Justin Ling

Justin Ling: The NDP leader was too busy roasting the incumbent to sell himself as a PM-in-waiting

Justin Ling: In 2019, Trudeau vowed to launch national universal pharmacare. This time around that pledge, along with plans for affordable drug pricing, has faded.

Justin Ling: O’Toole found himself on the defensive in Wednesday’s leaders debate, pitching things that were nowhere to be found in his five-year spending document

Justin Ling: In the first French-language leaders debate, Trudeau and O’Toole bent over backwards to pitch themselves as the PM who’d spend the most and do the least

Justin Ling: The Liberals’ platform offers little to tackle Canada’s most deadly epidemic

Justin Ling: The policies put forth by the Conservatives are serious, sensible and pro-worker. They’re also impressive when put next to the anemic NDP platform.

Justin Ling: Both the NDP and Conservatives are taking seriously the idea that we need many, many new homes. The Liberals are, clearly, not.

Justin Ling: The Tory platform says the party will protect conscience rights in health care, but won’t say whether that might restrict access to abortion or deny care to trans people

Justin Ling: I asked the three main parties: Have we learned anything from Afghanistan? One clear theme emerges in all their answers (or lack thereof).

Justin Ling: The PM often says there’s ’always more to do’, but after six years in power it’s worth asking why—and what work has really gotten done at all?