Change. In the 2003 Ontario general election, Ontario Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty crushed the Progressive Conservative government, winning 72 of 103 seats in the provincial legislature. He absolutely decimated the PCs, who had grown arrogant and corrupt and too-long in power. There are lots of reasons why McGuinty won. He had an impressive slate of candidates, he had a platform with lots of good ideas in it, he was the best guy for the job of Premier. But his slogan - “cho

Trust me: I'm surprised by it all, too. But it's true. And here's the deets from my documentary partner in crime, Kari Hollend: Please share and help us reach Academy voters!! Our feature documentary, The Campaign, is now up for consideration in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 99th Academy Awards. I am asking my filmmaking community, doc film makers, please share and tag potential Academy voters. We set out to make a film about one of the most consequential issue

“Back at work.” So said a source close to veteran CBC reporter Neil Herland - and it was true. Early this morning, Herland was back on the air, reporting on the results of Alberta’s referendum on independence. Herland’s voice was heard for just five minutes or so, around 5 in the morning, but it was unmistakably him. “And that is your world this hour,” Herland said. “For CBC news, I’m Neil Herland.” May not have sounded like much, that sign-off. But it was big, big victory f

This is what is called an October Surprise.

Along with several more-worthy folks today, I was honoured to be honoured at Song Shul in Toronto. It was a joyful and uplifting service - and I saw the fearless Neil Herland there! Highlight for me, was the main speaker, Fatima Al-Harbi, from Bahrain. She was remarkable. (I was going to speak but wanted to hear her instead. This is what I would've said.)

In the Spring of 1975, my family moved to Alberta. We took the train from Montreal. My brothers and I would look out the windows as the country sped by in the dark, wondering what lay ahead for us. All of us were Montreal-born Irish Catholics. We had lived outside Quebec before - a couple years in Dallas, a few more years in Kingston - but Montreal lured us back. Montreal had it all: great culture, great restaurants, great schools. People came from all over the world to live

Aviva Klompas is a Canadian-born Zionist and my sister of another mister. Here, I appear on her popular podcast, Boundless Insights, to talk about the very real antisemitism problem in Canada. Here's what she has written about it: Canada has long presented itself as a model of multiculturalism, tolerance, and minority inclusion. But for many Canadian Jews, that image is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile with their lived reality. Jews make up roughly one percent of

Want to stop hate propaganda on a global scale? Take out a Russian data center. That’s what Ukraine did. Yandex is Russia’s biggest technology company. It’s often called Russia’s Google. It runs a search engine, and offers web browsers, cloud storage, maps and navigation. It’s even involved in online food delivery and Uber-style taxis. It has facilities across Russia, and is very, very pro-Kremlin. In the past few days, Ukraine struck a Yandex data center containing two super