Manning Conference 2017

It turns out Canadians are surprisingly amenable to populist forces. So what’s preventing an authoritarian leader from rising to power?

Kady O’Malley wraps up her coverage of the Manning Conference with a caveat about drawing too many sweeping conclusions from one weekend

The annual Manning Conference wraps up with a lively discussion on whether to sell the CBC outright, or just scale back its journalistic operations.

Kady O’Malley shares her observations from the second round of Saturday’s panel sessions at the Manning Conference.

Kady O’Malley was on the panel circuit at the Manning Centre conference this morning. Here’s what she saw and heard.

Also: Hear what Preston Manning thinks about populism in the age of Donald Trump

The Tory leadership debate at the Manning Conference offered a different format, but no one was knocked off finely tuned talking points

A panel on ‘Islamist Extremism’ in Canada offered up some spurious claims, but found an audience at the Conservative event

Despite a ‘Down With The Elites?’ panel, a keynote, and stray hats, Kady O’Malley can’t see much proof of Trumpism at Canada’s right-wing convention

At his major convention of Canada’s right, Preston Manning says today’s populism should be harnessed, not denounced

Kady O’Malley recaps Friday morning at the Manning Centre Conference, including two major keynotes

Conservatives are in full Trumpian seizures about M-103. But the party doesn’t have a monopoly on toxic rhetoric.