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There's a reason the aisle width in Westminster, itself, is two sword lengths and a bit.

Part 5 The new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism—tend to ride together, and they are challenging the political center. Only the United States can counter their advance and resist the temptation to go back to the future. But generating support...

Part 4 China’s future is by no means as bleak as Russia’s. Yet China, too, has internal contradictions. The country is experiencing a rapid demographic inversion rarely seen outside of war. Births have declined by more than 50 percent since 2016, such that the total fertility rate is...

Part 3 Meanwhile, the growth of Chinese power in Central Asia and beyond is not likely to warm the hearts of the xenophobes in the Kremlin. China’s ambitions complicate Russia’s relations with India, a long-standing military partner that is now turning more toward the United States. Russia’s...

Part 2 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the United States suddenly understood further vulnerabilities. The supply chain for everything from pharmacological inputs to rare-earth minerals depended on China. Beijing had taken the lead in industries that the United States once dominated...

Part 1 of 5 I am posting this rather lengthy article by Condoleezza Rice from the current edition of Foreign Affairs without comment, largely because I agree with pretty much everything she writes but mainly because I think it would be beyond presumptuous of me to comment on the thoughts of one...

A little bit of luck, like hope seems to have become, in the 2020s, the go-to COA for the Canadian Forces.

When I enlisted we still had many of ⬇️ these WWII 'veterans' ⬇️ serving in the regular Army in Canada - some with the steering wheel on the left, some with it on the right. We made do with with whatever was at hand; only 4CIBG in Germany got anything like "new" kit on a regular basis.

In his book, Memoirs of Very Civil Servant, Gordon Robertson wrote, "St Laurent's administrations from 1949 to 1956 probably gave Canada the most consistently good, financially responsible, trouble-free government the country has had in its entire history." I believe that statement stands...

My opinion, worth exactly what you're paying for it, is that the Trudeau cult began circa 1967 when the Liberal Party decided to dump fiery and slightly left leaning but pro-Canadian Québécois labour leader Jean Marchand and, instead, put their electoral fatten the hands of wealthy...

Let's suppose, just for sh!ts and giggles, that a world famous spy agency decided to fiddle with a bunch of pagers and blow up a few unpleasant people. Let's also suppose that doing the job required operators to intercept (a) shipment(s) and tamper with items. Does anyone really think that...

Lawrence Martin is one of those pundits for whom the very name Trudeau is sacred. When he says the Justin Trudeau is past his best before date it means that the ships is really ready to keel over and go under. From today's Globe and Mail: ---------- The Liberals would do better if they replace...

Just a reminder that while the Globe and Mail editorializes that "Most of all, an election would give the country a direction. Canada is a Group of Seven nation that is adrift, caught between a tired left-of-centre government party that can’t convince voters it deserves to continue, and a...

And the Good Grey Globe's editorial board says that Canada needs an election soon: ---------- Why Canada needs a federal election sooner rather than later THE EDITORIAL BOARD PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO The Trudeau Liberals have now lost a second safe seat in a by-election in three months, although...

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel says that Mark Carney has a whopping big conflict of interest: ---------- (*This article was first published in The Western Standard) Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be appointing uber-elitist and longtime carbon tax supporter...

Without comment from me ... two charter members of the progressive left, Ernie Regehr of Project Ploughshares and Douglas Roche a retired senator and Canadian ambassador for disarmament, tell us their views, and I daresay a views of a very large minority if not an absolute majority of Canadians...

John Ibbitson, who is one of Canada's preeminent political pundits, chimes in in today's Globe and Mail: ---------- With the Liberals losing once-safe seats, an election can’t be far off JOHN IBBITSON PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO For Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the results of Monday’s...

It is still the Justin Trudeau Party; he reshaped it, in 2014/15, in his own image- contrived though that may have been - and he believes, I think, that he is a great campaigner (not a lie) and also the original 'come back kid' - which he was in 2015 but mainly because Canadians were simply...

Indeed, remember, please that ⬇️ this ⬇️ is the normal fighting position of the Conservative Party of Canada: