The weekend attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was at least the third attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. It also threatened administration officials, journalists, and the people assigned to protect them — a Secret Service agent was injured. Unfortunately, it was just the latest incident in a rising tide of shootings, fire-bombings, and other politically motivated acts of violence that currently plagues the United States. Read More

To get straight to the point about the federal government’s spring economic update: the Liberals are spending even more of our money than they previously estimated. This fiscal year, program spending is now expected to be $536.2 billion, which is $7.6 billion higher than in the fall budget. The new spending projections for the following year are also higher than in the fall budget, and the same for the year after that, and even the year after that. All told, the Liberals’ economic update raises program spending by a cumulative $25 billion over four years versus their fall budget and they now propose to push spending to $575.4 billion by 2029-30. Read More

Two Australian academics working in “celebrity studies” published an article this month that refers to J.K. Rowling’s fame in the past tense and argues that Rowling has morphed into the evil fictional supervillain of her own series. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has baffled Conservatives. This can be seen in the party's failure to update a strategy that was targeted towards Justin Trudeau's obnoxiously progressive tenure in office. Whether they like it or not, Carney is not Trudeau. All this approach has accomplished has been to permit the current prime minister to remain high in the polls by simply being a different person than Trudeau, who had become so broadly unpopular that anyone displaying a modicum of competence would have succeeded with voters. Read More

This week marks 78 years since Israel achieved independence in 1948. The story of the Jewish people is the story that any leader with a winning mindset can understand and draw inspiration from. This is a story of a people who were exiled from their homeland, the land of Israel, more than 2,500 years ago. Despite untold hardship culminating with the Holocaust from 1939-1945, they rose to establish one of the most successful democratic nations in modern times. Read More

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I do not expect that my sons will choose to stay in Canada when they are adults. Certainly not if this country stays on its current trajectory — namely, on our slow and agonizing decline. Read More

One of the clearest dividends of the war with Iran has been the heightened vigilance of security services worldwide, which have moved decisively to dismantle Iranian-linked terror networks — most recently in the United Arab Emirates, where authorities say they disrupted a cell accused of plotting sabotage and destabilization. Read More

The Liberals now have their majority in the House of Commons, but the implications of that change may be more significant than Canadians realize. It's not just that the Liberals will have an easier time passing legislation or that they no longer have to worry about confidence votes. In this interview with Rob Breakenridge, former Conservative MP Damien Kurek warns that the important work of committees in scrutinizing legislation and holding government to account is about to be trampled in what he calls a "democratic sin." Read More

Though no one in British Columbia’s current NDP government will say it, it’s clear that David Eby’s days as premier are numbered. He has backed himself into a corner from which there can be no escape, despite his preference to protect his own political skin at the expense of the prosperity of British Columbians.  Read More

Viktor Orbán’s fall from power in Hungary last weekend proves that even the most entrenched, politically captured states are not immortal. Read More

Three years ago, the acting vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Anthony Freeling, made a confession, widely reported in the British press. He confessed that he was baffled by "decolonization." The word, he said, “has been misused to such an extent that I don’t think, if I’m honest, I can give an accurate definition.” Read More

There is no great mystery behind why some nations are wealthy and others are not. The policy mix varies very little and is well understood. Countries with lower, neutral tax systems, minimal regulations, the rule of law and openness to international trade and foreign investment are wealthier than countries with higher taxes, more complicated regulations, and which are closed off to the world. Economies are the sum of the countless decisions made by people on what to buy or sell, where to invest, or where to work. Read More