Books & Big Ideas
- In his new book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, Andrew Coyne unpacks how parties choose their leaders, how the leaders control their MPs, and
FeatureBY | June 26, 2025
FeatureBY | June 26, 2025
- In his new book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, Andrew Coyne unpacks how parties choose their leaders, how the leaders control their MPs, and
FeatureBY | June 26, 2025
- In his new book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, Andrew Coyne unpacks how parties choose their leaders, how the leaders control their MPs, and
- Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-5 ‘is 100 per cent about unfettered political discretion exercised by cabinet,’ says the Green leader.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-5 ‘is 100 per cent about unfettered political discretion exercised by cabinet,’ says the Green leader.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-5 ‘is 100 per cent about unfettered political discretion exercised by cabinet,’ says the Green leader.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘needs to allow his ministers to take front and centre in some of the files,’ but they need to stay
FeatureBY | May 26, 2025
FeatureBY | May 26, 2025
- Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘needs to allow his ministers to take front and centre in some of the files,’ but they need to stay
FeatureBY | May 26, 2025
- Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘needs to allow his ministers to take front and centre in some of the files,’ but they need to stay
- Rookie Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy says he decided to run against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre 'because someone needed to.' He also had the help
- Rookie Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy says he decided to run against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre 'because someone needed to.' He also had the help
- Rookie Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy says he decided to run against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre 'because someone needed to.' He also had the help
- Michael W. Higgins uses his understanding of the Jesuit order to provide insights on the traditions that guided Francis through his reform agenda.
FeatureBY | April 28, 2025
FeatureBY | April 28, 2025
- Michael W. Higgins uses his understanding of the Jesuit order to provide insights on the traditions that guided Francis through his reform agenda.
FeatureBY | April 28, 2025
- Michael W. Higgins uses his understanding of the Jesuit order to provide insights on the traditions that guided Francis through his reform agenda.
- Mark Bourrie says Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre is as much about the failings of modern political parties and the Canadian media as
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
- Mark Bourrie says Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre is as much about the failings of modern political parties and the Canadian media as
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
- Mark Bourrie says Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre is as much about the failings of modern political parties and the Canadian media as
- Rose LeMay says it's 'up to non-Indigenous people to change these systems so that Indigenous Peoples are not treated worse than others.'
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
- Rose LeMay says it's 'up to non-Indigenous people to change these systems so that Indigenous Peoples are not treated worse than others.'
FeatureBY | April 21, 2025
- Rose LeMay says it's 'up to non-Indigenous people to change these systems so that Indigenous Peoples are not treated worse than others.'
- ‘The stakes are very high’ this election says Ekos Research’s Frank Graves, and voter ‘emotions are very important’ in driving how campaigns take shape.
FeatureBY | April 14, 2025
FeatureBY | April 14, 2025
- ‘The stakes are very high’ this election says Ekos Research’s Frank Graves, and voter ‘emotions are very important’ in driving how campaigns take shape.
FeatureBY | April 14, 2025
- ‘The stakes are very high’ this election says Ekos Research’s Frank Graves, and voter ‘emotions are very important’ in driving how campaigns take shape.
- ‘No magic math’: an expert in government finances addresses why cutting waste won’t fund election promises.
FeatureBY | March 26, 2025
FeatureBY | March 26, 2025
- ‘No magic math’: an expert in government finances addresses why cutting waste won’t fund election promises.
FeatureBY | March 26, 2025
- ‘No magic math’: an expert in government finances addresses why cutting waste won’t fund election promises.
- Alasdair Roberts, author of The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, offers advice on how Canada can get through the Trump
FeatureBY | March 1, 2025
FeatureBY | March 1, 2025
- Alasdair Roberts, author of The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, offers advice on how Canada can get through the Trump
FeatureBY | March 1, 2025
- Alasdair Roberts, author of The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, offers advice on how Canada can get through the Trump
- ‘Nationalism has become the key message of the day,’ says Conservative strategist and Hill Times columnist Gerry Nicholls.
FeatureBY | February 18, 2025
FeatureBY | February 18, 2025
- ‘Nationalism has become the key message of the day,’ says Conservative strategist and Hill Times columnist Gerry Nicholls.
FeatureBY | February 18, 2025
- ‘Nationalism has become the key message of the day,’ says Conservative strategist and Hill Times columnist Gerry Nicholls.
- A belief in tariffs has been ‘the one true animating force’ of U.S. President Donald Trump’s political life, says Washington, D.C.-based trade expert.
- A belief in tariffs has been ‘the one true animating force’ of U.S. President Donald Trump’s political life, says Washington, D.C.-based trade expert.
- A belief in tariffs has been ‘the one true animating force’ of U.S. President Donald Trump’s political life, says Washington, D.C.-based trade expert.
- Former Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis represented the Montreal riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard from 2015 to 2019, but chose not to seek re-election.
FeatureBY | January 13, 2025
FeatureBY | January 13, 2025
- Former Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis represented the Montreal riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard from 2015 to 2019, but chose not to seek re-election.
FeatureBY | January 13, 2025
- Former Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis represented the Montreal riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard from 2015 to 2019, but chose not to seek re-election.
- Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is a calm work born of panic, written before Trump was re-elected. If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved
FeatureBY | January 9, 2025
FeatureBY | January 9, 2025
- Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is a calm work born of panic, written before Trump was re-elected. If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved
FeatureBY | January 9, 2025
- Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is a calm work born of panic, written before Trump was re-elected. If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved
- Chrystia is an origin story. Author Catherine Tsalikis presents Freeland’s past to assist readers with understanding her present and speculating on her future.
FeatureBY | January 2, 2025
FeatureBY | January 2, 2025
- Chrystia is an origin story. Author Catherine Tsalikis presents Freeland’s past to assist readers with understanding her present and speculating on her future.
FeatureBY | January 2, 2025
- Chrystia is an origin story. Author Catherine Tsalikis presents Freeland’s past to assist readers with understanding her present and speculating on her future.
- Catherine Tsalikis spent four years researching Chrystia Freeland's life. She tells The Hill Times that she sees two constants in the former deputy prime
FeatureBY | December 17, 2024
FeatureBY | December 17, 2024
- Catherine Tsalikis spent four years researching Chrystia Freeland's life. She tells The Hill Times that she sees two constants in the former deputy prime
FeatureBY | December 17, 2024
- Catherine Tsalikis spent four years researching Chrystia Freeland's life. She tells The Hill Times that she sees two constants in the former deputy prime
- Author and journalist Carol Off pulls no punches in describing the great strain democracy and the dissemination of factual reality are currently under, as
FeatureBY | December 16, 2024
FeatureBY | December 16, 2024
- Author and journalist Carol Off pulls no punches in describing the great strain democracy and the dissemination of factual reality are currently under, as
FeatureBY | December 16, 2024
- Author and journalist Carol Off pulls no punches in describing the great strain democracy and the dissemination of factual reality are currently under, as
- ‘If we're not looking at how those activities are financed, we're missing a whole piece of the puzzle,’ says national security expert Jessica Davis.
FeatureBY | November 11, 2024
FeatureBY | November 11, 2024
- ‘If we're not looking at how those activities are financed, we're missing a whole piece of the puzzle,’ says national security expert Jessica Davis.
FeatureBY | November 11, 2024
- ‘If we're not looking at how those activities are financed, we're missing a whole piece of the puzzle,’ says national security expert Jessica Davis.
- Canada's environment commissioner audit found the $8-billion program was not attracting the country’s largest greenhouse gas emitters.
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
- Canada's environment commissioner audit found the $8-billion program was not attracting the country’s largest greenhouse gas emitters.
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
- Canada's environment commissioner audit found the $8-billion program was not attracting the country’s largest greenhouse gas emitters.
- Charlie Angus talks about his new book, Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, and about the state of federal politics
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
- Charlie Angus talks about his new book, Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, and about the state of federal politics
FeatureBY | November 4, 2024
- Charlie Angus talks about his new book, Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, and about the state of federal politics
- Through nine persuasive yet demoralizing chapters, Jonathan Manthorpe leads us through his rational report card on our nation’s prospects. If we don't attend to
FeatureBY | October 30, 2024
FeatureBY | October 30, 2024
- Through nine persuasive yet demoralizing chapters, Jonathan Manthorpe leads us through his rational report card on our nation’s prospects. If we don't attend to
FeatureBY | October 30, 2024
- Through nine persuasive yet demoralizing chapters, Jonathan Manthorpe leads us through his rational report card on our nation’s prospects. If we don't attend to
- Immigration lawyer Elizabeth Long says immigrants, foreign workers, and foreign students shouldn’t ‘be scapegoated for all of the problems that the government has created.'
FeatureBY | October 28, 2024
FeatureBY | October 28, 2024
- Immigration lawyer Elizabeth Long says immigrants, foreign workers, and foreign students shouldn’t ‘be scapegoated for all of the problems that the government has created.'
FeatureBY | October 28, 2024
- Immigration lawyer Elizabeth Long says immigrants, foreign workers, and foreign students shouldn’t ‘be scapegoated for all of the problems that the government has created.'
- ‘We're putting wheels on it right now,’ says Health Minister Mark Holland of Health Emergency Readiness Canada, newly launched to co-ordinate efforts ‘to build
FeatureBY | October 7, 2024
FeatureBY | October 7, 2024
- ‘We're putting wheels on it right now,’ says Health Minister Mark Holland of Health Emergency Readiness Canada, newly launched to co-ordinate efforts ‘to build
FeatureBY | October 7, 2024
- ‘We're putting wheels on it right now,’ says Health Minister Mark Holland of Health Emergency Readiness Canada, newly launched to co-ordinate efforts ‘to build
- Yaroslav Baran, former chief of staff to a Conservative government House leader, offers a crash course on how confidence motions work, and the strategy
FeatureBY | September 30, 2024
FeatureBY | September 30, 2024
- Yaroslav Baran, former chief of staff to a Conservative government House leader, offers a crash course on how confidence motions work, and the strategy
FeatureBY | September 30, 2024
- Yaroslav Baran, former chief of staff to a Conservative government House leader, offers a crash course on how confidence motions work, and the strategy
- A disarmingly friendly lunch guest, Andrew Lawton is full of contradictions.
FeatureBY | June 16, 2024
FeatureBY | June 16, 2024
- A disarmingly friendly lunch guest, Andrew Lawton is full of contradictions.
FeatureBY | June 16, 2024
- A disarmingly friendly lunch guest, Andrew Lawton is full of contradictions.
- Stephen Maher and Paul Wells both offer insights into who Justin Trudeau is and what makes him tick. But one wonders if we’ll ever
FeatureBY | June 10, 2024
FeatureBY | June 10, 2024
- Stephen Maher and Paul Wells both offer insights into who Justin Trudeau is and what makes him tick. But one wonders if we’ll ever
FeatureBY | June 10, 2024
- Stephen Maher and Paul Wells both offer insights into who Justin Trudeau is and what makes him tick. But one wonders if we’ll ever
- In a sensational new book, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's looking forward to running against Pierre Poilievre because he doesn't want Poilievre to
FeatureBY | May 27, 2024
FeatureBY | May 27, 2024
- In a sensational new book, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's looking forward to running against Pierre Poilievre because he doesn't want Poilievre to
FeatureBY | May 27, 2024
- In a sensational new book, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's looking forward to running against Pierre Poilievre because he doesn't want Poilievre to
- When Greg Malone left Newfoundland for Toronto in the 1970s to get into acting, he says he left a Canadian, but came home
- When Greg Malone left Newfoundland for Toronto in the 1970s to get into acting, he says he left a Canadian, but came home
- When Greg Malone left Newfoundland for Toronto in the 1970s to get into acting, he says he left a Canadian, but came home
- War is a continuation of politics by other means, military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously stated. In his new book, Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie
FeatureBY | January 12, 2013
FeatureBY | January 12, 2013
- War is a continuation of politics by other means, military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously stated. In his new book, Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie
FeatureBY | January 12, 2013
- War is a continuation of politics by other means, military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously stated. In his new book, Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie
- Eleven years ago, Michael Petrou was a 27-year-old intern covering car accidents at The Ottawa Citizen and thinking about quitting journalism. Almost overnight,
- Eleven years ago, Michael Petrou was a 27-year-old intern covering car accidents at The Ottawa Citizen and thinking about quitting journalism. Almost overnight,
- Eleven years ago, Michael Petrou was a 27-year-old intern covering car accidents at The Ottawa Citizen and thinking about quitting journalism. Almost overnight,
- In his latest book, The Myth of The Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?, Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders
FeatureBY | November 10, 2012
FeatureBY | November 10, 2012
- In his latest book, The Myth of The Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?, Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders
FeatureBY | November 10, 2012
- In his latest book, The Myth of The Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?, Globe and Mail international affairs columnist Doug Saunders
- OTTAWA—An unlikely politician who did not anticipate the effect his ideas would have on the making of Canada, Robert Baldwin is a startling
FeatureBY | November 2, 2012
FeatureBY | November 2, 2012
- OTTAWA—An unlikely politician who did not anticipate the effect his ideas would have on the making of Canada, Robert Baldwin is a startling
FeatureBY | November 2, 2012
- OTTAWA—An unlikely politician who did not anticipate the effect his ideas would have on the making of Canada, Robert Baldwin is a startling
- OTTAWA—In December 2008, Canadian soldier Robert Semrau was charged with the second degree murder of a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in a battlefield
- OTTAWA—In December 2008, Canadian soldier Robert Semrau was charged with the second degree murder of a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in a battlefield
- OTTAWA—In December 2008, Canadian soldier Robert Semrau was charged with the second degree murder of a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in a battlefield
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will continue to win elections because the federal Liberals and New Democrats are “too goddamn stupid” to work together,
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will continue to win elections because the federal Liberals and New Democrats are “too goddamn stupid” to work together,
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will continue to win elections because the federal Liberals and New Democrats are “too goddamn stupid” to work together,
- Andrew Nikiforuk delivers a discomforting critique of the fossil fuel-based economy in his latest book, The Energy of Slavery: Oil and the New
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
- Andrew Nikiforuk delivers a discomforting critique of the fossil fuel-based economy in his latest book, The Energy of Slavery: Oil and the New
FeatureBY | October 12, 2012
- Andrew Nikiforuk delivers a discomforting critique of the fossil fuel-based economy in his latest book, The Energy of Slavery: Oil and the New
- There is a federal leadership vacuum in Canada’s health-care system and a fearless opposition party in Ottawa could capitalize on the Conservative government’s absence
FeatureBY | October 5, 2012
FeatureBY | October 5, 2012
- There is a federal leadership vacuum in Canada’s health-care system and a fearless opposition party in Ottawa could capitalize on the Conservative government’s absence
FeatureBY | October 5, 2012
- There is a federal leadership vacuum in Canada’s health-care system and a fearless opposition party in Ottawa could capitalize on the Conservative government’s absence
- OTTAWA—A deep sea diver, underwater photographer, environmentalist, biologist, documentary filmmaker, and now author, Rob Stewart, 32, tried to save sharks by exposing the illegal
- OTTAWA—A deep sea diver, underwater photographer, environmentalist, biologist, documentary filmmaker, and now author, Rob Stewart, 32, tried to save sharks by exposing the illegal
- OTTAWA—A deep sea diver, underwater photographer, environmentalist, biologist, documentary filmmaker, and now author, Rob Stewart, 32, tried to save sharks by exposing the illegal
