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Underwhelming and Overhyped: The Liberal Leadership Race That Fell Flat 

The Liberal leadership race has unfolded as a masterclass in irony, hypocrisy, and missed opportunities—offering as much excitement as watching paint dry. This pre-cooked bake-off features four underwhelming candidates, all of whom have been active participants in Justin Trudeau’s government, which, over the past decade, has overseen Canada’s transformation from

The Liberal Leadership Follies: PART DEUX “A Cast of Characters in Search of a Plot”

The old adage, “A week is a long time in politics,” has never felt truer. In my previous exposé, The Liberal Leadership Contest Goes From the Race for the Rose to the Turd Blossom, I dissected how the Liberal leadership race devolved into something straight out of a reality TV

The Liberal Leadership Contest Goes From the Race for the Rose to the Turd Blossom

For decades, the Liberal leadership race has been known as the "Race for the Rose," a nod to Pierre Trudeau’s iconic red rose, which symbolized youthful idealism, progressivism, unity, and a connection to the people through pragmatic governance. Trudeau chose the rose to reflect his image as a forward-thinking, charismatic

Publisher’s Message

Numerous Canadian public policy academics, public health experts and writers, including André Picard and Jeffrey Simpson at The Globe and Mail, claim that Canada’s health-care system is lagging behind other western countries. As Picard noted in a column last spring in The Globe and Mail entitled Dragging Medicare into the

Publisher speaks to Justin Trudeau’s Liberal leadership potential

Sun TV News interview with OLM Publisher, Dan Donovan, on Liberal Leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau.
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