7 November 2008 The Threat of Green Obama By Gwynne Dyer President-elect Barack Obama has inherited the in-box from hell, but you could practically smell the fear in some other quarters as he listed his top priorities in his victory speech in Chicago: “two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a …
10 August 2007 Arctic Scramble By Gwynne Dyer Among the headlines I never expected to see, the top three were “Pope Marries,” “President Bush Admits Error,” and “Canada Uses Military Might,” but there it was, staring up at me from a British newspaper: “Canada Uses Military Might in Arctic Scramble.” Read a little further into …
23 November 2006 Canada: The Dog Woke Up By Gwynne Dyer “Michael Ignatieff strode back into Canada bearing gilt-edged promises that he had kept a close watch on our political evolution during his decades on foreign soil and that he would be appropriately sensitive to our sociopolitical nuances. He then, by stating a position on …
3 June 2006 The International Terrorist Conspiracy By Gwynne Dyer They arrested seventeen alleged Islamist terrorists in and around Toronto on Saturday, most of them young and Canadian-born. They had bought three tonnes of ammonium nitrate, and are accused of planning to bomb targets in southern Ontario. Shock! Horror! How could this happen here? Canada …
17 November 2005 Quebec’s New Hero By Gwynne Dyer He’s young for a party leader (39), he’s gay, and he admits that he took cocaine “on a few occasions” while serving as a minister in the Quebec government in the late 90s. In fact, Andre Boisclair is practically ideal for the task of winning back …
28 February 2005 The Secret of Ballistic Missile By Gwynne Dyer This week’s tempest in a teapot in Canada has been Prime Minster Paul Martin’s long-delayed decision not to take part in the US project for ballistic missile defence (BMD). Canada will share radar information about any incoming missile with the United States through the …
3 November 2004 The Divided States: A Modest Proposal By Gwynne Dyer Looking at that extraordinary electoral map of the United States with all the liberal, quiche-eating, Kerry-supporting states of the north-east and the west coast coloured Democratic blue while the “heartland” and the south were solid Republican red, the solution to the problem suddenly …
23 June 2004 Canada: The Master’s Revenge? By Gwynne Dyer The time limit for a majority government in a two-party system is now usually ten to twelve years. After that, it is living on borrowed time. Neither major party in the United States has held the White House for more than twelve years since Franklin …
15 March 2004 Waiting for the Canadian Hordes By Gwynne Dyer Dr Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and co-founder of ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine, is like a dog that has only one trick: we’ve all seen it before, but he won’t stop doing it. We’re going to have …
September 26th 1998 The Last Days of the War on Drugs By Gwynne Dyer I noticed the ashtray winking up at me as soon as I sat down at the table. I was having dinner at an auberge at the far end of L’De d’Orleans, and it seemed to be saying: “This is Quebec, where …