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1 week ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Advertisement 1Living in a cottage on the grounds of the Governor General's residence just reinforces the notion of Canada as a second-class country. Article contentIt’s official: Mark Carney prefers the cottage to his home.
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2 weeks ago | 
readtheline.ca | Andrew MacDougall
By: Andrew MacDougallEven though we live in a time where each day produces a thousand fresh outrages, the sight of Donald Trump and Elon Musk duking it out last week in full view of the public still managed to stun. What began as an offhand Musk critique of Trump’s budget, the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” quickly went thermonuclear. “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’” Trump tweeted.
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4 weeks ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Advertisement 1A nation has a national capital for a reason. Big events need to happen on big — and symbolic — stages. Article contentWatching the King of Canada hold court at the temporary home of the Senate this week felt like history being made. And like history coming back to life.
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4 weeks ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Andrew MacDougall
King Charles arrives at the Senate to deliver the Speech from the Throne on May 27. Symbolism matters, says Andrew MacDougall. (Credit: Postmedia)Watching the King of Canada hold court at the temporary home of the Senate this week felt like history being made. And like history coming back to life. Yes, the scenes of King Charles and Queen Camilla harkened back to previous visits by other royals, most notably the late Queen Elizabeth when she opened Parliament in 1977.
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1 month ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yanan Wu |Ruiyang Zhang |Andrew MacDougall |Dashuan Tian
1 Introduction Wetlands, characterised by the presence of standing water and/or saturated soils for all or part of the year, are a huge reservoir of soil organic carbon (Mitsch and Gosselink 2007; Nahlik and Fennessy 2016). Although wetlands account for only 6% of the global land area, they account for approximately 30% of the carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems (Stewart et al. 2024).
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1 month ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Advertisement 1It's great to have three people representing Ottawa-Gatineau around the cabinet table. But will cabinet really have any influence under Mark Carney? Article contentPolitical cabinet-making has always been more about where the wood is sourced than how useful the resulting product. Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentArticle contentSeen from this perspective, three cabinet positions for the National Capital Region is a respectable haul.
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1 month ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Advertisement 1There wasn’t a place we could go as a family in Ottawa where Dr. Greg MacDougall didn’t bump into one of his patients or political contacts. Article contentMy father’s formal political career might have begun on Ottawa city council in 1980, but it peaked in the Prime Minister’s Office in the early 2010s. At least that was the little joke I told him when he visited me during my time as director of communications to Stephen Harper.
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1 month ago | 
readtheline.ca | Andrew MacDougall
By: Andrew MacDougallSometimes politics is a sonofabitch. Just ask Pierre Poilievre. The one-time mega-majority certainty is now the former MP for Carleton, and reportedly making calls to head off any potential caucus coup. The Conservative party he leads is, once again, colonizing the opposition benches. Boring boomer Mark Carney remains the prime minister. Boot, meet balls. As ever when taking an “L,” the key will be to draw the correct lessons.
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2 months ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Advertisement 1The showdowns this week prove Mark Carney isn’t God, and Pierre Poilievre isn’t the devil. And Jagmeet Singh is doomed. Article contentDebates matter in political campaigns. Or maybe they did, but no longer do? Or perhaps they hadn’t come to matter, but now do thanks to the massive interest in current events prompted by Donald Trump. Whatever the case, (INSERT YOUR PREFERRED CANDIDATE) won this week’s federal election debates. Unless they didn’t.
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2 months ago | 
ottawacitizen.com | Andrew MacDougall
Unfortunately, he won't stay quiet. So Pierre Poilievre needs to stop reminding Canadians of the U.S. president. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentPity poor Pierre Poilievre. You study your whole life for an exam only to find out at the last minute that the subject has changed and that your fellow student, your rival for class president from next door, is a subject matter expert. Talk about rotten luck.
