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History That Matters

In my column for the National Post , I discuss the importance of the latest issue of the Dorchester Review : I've written before about Canada's important new historical journal, the Dorchester Review. Now they have published a second issue - and I am doing it again. This opening …

Written by David Frum on Saturday December 31, 2011

Canadian Politics Get Americanized

In my column for the National Post I discuss the investigation of Treasury Board President Tony Clement: Last month, the RCMP announced that it had found no basis for further investigation of Treasury Board President Tony Clement. In 2010, a former Liberal MP had asked the RCMP to …

Written by David Frum on Saturday December 10, 2011

Will Canada Repeal its Hate Speech Law?

A virtue of minority governments in Canada is that the ruling party has got to pay attention to its Parliamentary opposition, and must negotiate compromises. A negative is that legislation can get mired in debate and nothing happens. A virtue of majority governments is that worthwhile …

Written by Peter Worthington on Wednesday November 23, 2011

Sharia Banking is Bad Islam

At Huffington Post Canada , Tarek Fatah explains why the Canadian experiment in Sharia banking has collapsed: The leading promoter of Sharia banking in Canada, UM Financial Inc. has gone into receivership without much fanfare. None of the nation's newspapers have bothered to report the …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Tuesday October 18, 2011

Recovery First, Fiscal Discipline Second

In my column for the National Post , I explain why long term deficit reduction needs to happen after the economy recovers, not before: That's why the bottom of a bad recession is a bad time to worry about deficits. The recession makes the deficit problem look bigger than it really is. …

Written by David Frum on Saturday October 15, 2011

Despite the Downturn, Canada Prospers

In 2007, the line ran down the street, as people queued to get in on the action. Some apparently waited for days hoping to purchase a condo in a building to be built. With such demand, the developers kept upping the unit prices – literally posting the ever-rising prices on a billboard. The …

Written by David Gratzer on Wednesday October 5, 2011

Who Wins & Loses in McGuinty's Ontario

In my column for the National Post , I discuss the various political windfalls that have characterized Dalton McGuinty's reign as Premiere of Ontario: Politics is about who gets what, when, and how. Let's apply that famous definition to Dalton McGuinty's Ontario: Who has been getting …

Written by David Frum on Saturday October 1, 2011

Why Canada Can't Win Forever

In my column for the National Post , I ask if Canada is about to face an economic downturn: Is Canada’s luck finally running out? Through three bad economic years, Canada has emerged as an island of relative stability amid the global storm. More Canadians are working today than were …

Written by David Frum on Saturday September 24, 2011

Even if You're Pro-Immigration...

... what's now being proposed in Ontario, Canada, should shock you. Canada's largest province votes in a provincial election early next month. Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty is seeking a third term. It's a tough re-elect for McGuinty. Once effortlessly economically dominant, Ontario is …

Written by David Frum on Tuesday September 13, 2011

Why Bush Didn't Mention Canada After 9/11

After the horror and grief of the 9/11 attacks came a distinctively Canadian after-shock: The jolt of a seeming direct insult to Canada by the president of the United States. Nine days after the attacks, president George W. Bush addressed both houses of Congress. The president opened with …

Written by David Frum on Saturday September 10, 2011

Don't Dianify Jack Layton

The funeral is done, the mourning crowds have dispersed, the media has turned to other things – but in the wake of Jack Layton’s too-early death at age 61, he has somehow become an icon, sanctified as a symbol for a better Canada. By dying at the peak of his political career, before he’d …

Written by Peter Worthington on Monday August 29, 2011

Remembering Jack Layton

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Written by David Frum on Saturday August 27, 2011

Listen to this Canadian Politeness Expert

Here is Miranda Frum doing her first radio interview, discussing her blogpost on Canadian vs. U.S. politeness.

Written by David Frum on Saturday August 27, 2011

In Death, Jack Layton Becomes an Icon

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Written by Peter Worthington on Tuesday August 23, 2011

Courts Must Say Who is a Security Risk

In the bad old days of the Cold War, when Soviet espionage and subversion was rampant, it was a given that in questions of security versus individual rights, preference was given to the state. In other words, in sensitive areas of national security, if suspicions of treason or of being …

Written by Peter Worthington on Monday August 15, 2011

Canada's Uneasy Quiet

My column in today's National Post expresses worry whether Canada's relative prosperity can continue to survive global economic turbulence: Canada increased its exports by $26.7-billion in 2010 over 2009. Almost 80% of that increase was driven by sales of automotive products into the U.S. …

Written by David Frum on Saturday August 6, 2011

Does Canada's NDP Need Jack Layton?

I doubt there are many Canadians who don’t feel a pang of sympathy, even empathy, with the New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton as he fights a new bout against cancer. The oddity, even tragedy of his present situation, is that he’s at the peak of his career – he has almost iconic …

Written by Peter Worthington on Thursday July 28, 2011

Choosing Our Energy Priorities

We want three things from our energy policy but we can achieve (at most) two at the same time: Energy that is cheap, energy that is secure, and energy that is clean. Human Eve nts offers a "Top 10" list of reasons to think that President Obama favors expensive energy. Here's number eight: …

Written by David Frum on Monday June 27, 2011

Conrad Black Sent Back To Prison

Some outside lawyers believed the judge would take into account the frailty of the prosecution case, coupled with Black's model behavior in prison, and free him. While disappointing to most who have followed the case, it shouldn’t be surprising that Chicago Judge Amy St. Eve is sending Conrad …

Written by Peter Worthington on Friday June 24, 2011

Ed Schultz's Secret Canadian Connection

It turns out that Ed Schultz has a little-known connection to Canada. MSNBC's Ed Schultz has a secret past ... as a Winnipeg Blue Bomber in the Canadian Football League . Schultz had a brief tryout with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1979 and then returned to Fargo to work as a sports broadcast…

Written by David Frum on Friday May 27, 2011