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In politics, there’s kicking a hornet’s nest, and there’s tripping over one. Typing up a column about Don Cherry’s suitability for the Order of Canada without being asked to? That’s kicking a hornet’s nest. But here goes. Everyone has an opinion about the former hockey broadcaster. Mine is this: he made hockey games entertaining. He did. Cherry was like Donald Trump, in that you never knew what he was going to say next. But, unlike Trump, Cherry didn’t seem to revel in being

One sign shows a stooped and feral Orthodox Jewish man, wearing a kippah atop stringy, payot sidelocks, his eyes black like an animal. Another features the same sort of image: a weeping Orthodox Jew, his nose hooked and exaggerated, begging the United States for salvation. Behind him, another man waves around a sign bearing Israel’s flag, and the word ELIMINATED. A woman, her face visible, holds up a sign that reads in Arabic: “We will knock on the gates of Heaven with the

2026 has been the longest decade in a Century. Here.

The media is in the simplification business. We try to simplify reality. In a world that is complex and cruel and fast-moving, our preferred question often is: “Why did it happen?” Assigning motive following newsworthy events - terrible, horrific events - is what we usually focus on first. A madman gets in his pickup, armed with a gun, with about $2,000 worth of explosives loaded in the back. And then he drives through the doors of Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield,

For Israel, arguably the most consequential foreign policy achievement happened on October 25, 2009. At a wedding. On that date, Jared Kushner married Ivanka Trump, who had earlier that year converted to Judaism. Of their union, the President of the United States would later tell Israel’s Knesset: “[Jared] truly loves Israel…In fact, he loves it so much that my daughter converted…I didn’t know this was going to happen.” “At least, I think they’re happy. If they’re not, we hav

Surveying the headlines, if you feel there is what looks like a coordinated campaign underway to demonize and terrorize Jews - and others - you are right: there is . I document it all in my book The Hidden Hand , out now in eBook form, and out in hardcover next month You can get it up here .

Leon Panetta, the revered former U.S. Secretary of Defence, is speaking about war. “Leaders have to understand,” Panetta says in an interview. “That when you send people into war, you better damn well have a very clear mission for what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.” He pauses. “And, if you constantly change that mission…that really begins to screw up what soldiers are thinking. The reason they’re out there, putting their lives on the line. It begins to hurt your own

Adrienne Batra, Brian Lilley and me on Mark Carney's ever-changing position on the Iran war. For it? Sort-of against it? Ready to send troops? What? Check it out.

John Tory - who I helped get elected, twice - is out. He made the right decision: as the Toronto Integrity Commissioner ruled, Tory broke the law, twice . He had to go. As you all know, I months ago indicated I'd be supporting my friend and Beaches councillor Brad Bradford for the job. He represents positive change. And, according to Abacus' David Coletto this morning, Toronto agrees. Check out these numbers and David's analysis: "For the better part of a year, Toronto polit

The decision was absolutely, unreservedly the right one. Israel and America’s decision to move against the Iranian regime, that is. For decades, Iran’s Islamist leaders have murdered and brutalized their own people - and exported terror all around the globe . So the decision to take action was the right one, and it was overdue. But make no mistake: the Israel-America-Iran conflict is likely to become very unpopular, very soon. Ten reasons. 1. Leadership. Donald Trump is the

Ali Khamenei is dead. The Iranian regime's "supreme leader" - who presided over a decades-long campaign of murder and brutality against his own people, and sponsored acts of terror around the world - has been eliminated, fittingly, by an Israeli. War is always easy to start, and harder to end. Yes. But this war, at least, is starting with an historic victory over hate. We shouldn't be naïve, of course. While their "supreme leader" may be gone,the Iranian Islamic dictatorship

Getting a tattoo is a big decision. I know. I’ve got several. When people see them - four ravens and/or crows, two totems, one family crest, a bit of Latin, a Haida myth, a New Order lyric, family member initials - they’re often surprised. Tattoos can be controversial. For many Jews, tattoos are even more controversial. Some note that Jewish law - as decreed in Leviticus 19:28 - strictly forbids tattoos. The human body is effectively on loan from God, and it is not to be i

...and I think I may need to unpack. I very much doubt our press mission is happening, at this point. I'd still go, in a New York minute. But - as I've experienced before - airlines are going to start cancelling flights and it's going to be hard to get there, and even harder to get out. So, prayers for Israel, and prayers for the people of Iran. And we wait.

Hey, look: this started to come out this week. E-book first, hardcover later. ** Win the gold, turn it into tin by currying favor with a fascist. That's America's men's hockey team. That team, in fact, has reminded us all that Trump's departure isn't going to make us all magically like America again. After Trump, Americans are still going to be pretty easy to intensely dislike. Because Trump is America, now, and America is Trump. Remember, Team USA: Trump destroys everything

Already? E. spotted this last night on Amazon (and, yes, we hate Bezos' online flea market, too, but when you live in a rural area, it's pretty hard to avoid). According to Amazon, my new book The Hidden Hand is number four in Amazon's "political doctrines" books, number nine in "political ideologies" books, and waaaaaaaay back in plain old bestsellers. Given that the e-book version only became available on Tuesday, none of that seems very likely, to me. And, yes, I know tha

Michael Bauer has the best story about the looming Iran-Israel-America war. It’s about his two sons. The weekend is coming, and the Israeli author’s sons are arguing about who should get to use the family car. “I need the car on Friday,” says Bauer’s oldest son. “No, I’ll need the car on Friday,” says his younger son, “unless there’ll be a war, and then I won’t need the car.” The older brother agrees: if there’s a war with Iran, he won’t really need the car, either. The sold-