The Green Party’s Elizabeth May went to Ottawa to champion environmental issues. Now the country’s hardest-working politician is out to rescue the democratic process
David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm. Plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy
Making Canada a model nation for the treatment of refugees
A long-time Liberal strategist explains the defeat of the once-mighty Grits
How has Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s new chief of staff, reached the top of the business and political worlds without making enemies?
Canada was once defined by the schism between English and French. Today, our divide is increasingly ideological. Can it be bridged?
How Eva Aariak is reinventing the politics of the North
After almost ten years on the job, Sheila Fraser is preparing to step down. Her tenure was not without its controversy, but no one in Ottawa any longer questions her toughness
What happens when political debates escalate into a culture of arguments, attack ads, and anonymous Internet assaults? A Parliament effectively shut — and shouted — down
Who is Michael Ignatieff? Why does he want to run the country? And does he have what it takes, not only to defeat Stephen Harper, but also — first things first — to bring peace to his own party?
How Stephen Harper brought Canada to conservatism and the Conservatives to crisis
Inside the mind of Barack Obama as he sets forth on his first term as president
How Stephen Harper brought Canada to conservatism and the Conservatives to crisis
The rapture and regret of leaving Ottawa
The continuing saga of Barry Campbell, MP
Barry Campbell runs for office, knocks on doors
An Inuit leader says Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic
On the eve of Ontario’s referendum, a young voter makes the
case for overhauling the country’s electoral system
Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful,
or are we content with being bored?
In Stéphane Dion the Liberals have a new narrator and perhaps a hero. All now depends on the story he tells and how the Canadian everyman reacts.
Paul Martin’s former chief of staff comes out swinging: It’s the economy, stupid, and my boss knew it
The rising clout of Canada’s religious right
What will Canada’s richest province do with its new-found power?
An insider’s take on Jack Layton’s game of chance
Liberty is a work of art
Has the Zionist dream played itself out?
The New York Observer wrote that Michael Ignatieff left Harvard “to save the Canadians.” Why have his writings led some to wonder if we need saving from him instead?
How the Bloc Québécois cornered federalism
All they wanted was to slow the pace of development in their territory. But by the time their 254-day sit-in concluded, the elders had reshaped the Tahltan Nation
Cross-examining the legacy of the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunals
Republican imperialism has left the US divided.
Can a United Nations initiative save America from itself?
After a lifetime of two-party rule in Ottawa, the little guys are finally winning.
Can Jim Harris rescue the environment by mainstreaming the Greens?
A US-brokered deal to forgive billions in Iraqi debt is causing other countries to say “me too,” even as some Iraqis wish they’d said “no thanks.”
Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues
Are Canadian provinces and the blue states in the U.S. quietly forging a radical new
North American Union ? This American says, “Yes.”
Pierre Trudeau tried to stop a cycle of blackmail, where one province held up the national interest by bargaining solely for its own parish. Paul Martin’s new health accord is an invitation not just for one blackmailer, but for ten.
The mysterious Al Dawa party, in league with head cleric Ayatollah Sistani, may be the new powerbrokers in post-election Iraq.
The military junta in Burma has agreed to discuss democracy, but the pace of reform is agonizingly slow
The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.
The system is ailing and the disease is cynicism. Perhaps the time has come for a radical new treatment
In 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran because he believed Iranian fundamentalists were plotting against him. Today, with increasing chaos on the ground, is Iraq still threatened by Iranian subversion?
Can we sympathize with America’s post-9/11 position without getting tangled in the country’s paranoid militarism?
The Israeli and Palenstinian people hold the future of Israel in their capable hands
