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If you know someone who thinks he or she is an expert on Canadian politics, here is a question to stump him or her with: Name any three persons who [...]

In the two years since I last wrote a column about Ireland, (1) important developments have taken place on the island of Ireland, both north and south. Enda Kenny, the [...]

In September 2016 I visited the Yasukuni Shrine, located in a pleasant Tokyo neighbourhood. Had I been a Japanese politician, this would have caused a commotion in some parts of [...]

Does history repeat itself? Toward the end of the 19th century the United States, having survived a terrible civil war, made the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy [...]

Few events in American political history have inspired more fear, dismay and anxiety than the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president. Never since the 19th century have so [...]

For Ireland, 2016 is an important year, the centennial of the Easter Rising that led to a war for independence, the partition of the country, a civil war and, eventually, [...]

Conrad Black, Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2014. 1,106 pages. Conrad Black is a Canadian phenomenon. Media mogul, [...]

When the Soviet regime collapsed in 1991 and the 'republics' that had been ruled by that regime for most of the 20th century became sovereign states, the response in much [...]

If you live in Canada and have not recently returned from a long sabbatical on another planet, you have probably heard the phrase missing Aboriginal women more often than you [...]

On February 6, 2014, Stephen Harper celebrated (or at least one presumes that he celebrated) his eighth anniversary as Prime Minister of Canada. Although not an unusually long time in [...]

The Canadian general election of May 2, 2011, was perhaps the most dramatic and surprising general election in 90 years. The closest parallel is 1921, when an entirely new party, [...]

Geoffrey Hale, The Politics of Taxation in Canada. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. 403 pages. In THE LAST DECADE OR MORE, ACADEMIC POLITICAL SCIENCE in Canada, insofar as it considers [...]

Garth Stevenson teaches political science at Brock University. He has just completed a book on the anglophone minority in Quebec politics, which will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Canadian [...]