Stephen Maher

2 weeks ago | gzeromedia.com | Stephen Maher

Mark Carney, who has never sat in Parliament and has only been a politician for four months, faces a lot of political puzzles after leading his Liberal Party to victory in Canada on Monday, and one huge challenge south of the border. The former central banker was widely expected to win a majority but ended up coming short, with 169 seats in the House, just three short of a majority. That means that the path ahead is twistier than it would otherwise have been.

2 weeks ago | gzeromedia.com | Stephen Maher

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2 weeks ago | time.com | Stephen Maher

Donald Trump’s name wasn’t on the ballots Canadians marked on Monday, but he looks like the night’s big loser. Mark Carney won the election by running against Trump every day for six weeks, delivering an anti-annexation message that allowed him to bring the Liberal Party back from the grave, a sudden, 30-point turnaround without precedent.

2 weeks ago | ricochet.media | Stephen Maher

Nobody even thinks about booing when Miss Rodeo Taber, Shaylynn Amen, rides out on horseback, holding the Stars and Stripes aloft as she gallops around the arena while Bill Lawson sings the American anthem, a capella, in a gravelly but tuneful cowboy baritone. This is not a hockey game in eastern Canada, where the Star-Spangled Banner has regularly been booed. The fans waiting in the stands to watch the bucking-horse riders risk life and limb in the Taber Agri-Plex don’t have their elbows up.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Stephen Maher

When the previous leader of Canada's Conservatives - Erin O'Toole - took over his party in 2020, he brought in Hanbury Strategy, a British political consultancy, to conduct some polling and offer advice. The Brits were surprised by the results of their research. They told O'Toole they were struck by how difficult it was for Conservatives to win elections in Canada, compared with those in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.