Stories by Lisa Van Dusen
Destiny’s child: the Queen as survivor
Whatever we’re living through now, chances are Queen Elizabeth has seen worse. Which makes her perspective priceless.
Hunkering down amid a global pandemic whose containability depends on your latitude, longitude, and head of government requires mad adaptation skills.
Donald Trump has called himself a wartime president. The question is: whose side is he on?
Working from home is not for amateurs. It requires a knack for troubleshooting and a few handy props.
In a year when American voters are longing for both change and normalcy, electability trumps all other arguments.
As the world faces a pandemic, a dubiously performative president of the United States sets the stage.
The man who lost to the woman who lost to Donald Trump is now the one delivering all the previously unthinkables.
There’s a new favourite word to add to our expanding lexicon of Orwellian, new world order gibberish.Author
For which babies boiled and fricasseed provide both inspiration and a cautionary tale. With thanks and apologies to J. Swift.
The 2020 U.S. presidential campaign is already giving the relentless dumpster fire of 2016 a run for its lunacy.
By keeping Donald Trump in the White House, the Republicans will disprove the theory that the corruption degrading American democracy is all about one man’s narcissism.
Beijing is celebrating the Lunar New Year by cracking down on satire. This is not a good sign in a presumptive superpower.
The real two popes seem at odds over priestly celibacy. I blame Fleabag.
Boris Johnson is casting content creators for a whole new sh*tshow. Public servants need not apply.
A happy Christmas to all! In spite of, you know… everything.
Amid all the toxicity, an impromptu clapback in Washington provides a political moment of—gasp—truth and love.
The question for NATO isn’t ‘Who’s the enemy?’ It’s ‘How do we respond?’
Canada’s rational new deputy prime minister will need a doctrine of radical normalcy to wrangle Donald Trump and Doug Ford.
Albert Einstein said that time could not be absolutely defined. That doesn’t mean it can’t be leveraged as a political commodity.
Like so many narratives catalyzed by Donald Trump, the targeting of America’s career diplomats is likely about more than just Donald Trump.
Rime (noun): An accumulation of frost on an exposed object.
The real challenge presented by the Oct. 21 election result will be for Parliament to produce progress from division.
With elections being messed with in ways democracies are just beginning to fight, maybe protecting the process itself should be the ballot question.
The political wince-o-meter that once delineated interesting from incriminating is busted. The results are about what you’d expect.
As Ottawans make progress in preventing an eyesore addition to the capital’s iconic Château Laurier hotel, local artist Shirley Van Dusen (yes, relation) ponders the beauty of a favourite subject.
As Britain grapples with the ongoing chaos of Brexit, a second prime minister in as many decades delivers a 'my bad' for a balls-up.
With the disclaimer that these days, the 48 hours between filing and press time can produce a multitude of dumpster fires, our federal election actually seems pretty normal so far.
As cyberconnection obliterates boundaries, some speculate that truth stranger than fiction will render literature obsolete.
The word ‘conspiracy’ has been so tainted by crackpots, including the one in the Oval Office, it may be due for a semantic reclamation.
The first rule of campaigning No. 347 should be ‘Never speak publicly about your own electability.’
Political scandals can now be charted on a graph from detonation to amplification to stoking to fallout. There was one in 2008 that took a different turn. 
As we gear up for elections on both sides of the border, the new must-have campaign accessory is your very own ‘crap Rasputin.’Politics This Morning
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