The Journal Pioneer

SAINT-TITE, Quebec — In this entirely enchanting part of Quebec, not far from Shawinigan, there is a little slice of Alberta – home of the biggest Western fair in the country east of Calgary. The town’s regular population of ...

I just read a book about the 1960s. It has all kinds of great historical pieces on people and events of that glorious decade, year by year. (The part that confuses me is it was published in 1953 and written by a single moniker person named ...

Have you ever thought that 535 random people off the street would do a decidedly better job than the duly elected members of the U.S. Congress? If so, you’ve been scooped by a few millennia. The idea of selecting government officials at random, ...

There are unmistakeable Putinesque aspects to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the SNC affair: arm twisting of bureaucrats, a minister mysteriously removed from her post, misleading responses to questions, refusal to lift cabinet ...

Let her speak. That was the headline on an iconic Toronto Sun headline way back in February: let her speak. Let Jody Wilson-Raybould — then still a cabinet minister, then still a member of the Liberal caucus — tell Canadians what ...

“If you are the next prime minister of Canada, what will your government do to defend the rights of Canadians in Quebec?” The question is addressed to the leaders of the federal parties. And voters deserve a clear answer from each of ...

There’s nothing like a bit of distance to gain a little perspective about the dynamics of this 43rd Canadian general election. I’ve been in the United Kingdom, the cradle of our parliamentary tradition, a place where politics is never ...

And they’re off! If the pre-writ is prologue, we’ve now launched into what will be the most partisan election campaign since 2006’s “Soldiers in our streets” low-water mark, as one-time wunderkind Justin Trudeau faces ...

It is important for political leaders to have overarching goals that remain in place even as the campaign ground shifts beneath their feet. I have never been a political strategist. But, as a journalist, I have been on multiple media buses to ...

First, it was the federal ethics commissioner. Now, according to a story from by the Globe and Mail, the RCMP is finding that they can’t fully investigate whether obstruction of justice took place in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, because the ...