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Robert Fulford: The c.v. needed to be GG
My friend John Fraser, a major figure in print journalism before he became master of Massey College in the University of Toronto, popped up on Wednesday in a news story about people the Harper...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: The last Queen of Canada?
Saving the monarchy from itself “This is one monarchist Prime Minister,” the National Post’s Don Martin declares of Stephen Harper, having witnessed his enthusiastic participation in the Queen’s...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Ixnay on the Xwayxway
BEST (AND WORST) OF A SLOW WEEKEND It’s summer out there in Pundit-land, and the pickings are a bit slim. The good news is, you don’t have to read them! More G20 questions The Globe and Mail’s Christie...
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Kelly McParland: A nice grey Governor-General
Tyler Brownbridge / Windsor StarUniversity of Waterloo president David Johnston, selected as Canada's new Governor-General The most encouraging thing about the selection of David Johnston as the new...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Meet your new, old, white, male Governor-General
Life of Johnston Rideau Hall just got a lot less glamorous. Sigh. No one seems to have a bad word to say about the appointment of David Johnston as Governor-General except the Ottawa Citizen’s Susan...
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Today’s letters: Just who is a ‘child soldier’?
Jacky Naegelen / reutersA child soldier practices with a machine gun in a militia camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Re: Bring Back Omar Khadr, editorial, Aug. 10. According to the International...
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Don Martin: A GG who delivered
Peter J. Thompson / Canwest News ServiceGovernor General Michaelle Jeanat the women's luge competition at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games The seal’s carcass was being carved up by an Inuit elder when...
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Barbara Kay: More glamour than substance at Rideau Hall
REUTERS/Fred ThornhillLook, my calendar is suddenly open .. How about lunch? The adoring farewell to the Governor-General in the Post September 29 will doubtless find an echo in many other commentators...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Whither Trudeaupia?
The Ottawa miscellany Pierre Trudeau’s legacy lives on in many noticeable ways, Chantal Hébert argues in the Toronto Star, but she believes his “imprint on the national psyche is really fading.”...
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Father Raymond J. de Souza: Canada’s fortunate to have a state without the...
Tomorrow David Johnston will be installed as Canada’s 28th governor-general. Few will take notice of the ceremony and, barring a constitutional crisis, it will be the high point of his presence in the...
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Today’s letters: The morality and harm of prostitution
Ian Waldie/Getty Images Re: Your Morals, My Law, John Moore, Sept. 30. Who is John Moore kidding? No matter what anyone opines regarding the legalities of prostitution, no parent wants the apple of...
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Chris Selley: The federalist high road was wrecked long ago. The separatists...
Chris Wattie / Reuters Now that Michaëlle Jean’s term as governor-general is over — and a job well done it was — can we admit to ourselves that at some point in her life, she was very likely a...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Michael Ignatieff is not a murderer
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Life in Ottawa In which Michael Ignatieff receives the ultimate backhanded compliment, Michaëlle Jean makes way for David Johnston and prostitution is ignored, as usual. A quote for the...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: George Galloway comes to Canada, world doesn’t end
“Access to information” The Globe and Mail’s editorialists react hawkishly to a question from a Muslim leader about whether the government wants Muslims “spying on each other” in hopes of outing...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: We’re all ideologues now
The Ottawa miscellany On coalitions and other radical ideas. In Maclean’s, Andrew Coyne excellently pillories the Canadian habit of accusing one’s political opponents of possessing “ideology,” meaning...
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Dan Gardner: Haiti’s ‘dynamic’ culture, ruined country
REUTERS/Jorge SilvaMourners at a mass grave site on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince Imagine two people. One is sure in his bones that he can succeed, but only if he works as hard as he can, gets the...
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Joe O’Connor: What if Peter Mansbridge were King of Canada?
Aaron Lynett/National PostImagine if all our $20 bills featured Peter Mansbridge instead. OK, I admit it: I have a bit of thing for Queen Elizabeth II. Not an X-rated thing, but a fascination thing,...
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John Ivison: Throne Speech takes care of unfinished business
Senate pages have a habit of enlivening dreary Throne Speeches. In 2006, one young lady keeled over just as Governor General Michaëlle Jean urged MPs to let Divine Providence guide their deliberations;...
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Chris Selley: Two passports? No problem
Thomas Mulcair’s legendary pugnacity rarely fails to annoy, but I appreciate his “it’s not changing, take it or leave it” approach — thus far, anyway — to the fact he holds a French passport. Too...
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Kelly McParland: Ottawa press gallery will mourn loss of Challenger jets more...
Reports indicate Ottawa is planning to ground four of its six Challenger jets. This will be a blow to the small group of cabinet members and senior military who had occasional access to them, but will...
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