Justin Ling

1 day ago | thespec.com | Justin Ling

Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his new cabinet, and he has tasked his team with changing government. Not “small change,” he insisted, but “big change.”Applying the measuring tape to his new government, however, we can conclude that the freshly-elected prime minister is exaggerating just how radically different his new team really is. And in his medium-sized change cabinet, he has ditched talent for political expediency and overlooked star players while keeping dead weight around.

5 days ago | foreignpolicy.com | Justin Ling

For the past century, the United States and Canada have been the best of friends, and war between them was unimaginable. Before that, however, it was a possibility that was always at the back of mind for military strategists on both sides of the borders—in no small part because the two had gone to war before. Today, however, anxieties have flared.

2 weeks ago | globaldispatches.org | Mark Goldberg |Justin Ling

It’s rare for elections in Canada to carry significant global implications. But these are highly unusual times. Last night, Canadians delivered a victory to Mark Carney and his Liberal Party. This comes just a few months after the Liberals seemed poised to lose in a landslide to the ascendant Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre. But what a difference an American election makes.

2 weeks ago | therecord.com | Justin Ling

So the Liberals are now up to 167 seats: Still five seats short of a majority government. It dawns on me that, in an election that was supposed to be about delivering a strong mandate in order to respond to the most severe existential threat this country has faced in a century, neither man could clinch it. I wonder if anyone will learn the right lesson from that. More in Federal election rollie collection - April 28 (222 of 231) Read more

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Justin Ling

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