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Richard Warnica

Toronto

Business Feature Writer at The (Toronto) Star

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | thespec.com | Richard Warnica

    WASHINGTON — Outside the fence, the world raged on. In Minnesota, an assassin shot and killed a Democratic politician and her husband Saturday in a “politically motivated” attack. Israel bombed Iran for a third consecutive day. Iran fired back, to lesser effect. In Los Angeles, marines deployed to quell protests remained on the streets. They detained a man, a U.S. citizen, on American soil, before handing him over to the federal police. All across the U.S. on Saturday, the protests grew.

  • 4 weeks ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Richard Warnica

    Prologue: “And monarchs to behold the swelling scene”Having a king in 2025 is a bit like having tacky wallpaper in a second bathroom. It’s garish and a little embarrassing. But it’s not like you’re going to pay to have it changed — not now, when the roof needs patching and the dishwasher is on the fritz. A king, in other words, is an irritant but not a priority. You can ignore it most of the time. Except for those moments when you can’t.

  • 1 month ago | thespec.com | Richard Warnica

    Perhaps the single greatest advantage Prime Minister Mark Carney has over his predecessor is that he never seems to care about looking cool. If Justin Trudeau had danced at his own election party, it would have been a whole thing. He might have had a costume, or choreography. He definitely would have posed. When Carney danced, long after midnight after winning the first real election of his life, he looked like what he was: an unabashed Boomer dork just having a blast.

  • 1 month ago | thespec.com | Richard Warnica

    OTTAWA — Let the record show that Pierre Poilievre spent the dying weeks of an election campaign he should have won the same way he has spent most of his 20-year political career: pretending to be mad about something that was never real. Poilievre suffered a narrow but still remarkable political defeat Monday night. Ahead by 25 points in January, he finished the campaign behind Mark Carney’s Liberals in both the seat count and the popular vote.

  • 2 months ago | thespec.com | Richard Warnica

    We are not treated well, as you know, by Canada. Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year, plus other things. They don’t essentially have a military. They have a very small military. They rely on our military. It’s all fine, but they’ve got to pay for that. It’s very unfair. I have so many great friends. One of them is the Great One, Wayne Gretzky.