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Need to Know: Mark Carney looks to make his mark

1 month ago | thehub.ca | Sean Speer |Howard Anglin |Sabrina Maddeaux

Welcome to Need to Know, The Hub’s roundup of experts and insiders providing insights into the political stories and developments Canadians need to be keeping an eye on this week. Mark Carney is no Michael IgnatieffBy Sean Speer, The Hub’s editor-at-largeMark Carney’s entrance into elected politics has drawn comparisons to former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. The comparison isn’t without any justification. They’re both highly credentialed and successful.
‘An uninspiring yawnfest’: The Hub reacts to the Liberal Party’s English-language leader’s debate

1 month ago | thehub.ca | Rudyard Griffiths |Howard Anglin |John Ibbitson |Harrison Lowman

Last night marked the final debate of the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Former deputy prime minister Chystia Freeland, former central banker Mark Carney, former cabinet minister Karina Gould, and one-time Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis squared off for the party’s English-language debate in Montreal.
Need to Know: America’s future is up for grabs-who will grab the wheel?

2 months ago | thehub.ca | Howard Anglin |Kirk LaPointe

Welcome to Need to Know, The Hub’s roundup of experts and insiders providing insights into the political stories and developments Canadians need to be keeping an eye on this week. Trump is a spectacle, but peek behind the curtain for the real showBy Howard Anglin, former deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen HarperTrump may be the most important figure of the 21st century, but in the long term he is not a particularly interesting one.
Howard Anglin: Imagine? No thanks, John

Jan 13, 2025 | thehub.ca | Howard Anglin

As far as heresies go, John Lennon’s “Imagine” has to be the most hummable, but the ex-Beatle’s gentle ode to nihilism is no less sinister for that. It is especially jarring when played at a Christian service, as it was for Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC last week. I’m genuinely surprised the dean approved it, even if he is Episcopalian.
Justin Trudeau has been an embarrassing failure

Jan 8, 2025 | thecritic.co.uk | Howard Anglin

He leaves Canada poorer, weaker and more divided Michael Ignatieff, who was a bad politician but remains a very clever man, had the measure of Justin Trudeau, his successor as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, when he said that prime minister of Canada is “the role he was born to play.” It was a neatly double-barbed put-down that managed to skewer both Trudeau’s nepotistic privilege and his notorious penchant for amateur dramatics.
Howard Anglin: The Governor General should not allow Trudeau to prorogue to hold a full Liberal leadership race

Jan 4, 2025 | thehub.ca | Howard Anglin

Of all the options facing Justin Trudeau, the most interesting would be to announce that he intends to resign and to ask the Governor General to prorogue Parliament so that the Liberal Party can hold a leadership contest to choose a new leader.
The shame of the Oxford Union

Dec 1, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Howard Anglin

A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace The most infamous debate in history of the Oxford Union is, by common acclaim, the endorsement in 1933 of the proposition that “this House would under no circumstances fight for its King and country”. “Abject, squalid, shameless …disquieting and disgusting” was Winston Churchill’s verdict, while The Times dismissed the affair as “children’s hour”. Now, after more than ninety years, that debate has competition in the annals of infamy.
The Undoing of Justin Trudeau | Howard Anglin

Nov 26, 2024 | firstthings.com | Howard Anglin

For a brief moment, the re-election of Donald Trump must have given the unpopular Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, a shiver of hope. He could be forgiven a flashback to the happier days of 2016 when, still fresh off his own victory, the world’s press hailed him as the progressive answer to the glowering challenge of Trump’s presidency. And he would hardly be human if he didn’t wonder, briefly, if history—and public opinion—might in fact be cyclical.
Howard Anglin: Why we remember

Nov 11, 2024 | thehub.ca | Howard Anglin

To the poppy, the Last Post, and the two-minutes silence, recent years have added new Remembrance Day traditions: the iconoclastic columnist decrying the fetishisation of an anachronistic holiday, news stories about young people anxious about the message that wearing a poppy sends—and, of course, indignant responses to these stories from poppy red-cheeked conservative columnists.
Howard Anglin: How societies end

Oct 26, 2024 | thehub.ca | Howard Anglin

Crumbling is not an instant’s ActA fundamental pauseDilapidation’s processesAre organized Decays. ~Emily DickinsonIt is impossible to spend time among the white bones of ancient Athens and not feel the tug of entropy. At the Parthenon I watched a crane lift an enormous block of marble forty feet in the air, where four workers carefully fit it in place. When I asked my guide how long it will take to complete the reconstruction, he told me the work will never be finished.