How Stephen Harper forgot his own lessons
Paul Wells on what the former Prime Minister is leaving behind
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Cabinet is not a meritocracy. And it hasn’t been for decades.
Home province, first language and whether a prime minister trusts an MP are all methods of picking a cabinet. Gender is no less arbitrary.
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Toronto has a self-esteem problem
Those popular ’Toronto vs. Everybody’ shirts are caught in a copyright tussle with a Detroit brand. Why Toronto needs to take pride just in being itself
The true test of Trudeau’s new politics? Electoral reform
Will the Liberals take on Parliament Hill’s version of Dungeons & Dragons?
It’s time for Elizabeth May to go
Scott Gilmore explains why the Green party needs a new leader
What did Back to the Future get right or wrong? Doesn’t matter.
Don’t look ’Back to the Future’ in anger. Focusing on what the movie did and didn’t get wrong about 2015 is a disservice to science-fiction.
How Stephen Harper led me to do the unthinkable
Scott Gilmore explains why he abandoned his Conservative roots to vote for a Trudeau
Whom will Trudeau name to cabinet?
Evan Solomon explains why a Prime Minister’s first choices reveal what kind of leader he will be
The surprising end of a depressing campaign for women
There were some unexpected upsides after a campaign in which women were ignored, deployed as political props, and even attacked
This election, pick a reason—any reason—and vote
A raised middle finger, a silent thank you, or a helping hand. Whatever your vote represents, you just need to cast it, writes Scott Gilmore