A nastily contrariwise way of remembering Tim Russert was published Friday in Canada’s most important newspaper, the Globe and Mail, by one of its best-known columnists, Rick Salutin. Russert was a ...

Last Sunday's Spanish election and the new government's plan to withdraw its troops from Iraq were not well received by North American opinion makers. A Globe editorial said it gave a "gold-plated ...

Senior Editor Paul Jay sat down with Rick Salutin to discuss the sudden rise in the polls of the Liberal Party, just days before the Canadian election. Salutin talked about the fact that the ...

In the second part of their interview, Senior Editor Paul Jay and Rick Salutin discuss the degree by which political discourse is affected by both elections and moments of crisis. Rick believes that ...

While Rick Salutin dislikes violent methods when dealing with religious fundamentalism and its main export -- terrorism -- he is unable to offer any clearly viable proposal on how to solve that ...

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister seems to almost prefer being disliked. He’s “the guy who’s stealing Christmas to keep you safe” and he “did not get into politics for the adulation,” Rick Salutin ...

Whew. Maclean’s issue ranking Canadian universities, just out, still bases its ratings on what goes on in them, rather than their success in supplying grads with jobs. Everywhere else in the debate ...

Abstract: Columnist Rick Salutin says both the NDP and the CBC are defending themselves against charges of a leftism that doesn’t exist. Opinion Headlines Newsletter Take a stand with this regular ...

One of the abiding mysteries of Canadian politics is how the NDP manages not to succeed. I say this because it seems to me they represent exactly what mainstream Canadian political culture has come to ...

I've found the New Orleans coverage gripping, not due to the disaster, which feels familiar, but because of the illumination, which seems rare. It's had a sort of "pull back the curtain" quality.

It is getting hard to see what fundamentalism has to do with religion. Take the Beslan carnage. What was it really about except a brutalized nationalism? The attackers' sole demand was for Russia to ...