Terry Glavin

Author, journalist. Ottawa Citizen & National Post columnist. Maclean's magazine refugee. Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.

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Terry Glavin: Trump didn't belong at G7

1 week ago | thesudburystar.com | Terry Glavin

Carney remains deathly afraid of the American president's tariff trigger-fingerU.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press as workers install a large flag pole on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on June 18, 2025.
Terry Glavin: Trump didn't belong at G7

1 week ago | nationalpost.com | Terry Glavin

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1Carney remains deathly afraid of the American president's tariff trigger-fingerArticle contentWith the conclusion of the G7 gathering in Kananaskis on Tuesday, it’s an open question whether the session was merely unproductive or downright counterproductive, but there’s one proposition that’s difficult to dispute, and it’s this. It would have been better had U.S. President Donald Trump been invited to stay away.
The end of the world as we know it

1 week ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

It’s been nearly two weeks since my last newsletter, posted in the middle of a summer hiatus. I hadn’t intended an absence this long but what the hell, I’m now back in the saddle at the National Post (We’re not Los Angeles yet, but. . .) and right away I want to thank my subscribers here for their patience. I’m slowly getting back into Real Story’s usual groove.
Terry Glavin: We're not Los Angeles yet, but it might be coming

2 weeks ago | nationalpost.com | Terry Glavin

Advertisement 1Despite Carney's vow to scale back immigration, the numbers keep going up — not counting those living here illegallyArticle contentAfter several days of riots and rabble-rousing in response to the Trump administration’s ham-fisted determination to round up illegal immigrants, downtown Los Angeles was placed under curfew on Tuesday. The disorder has spread to more than a dozen American cities. There have been scores of arrests.
Will the damage ever be undone?

3 weeks ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

Four years ago this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the flags lowered on all federal buildings across Canada. He’d already ordered the flags lowered on Parliament Hill over the weekend before. All the flags remained at half mast for six long months. There were riots. Statues of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, John A.
Where the heck have I been?

1 month ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

I won't say “enemy lines” because that would be silly, and ‘stranded’ is pushing it, but I'm stuck for the moment in the far reaches of the Occupied Columbia Territory, a term with which assiduously attentive Real Story subscribers will be familiar. For personal and historical background and for more recent subscribers, see the Real Story newsletters of May 19 and August 6 2024. The term involves my unrepentent irredentism, red in tooth and claw.
About my ma and about Pope Leo XIV

1 month ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

My mother the spy, as I used to call her. She passed through to Tir Na Nog on January 29, 2023. Marsha Lederman wrote a lovely tribute to her in the Globe and Mail here: Bletchley girl Eileen Glavin scanned the airwaves for German messages. My own tribute on the day of her passing, right here in The Real Story: This is not the Sunday newsletter I'd planned. Ma lived well, and bravely, a devout Catholic to her dying breath, like my father.
Are We Getting Canada Wrong Again?

1 month ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

Special American edition!Well, almost anyway. If there’s one thing Canadians of all political inclinations agree on it’s that what’s happened up here these past few weeks has been really, really strange, and the federal election result was very odd. You can’t blame Americans for being just as confused. So this Sunday’s Real Story edition is mainly for American subscribers.
Does the future belong to China?

1 month ago | therealstory.substack.com | Terry Glavin

That’s the underlying tension in my conversation with Stewart Muir of Power Struggle, a series of encounters with guests from industry, climate science, government and elsewhere, to probe the reality of modern energy. The case I make, as far as energy goes: Canada’s priority should be energy sovereignty. As for energy exports, we should be focused on getting LNG to Europe. We built a damn railway in the 19th century from coast to coast, for God’s sake.
Terry Glavin: Mark Carney owes Jagmeet Singh a massive thank you for NDP implosion

1 month ago | nationalpost.com | Terry Glavin

Advertisement 1Trump may not have been as big a factor in Liberal win as pundits suggestsArticle contentIt’s a verdict that’s rapidly embedding itself as the answer to the riddle of the Liberal party’s revival from its vegetative state as recently as last December to this week’s election-day comeback, only a handful of seats shy of a majority in the House of Commons: Party standard-bearer Mark Carney owes his triumph to Donald Trump.