Category: Insight

State should flex muscle to force voters into the booths, argues Dave Branton-Brown.

Look at an electoral map of Ontario and you will spot the Blue Beast right away. Misshapen, starving, and marked all over with open, bleeding sores: Toronto, a huge, gaping wound, Ottawa, an ulcer.

With the summer now officially over and Parliament set to resume Oct. 16, Ottawa’s political climate is heating up amid speculation Canadians will be plunged into yet another federal election. In fact, the national media have already begun speculating on which day the government will fall.

Daniel Velarde explores anti-war sentiment in Quebec society.