Writings - Good Columns

With all due respect to cabinet ministers: you folks come and go. Limousines and expense accounts notwithstanding, most of you are forgettable. Sorry. But Prime Ministers are a different matter. You only get one Prime Minister per government. Theirs are the names inscribed on history’s pages. Your team’s fate, good or bad, is inescapably tied to the PM. In our system of government, no one else matters nearly as much. Which is why the job of every Minister and staffer is prett

• Amazon has it at number one again - see above - on a couple of their lists. Grateful for that. • The excerpting of the book in The Free Press - circulation, two million, give or take - has kicked off all kinds of interest for it in the U.S. Grateful for that, as well. • The Australian, the biggest paper down under, plans to excerpt it as well. Grateful, Aussies. • The documentary The Campaign, based on the book, is getting its debut at the Tel Aviv International Documentary

Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question. A British court this week heard about what Palestine Action did on August 6, 2024. On that date, red-suited members of Palestine Action broke into Israeli-owned Elbit Systems in Bristol, England. They’d broken in using a decommissioned prison van as a battering ram, in the middle of the night. The prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, told Woolwich Town Court: “Inside the warehouse, they set about de

Today Kari Hollend and I are excited and honoured to share that our documentary, The Campaign, will have its world premier at the @docaviv Film Festival in Tel Aviv, taking place May 28-June 5. We will be there for it, too. The Campaign is a documentary that pulls back the curtain on modern information warfare: how narratives are manufactured, how division is monetized, and how digital propaganda is shaping the world we live in. What began as a film about strategy and influe

[It’s no accident that Hamas-inspired viewpoints have captured a generation. The terrorist group’s operatives rank among the most sophisticated users of social media in the world. The rise of antisemitism and anti-American sentiment across the West is something we’ve covered extensively at The Free Press in recent years. New incidents emerge almost daily; last night, anti-Israel protesters gathered near Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, waving Hezbollah flags and chanting “Se

From Adam Marks, podcaster and Boston guy. I really thought he got it. (Not the bestseller part, though!) "An altogether unsurprising but still brutal, devastating, and painfully numbing book to read, The Hidden Hand details the massive, clandestine, and decades-long virulently antisemitic propaganda campaign that is being waged against the State of Israel and the Jewish people, and that there is no doubt a “hidden hand” — Iran, Qatar, China, Russia, Hamas, etc. — that are pu

On November 4, 1993, my then-boss, Jean Chretien, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada. He posed for some pictures, met with his cabinet, and then he did two things. They were the first big decisions he made. He went into his new office and he cancelled a $6 billion helicopter contract. And then he cancelled a deal the Conservative Party had made to privatize Terminals 1 and 2 at Pearson Airport in Toronto. Took a pen, signed the papers. Boom. Gone. The cancellation of t

Charles Asher Small is a scholar of renown. His list of academic achievements are too many to list here. A short sampling: over his long career, Small has been associated with Oxford University, Yale University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, the Université de Montreal, and McGill University. He’s written or edited no small number of books and academic papers. Along the way, he founded the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and

So grateful to all of you who have picked up the book and helped spread the word. Pretty cool to be on the Canadian and main non-fiction lists, I gotta say.

Twenty years. Twenty years ago today, Daisy Group opened for business. I was nervous as Hell on that day, and on the days leading up to it, too. I had four little kids and one big mortgage, and I couldn’t afford to fail. I’d been a journalist at the Calgary Herald and the Ottawa Citizen, a partner at a Bay Street law firm, and Special Assistant to that Jean Chrétien guy – but there’d always been someone else responsible for the payroll. Not me. So, on May 1, 2006, I becam

Someone on Twitter pissed me off. She seemed to believe all Liberals are Jew-haters, forever, and only the Conservatives are good and decent. I pointed out a few facts. • Dief attended Klan rallies • Stanfield was a supporter of a Holocaust denier • King called Hitler a "sweet man" • Douglas championed Nazi eugenics It's all in my books, cited. And too much more. They all suck on this stuff. They all have documented bigotry in their histories. I know a little about the subjec

Anniversary of this. An important victory for the truth. Kristin Raworth is a woman who works for the Alberta government and who used to follow me on Twitter. About two years ago, Raworth publicly tweeted at me that she had been sexually harassed by Kent Hehr, a Liberal member of the federal cabinet who represented a Calgary riding. I quickly got in touch with Raworth privately, and cautioned her that she was making a serious allegation and that she needed proof. She insisted

One year ago today, Mark Carney’s Liberals won a majority government. One year later, there has been a lot of analysis about what Carney has accomplished in that year, and what he hasn’t. It’s a mixed bag, with much of the commentariat adopting a wait and see attitude. Voters, however, are pretty enthusiastic: Angus Reid’s pollsters say Carney is approved of by 60 per cent of Canadians, which is only a bit less than Jean Chretien was, a year in. Abacus says 54 per cent of Can

Good morning. Fascinating grouping. Universe balances out, I guess.

If you are a normal human, you are looking for ways to be immortal. You paint paintings. You sing songs. You build buildings. Some people run for high public office; they figure they’ll be remembered that way. Same with people who become soldiers, or athletes, or priests or rabbis or ministers, or teachers, or whatever. If they’re any good at it, they’ll be remembered for a while. Maybe a long while. Lots of ordinary people have kids. That’s one sure-fire way to be kind-of im