Les Whittington

The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of inequality.

From an enemy of organized labour, Poilievre now depicts himself as something akin to the saviour of Canada’s workers.

The strange part is that the populists seem to take it for granted that their voters won’t notice that they’ve voted against their own interests.

The economy may have to be guided toward near-recessionary levels to compensate for the housing bubble’s outsized impact on Canadians’ cost of living.

It’s not at all clear that the Trudeau Liberals are playing the same game as their opponents.

We know that a decade of personal and corporate tax cuts under the Paul Martin and Stephen Harper governments failed to produce the hoped-for economic boom.

Despite Trump's rejection of the most fundamental of democratic principles, millions of would-be voters appear ready to entrust their government and their democracy to him again.

Regardless of when the rate cut happens, Canada is entering a new era in which the bias is toward lower borrowing costs instead of higher.

The G7 is now at the forefront of anti-authoritarian forces in the deepening geostrategic struggle magnified by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The federal byelection on June 24 will be an important marker as Canadians watch how all this plays out for their democracy and their futures.