Kim Richard Nossal

Aug 18, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Kim Richard Nossal

The enduring popularity of the America First agenda in the US is a major threat to Canada. America First is marked by an enthusiasm for protectionism; an isolationism resurrected from the 1930s; a rejection of the very idea of global governance; an indifference towards a global leadership role for the US; an embrace of illiberal and authoritarian leaders; and a concomitant disdain for America's traditional friends and allies in the West. America First's prime exponent is, of course, Donald J.

May 8, 2024 | policymagazine.ca | Colin Robertson |Kim Richard Nossal

|In Featured Review, Policy SpecialCanada Alone: Navigating the Post-American WorldBy Kim Richard NossalDundurn Press/September 2023Reviewed by Colin RobertsonMay 8, 2024There is a stark message in Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World. Should Donald Trump regain the US presidency, warns Kim Richard Nossal, we should be prepared for him to abandon America’s role as leader of the West.

Feb 29, 2024 | policyoptions.irpp.org | Kim Richard Nossal

Brian Mulroney’s tenure as prime minister from 1984 to 1993 demonstrates the appropriateness of the hoary Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.” For Mulroney was prime minister at a time of a radical transformation in politics, in Canada, in North America, and globally, even though those changes were not always evident in September 1984 when Mulroney led the Progressive Conservative party to victory, with a massive majority in the House of Commons.

Dec 21, 2023 | reviewcanada.ca | Kim Richard Nossal |Srdjan Vucetic

Barring a massive surprise, the upcoming United States presidential election will be a rematch of sorts: eighty-one-year-old Joe Biden, this time as the Democratic incumbent, versus seventy-eight-year-old Donald Trump, the former incumbent and now the leading candidate for the Republican nomination. If polling is correct, a plurality of voters in most key states prefer the latter.

Nov 22, 2023 | opencanada.org | Kim Richard Nossal

Donald J. Trump is the leading contender for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. There are six other candidates who are also seeking the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in Milwaukee next July, but Trump leads the field by margins of up to 50 points. Only three of the other candidates can poll between 5 and 13 per cent; the other two are lucky if their polling numbers are greater than 1. The Republican party continues to be in thrall to Trump.