The London attack: It’s getting harder to keep calm and carry on
It’s a fool’s errand to predict the location of the next attack, even if there is a ghoulish certainty that another is coming
Andrew MacDougall
Andrew MacDougall is a London (UK) based columnist, commentator and consultant. He was formerly Director of Communications to Stephen Harper.
By electing Andrew Scheer, the Conservatives choose not to go ’Mad’
By rejecting Maxime Bernier with a cautious, conservative choice for leader, Conservatives choose life, as a party
Why the ethics commissioner did wrong by Nigel Wright
Andrew MacDougall on the ethics ruling against his former colleague in Stephen Harper’s PMO over the Mike Duffy affair
As it’s laid out, Bernier’s health-care plan may be electoral poison
Are Canadians ready for a conversation about health care? If Maxime Bernier wins the Conservative leadership, we’ll be having one anyway.
Sean Spicer must step up—or quit
The White House has a communications problem. But it goes far beyond that.
What James Comey’s firing reveals about the Trump White House
If you’re going to go nuclear on the FBI, writes a former PMO communications director, at least do it—and communicate it—competently
What happens when politicians have to grapple with ’survivability’
As Harjit Sajjan faces demands for his resignation, a former Harper PMO insider offers a look inside a political defence
Farewell to Kevin O’Leary, a man who didn’t come back for you
The many reasons Kevin O’Leary had no shot at the Conservative leadership—and the missteps he’s made, even since dropping out
How a new Tory leader can beat Justin Trudeau
It won’t be easy, but the Liberals are vulnerable on key fronts and the path is clear for whoever wins the leadership race
Conservative leadership race: The beginning of the end—but for whom?
The Conservative membership sign-up deadline is over—and the campaign messages have narrowed. Here’s what comes next.