Disregard citizen unhappiness at your own peril, leaders
When governments, Left and Right, lose sight of the goal of long-term happiness, they revert to a faulty definition of liberty, one which puts pure individual freedom before human dignity.
The NDP don't take themselves seriously, so why should we?
The point of Canada’s federal NDP seems not to be to win, nor even to advance a narrow cause. It seems simply to exist for its own sake, occasionally finding comfort in passing party policy resolutions that read like half-baked social studies masters’ theses.
Pierre Poilievre continues to confound the media
Poilievre’s Conservatives aren’t just trying to motivate static voters, they’ve been persuading changing voters, building a coalition from the bottom up, re-litigating “settled” policy debates, and staking out new policy ground.
Don't mistake Poilievre's big business broadsides for an anti-growth agenda
Prioritizing the interests of a small elite is part of how our country got into this mess. But casual watchers should not mistake Poilievre’s distaste for corporate Canada’s trendier priorities with a fundamental discomfort with free market capitalism. In fact, it’s the opposite. For Poilievre, fiscal conservatism and economic populism aren’t incompatible, they’re a match made in heaven.
Your freedom to watch porn doesn't trump our duty to protect children
An adult’s absolute right to guaranteed privacy online in every circumstance in no way outweighs our duty to protect children from harmful content on the internet.
When it comes to marriage and babies, we can’t just mind our own business
To confront the problems caused by low birth rates, we must talk frankly about childbearing, marriage, and even dating. Elite thinkers, public policy experts, and political leaders must get comfortable promoting marriage and increased birth rates as common social goods.
If you want to know how Pierre Poilievre would govern, try listening to him
Pundits assume a politician can’t be a populist and an intellectual, a savvy communicator and a policy wonk, a firebrand and a thinker. Just because Poilievre’s slogans resonate doesn’t mean there is no substance behind them, and just because they’re compelling to regular people, doesn’t mean they’re not informed by good policy.
Gen Z doesn’t care about your public health care hang-ups
Just as on housing, young people don’t share their parents’ stiff upper lips and are not content to just receive supbar care. Crestview’s October survey of 2000 Canadians found that as much as seventy percent of Gen Z decided voters are open to “pay for service” health care.
The Israel-Hamas war is uniting conservatives even as it fractures the Left
Much like how the threat of communism kept the Right broadly united in the 1980s, today’s high-stakes geopolitical turmoil—and all its moral consequences—has brought the conservative coalition together, even as it has driven progressives apart.
Israel's civic strength in response to the Hamas attacks should stiffen Canada's spine
Israel’s 9/11, while exposing our weakness, calls on us to find courage, and provides us, in the brave reactions of Israelis themselves to the tragedy, with examples to aspire to.