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Yaroslav Baran

Contributing writer Yaroslav Baran is a leading member of the Ukrainian Canadian community. He is a principal of Earnscliffe Strategy Group. yaroslav@earnscliffe.ca

A parliamentary year like no other: shifting alliances, a cautious ‘legacy’ agenda, and a potential deal with the devil

Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. The NDP will be cautious in the fall sitting, despite its new expressions of independence, writes Yaroslav Baran, former Conservative Hill staffer. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. The NDP will be cautious in the fall sitting, despite its new expressions of independence, writes Yaroslav Baran, former Conservative Hill staffer. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. The NDP will be cautious in the fall sitting, despite its new expressions of independence, writes Yaroslav Baran, former Conservative Hill staffer. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 16, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. The NDP will be cautious in the fall sitting, despite its new expressions of independence, writes Yaroslav Baran, former Conservative Hill staffer. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 14, 2023
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh have equally prioritized the theme of housing throughout the summer, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 14, 2023
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 14, 2023
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh have equally prioritized the theme of housing throughout the summer, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 6, 2023
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s convention keynote address will provide him with an opportunity to build on his last major speech when he won his leadership last September, and expand on the program he started laying out then, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 6, 2023
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | September 6, 2023
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s convention keynote address will provide him with an opportunity to build on his last major speech when he won his leadership last September, and expand on the program he started laying out then, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | July 12, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speak at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12. Photograph courtesy of NATO/Flickr
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | July 12, 2023
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | July 12, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speak at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12. Photograph courtesy of NATO/Flickr
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN, MARCI SURKES | May 31, 2023
Work hard, stay humble, and learn everything you can are just some of the tips for political staffers offered by Yaraslav Baran and Marci Surkes. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN, MARCI SURKES | May 31, 2023
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN, MARCI SURKES | May 31, 2023
Work hard, stay humble, and learn everything you can are just some of the tips for political staffers offered by Yaraslav Baran and Marci Surkes. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | March 16, 2020
Some federal Conservative tacticians try to write Toronto off, seeing it as a political dead zone for the party, arguing campaign resources are better spent squeezing out the remaining isolated swing ridings that still went Red last year in more fertile regions of the country. How do you do that? Concentrate on a combination of demographic micro targeting (to boost Conservative votes) and 'opposition research' (to suppress Liberal votes). That means more small-fry boutique policy and more negative campaigning. Yet we want our politics to be more than this, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | March 16, 2020
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | March 16, 2020
Some federal Conservative tacticians try to write Toronto off, seeing it as a political dead zone for the party, arguing campaign resources are better spent squeezing out the remaining isolated swing ridings that still went Red last year in more fertile regions of the country. How do you do that? Concentrate on a combination of demographic micro targeting (to boost Conservative votes) and 'opposition research' (to suppress Liberal votes). That means more small-fry boutique policy and more negative campaigning. Yet we want our politics to be more than this, writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 20, 2020
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured Dec. 4, 2019, about a week before he announced his resignation as party leader. 'The Conservative Party is not in existential crisis. It is on an upward track. Continuing this trajectory, however, does require that it learn from the Harper decade and from the brief Scheer era—including the deficiencies of the 2019 campaign and the mistakes of the 2015 campaign, which was much worse,' writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 20, 2020
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 20, 2020
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured Dec. 4, 2019, about a week before he announced his resignation as party leader. 'The Conservative Party is not in existential crisis. It is on an upward track. Continuing this trajectory, however, does require that it learn from the Harper decade and from the brief Scheer era—including the deficiencies of the 2019 campaign and the mistakes of the 2015 campaign, which was much worse,' writes Yaroslav Baran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 16, 2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, pictured on Oct. 19, 2016, in Berlin for talks on the Minsk agreement meant to restore peace to eastern Ukraine. German federal government photograph/Güngör
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 16, 2017
Opinion | BY YAROSLAV BARAN | January 16, 2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, pictured on Oct. 19, 2016, in Berlin for talks on the Minsk agreement meant to restore peace to eastern Ukraine. German federal government photograph/Güngör