Enzo DiMatteo
The Georgia Straight
Toronto, ON, Canada
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The real reason Doug Ford is staying above the Conservative party leadership fray
Ford has his own plans to be CPC leader—and wants to be there to pick up the pieces when the whole shithouse goes up in flames → Read More
Jean Charest’s leadership bid poses thorny questions for the future of the Conservative party
Most political pundits don't think Charest stands a chance, but the prospect of a Pierre Poilievre coronation just got trickier → Read More
Europe is left to confront Putin in Ukraine as U.S. takes a backseat
At some point, the world will have to call Putin's bluff to put an end to the madness, to what extent the U.S. will be there is another matter. → Read More
Can Jean Charest save the Conservative Party of Canada from itself?
The CPC would rather avoid a bloodbath that would end up splintering the party further but it seems unavoidable if the former Quebec premier decides to run for the leadership → Read More
Russian disinformation campaign rallies Canada’s far-right enemy within
Long before Putin fired a shot in Ukraine, he was laying the ground war for his assault on the West in cyberspace. → Read More
Pierre Poilievre's leadership bid marks a toxic turn for Canada's Conservatives
The pieces seem to be quickly falling into place for a coronation, but is the Trump knock-off the answer to unite a broken Conservative Party? → Read More
Novak Djokovic becomes a poster boy for antivaxxers, but he’s not the only celebrity COVID denier
We expect sports heroes to be superhuman and lead by example, but some of them don't think they have to play by the rules like the rest of us → Read More
Amid Omicron storm, Erin O’Toole calls for “accommodation” of the unvaccinated
An exorcism of ideologues in his base and among his advisers would be in order—if only O’Toole could stop being led around by the nose. → Read More
Five politicians (and political stories) to watch in 2022
It's Justin Trudeau against all odds, Erin O'Toole's bloody mess, crunch time for Jagmeet Singh, runaway Doug Ford and D-Day for John Tory in 2022 → Read More
Why we need to talk about Doug Ford’s daughter’s antivaccine views
Most media covering the premier have decided to give the premier’s daughter’s antivaxx views a pass. → Read More
Omicron is our second shot at COVID redemption
The pandemic dared us to dream big. It was supposed to be a siren call. We seem to have lost sight of that. → Read More
Is this the murderer of Barry and Honey Sherman or are Toronto police chasing a ghost?
Four years on, a source close to the police investigation says the killer (or killers) of the billionaire couple may not even be in Canada. → Read More
It’s a blue Christmas for Erin O’Toole as party support plummets
Ominously for O’Toole, his favourability ratings among party members have dropped to levels lower than Andrew Scheer before he was dumped. → Read More
Omicron: Is it time to panic yet?
The WHO has been warning for months that more contagious variants of the virus would emerge if the planet’s richest nations didn’t do more to supply vaccines to poorer countries. → Read More
Throne Speech pumps climate action, meanwhile in Wet’suwet’en…
A once-in-a-century pandemic is giving way to a climate crisis right before Canada’s eyes—it feels like 2020 all over again → Read More
#CdnMediaFail claps back at Conservative Twitter
The PM showed up late for Remembrance Day ceremonies on the Hill but Conservative partisans on Twitter couldn’t believe it had anything to do with a “suspicious package” found by the RCMP → Read More
Remembrance Day and reconciliation: Is it time to raise the flag?
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says flags flying at half-mast to remember residential school children should be raised as “a symbol of unity,” but that’s not the position of the Royal Canadian Legion Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says flags flying at half-mast to remember residential school children should be raised as “a symbol of unity,” but that’s not the position of → Read More
Erin O’Toole is toast—it’s only a matter of time
The issue of mandatory vaccines for MPs is now driving a wedge right through his caucus and messing with O’Toole’s plans to look like he's in charge. → Read More
On immigration, Doug Ford is full of baloney
Those not born in Canada know all too well the bland veiled racism of people who say all the right things while looking down their nose at them → Read More
Fear and shame won’t convince the vaccine hesitant to get their shot
Government mandates will only take us so far, in the end it will fall to the vaccinated to persuade the skeptical among us. → Read More