John Geddes

Two flaws in the Tories approach to crime

It’s not often Canada’s top bureaucrat, Kevin Lynch, gives a major public speech. The Clerk of the Privy Council traditionally...

Harper’s best incentive to tour the globe? The friendly foreign press.

Harper’s former chief of staff delivers a frank explanation on why the Tories cut the GST

David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada Governor, is starting to sound like the closest thing we have to an economic sage. I guess...

President Barack Obama’s worst moment on yesterday’s Jay Leno show came, not when he made that bowling gaffe, but when he airily...

An authoritative voice is casting the inevitable doubt on the latest purported “life portrait” of William Shakespeare. If...

Upbeat and daring, Mark Carney takes the Bank of Canada into uncharted waters

The biggest story you probably didn’t pay much attention to this week was Ontario’s plan to let...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s upbeat speech earlier this week on Canada’s economic prospects can now be read in the context of...