The lesson the Tories should heed: Take all of your rivals seriously, and don’t play favourites
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A legacy of guts, stupidity, craft and disappointment
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In terms of popular vote share and per cent of seats won, the Liberal win was identical to the Conservative victory in 2011
Download this column on the election for your publication or website. FREE to subscribers. Subscriptions are FREE Terms and Conditions of use TORONTO, Ont. Nov 11, 2015/ Troy Media/ - Now that the dust has…
The reign of the wicked warlock of the west has come to an Oz-like end
Download this column Stephen Harper for your publication or website. FREE to subscribers. Subscriptions are FREE Terms and Conditions of use VANCOUVER, B.C. Nov 1, 2015/ Troy Media/ - Looking back now, it really did end on Monday night, Oct. 19. As soon as Stephen Harper walked off the stage at the Calgary Convention Centre, it was…
Fear and loathing of Harper trumped fear of leaving the country hostage to profound inexperience
Download this column on the politics of resentment for your publication or website. FREE to subscribers. Subscriptions are FREE Terms and Conditions of use CALGARY OUT CALGARY, AB Oct 30, 2015/ Troy Media/ - Last week, several colleagues at the University undertook a post mortem of the federal election. Two of our recent PhD graduates,…
Mulcair's was grandfatherly, Harper's tragic and and Trudeau's hopeful
Download this column on the election for your publication or website. FREE to subscribers. Join Us Terms and Conditions of use VANCOUVER, B.C. Oct 25, 2015/ Troy Media/ – At the end of a long day of election returns, we heard a trio of speeches from the leaders of the three major parties. They were, in turns, grandfatherly,…
The West faces a new political reality, one that fundamentally shifts the way in which western provinces relate to Ottawa
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Harper joins the long list of Canadian politicians who stayed too long and pushed their luck too far
Download this column on Stephen Harper for your publication or website. FREE TRIAL for subscribers. Join Us TORONTO, ON Oct 20, 2015/ Troy Media/ - When we left the country to go travelling at the end of September, I expected the Conservatives to win a slim minority and defer parliament’s reconvening to early January, at…
Harper is only the 4th statesman to appear in Canadian history in the last century and a half
Download this column on Stephen Harper for your publication or website. FREE to subscribers. Join Us CALGARY OUT CALGARY, AB Oct 18, 2015/ Troy Media/ - “The first study of a statesman,” Edmund Burke observed, “must be the temper of the people,” what Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls “the fundamental values and understanding of Canadians.”…
Download this column on the Conservatives' campaign strategy for your publication or website. Price starts at $8 Terms and Conditions of use CALGARY, AB Oct. 15, 2015/ Troy Media/ – After weeks of stagnation, the final days of this marathon election campaign are telling the tale of three parties – and it is a vastly…