Category Leadership
The Day After
Donald Trump has been sworn in as president of the USA and the world didn’t end. His first day didn’t feature as much mayhem as he promised, but he does have four years to deliver on his promises. Some his plans just won’t happen. Changing the citizenship rules would require a constitutional amendment. Those are […]
Inauguration Day – Looking Back II
Donald Trump is being sworn in today as the 47th President of the United States of America. We’ve been here before. Here’s what I wrote four years ago today, a day when many of us thought we had seen the last of Donald Trump politically. While the post is about Joe Biden, there are some […]
Inauguration Day – Looking Back I
Donald Trump is being sworn in today as the 47th President of the United States of America. We’ve been here before. Here’s what I wrote eight years ago today. I think it still has value, even though we know Trump much better now than we did in 2017. There will be protests today, as Donald […]
The Liberal Messiah?
He’s selling himself as an outsider, despite being one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s closest advisors. He’s never run for public office, but thinks he can save the Liberal Party from self destruction if he is given the too job. Mark Carney is the favorite to win the party leadership, become Prime Minister and lead […]
Predicting 2028
When I first saw this on X (as Twitter is now called), my first thought was “I didn’t know there was a way around the 280 character limit.” My second thought was “Why has Elon Musk not ordered this post taken down?” Then I thought about what it says about the nature of political discourse […]
The Vacancy
Suppose nobody wants the job. Then what do they do? That’s not going to happen. There will always be someone with an ego big enough to take a chance, some person who believes that they are different and that the public opinion polls are wrong. And if the polls are correct, well, the history books […]
Hey Donald!
Maybe you were joking, maybe you weren’t when you said Canada should become the 51st state. Apparently you thought Justin Trudeau would make a good governor. Maybe he took more than a month to respond because he was considering the offer. He knew Canadians didn’t want him as Prime Minister anymore, so all jobs offers […]
Stepping Down
In the end, he stayed true to form. It isn’t his fault. None of it. Justin Trudeau was looking forward to contesting and winning the Canadian federal election scheduled for later this year. He’s a fighter he says; he wanted to win, he thought he would win. Instead he is stepping down as Liberal Party […]
The Supplicant
I’ve been writing posts about current politics, then shelving them because I wanted to wait for more information. Time to get some of them off my phone. This one was written at the end of November. It was a bold political move, high risk but with the potential for high reward. Canadian Prime Minister Justin […]
What Political Crisis?
Sometimes you have to wonder if politicians, once elected, forget sone of the basics of human interaction. How else can you explain Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ‘s latest, self-inflicted crisis, one that pundits are saying could be the nail in his political coffin? One week ago today Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, hours before […]
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