Andrew MacDougall

Andrew MacDougall: To flip a losing script, the Conservatives should do the hard yards of defending the principles liberals used to hold dear

Andrew MacDougall: O’Toole is betting Canadians will first want to walk back to pre-pandemic normal—jobs and security—before running for any kind of imagined future

Andrew MacDougall: In the U.K., the most vociferous critics of Boris Johnson’s failures reside on his backbench. In Canada? Crickets on all fronts.

Andrew MacDougall: Sloan’s ouster highlights two key questions: Who speaks for Canada’s social conservatives and what are they trying to say?

Andrew MacDougall: The first step to removing the poison that’s infecting our political systems is to stop injecting it. Let’s start at home, on both the right and the left.

Andrew MacDougall: Social media has painted us into an awful corner where truth never catches up to the lie and emotion only ever ratchets up

Andrew MacDougall: They aren’t gateways to serious news consumption; they’re pathways to polarization and misinformation. We can choose to stop watching.

Andrew MacDougall: According to Liberal logic, the only thing the government has bandwidth for is spending vast sums of money through the pandemic

Andrew MacDougall: In his sickness, the president had a chance to show empathy and solidarity. Instead, he did what he always does: make things worse.

Andrew MacDougall: With another baffling defence of China’s dead-slow coronavirus response, Canada’s COVID-19 missteps keep coming