Built (December 2016)
The enduring legacy of the Conservative who really wasn’t - Bunker Boys (December 2015)
A review of The Big Blue Machine: How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever, by J. Patrick Boyer - Ice Maiden Extraordinaire (January–February 2015)
A review of Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created by Adrian Dingle, edited by Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey - Together Again (April 2014)
A review of Conservatism in Canada, edited by James Farney and David Rayside - A Neglected Royal (July–August 2013)
A review of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent: Father of the Canadian Crown, by Nathan Tidridge - Buying up the Free Press (July–August 2012)
A review of Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada: Content-Sharing and the Impact of New Media by Walter C. Soderlund, Colette Brin, Lydia Miljan and Kai Hildebrandt