Pierre Trudeau

A few weeks ago, the Star went ahead and declared Pinball Clemons a sort of Obama-in-waiting. Some degree of chuckling ensued. The...

(The Commons returns with a 37th attempt to understand the Stephane Dion Era.) In the early hours of the last day of his first...

Pierre Trudeau! Jacques Chirac! Marcel Proust! Christian Dior! The president of Harvard! The guy who founded the modern Olympic...

Goodale jumped head first into politics

First, to Mississauga. Specifically to a park adjacent to a narrow river that just so happened to have a gaggle of Canadian geese...

Back, for a moment, to David Foster Wallace’s take on John McCain. Near the end of that little book Foster Wallace arrives at his...

Recent Canadian history is not entirely bereft of above-average speeches. It just takes a bit of a think to remember the good...