David Moscrop
Washington Post
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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The wrong way to fix Ontario’s health-care crisis
There are better approaches to easing the strain on the public system. → Read More
Canada must support the migrants it’s letting in to fill jobs
With Canada's new immigration plan, 1.45 million newcomers will need job placement, housing, health care and other services. → Read More
Rage has poisoned public life in Canada
In a democracy, reactionary grievance politics that produce violence should be intolerable. → Read More
It’s Poilievre’s Conservative Party. That’s bad news for Canada.
Poilievre's toxic populist conservatism ought to worry the country. → Read More
Canada’s internet outage should encourage us to dismantle our telecom oligopoly
The Rogers outage demonstrated that leaving the operation and security of telecommunications to a handful of corporations is unwise and dangerous. → Read More
Trudeau’s sweeping gun control bill is no knee-jerk reaction
The Canadian government’s rationale is that limiting the supply of guns will limit the number of potential vectors of violence. → Read More
Doug Ford’s win in Ontario must be a wake-up call against complacency
The culture war in Ontario played a notable role in returning Ford, a fact that went unnoticed by many. → Read More
When will Canada’s Conservatives take climate change seriously?
And when will Canada's Liberals take it seriously enough? → Read More
Doug Ford’s disastrous government should not be given another term
Despite four years of bungling, buffoonery and cruelty, Ford just might hold on to his parliamentary majority. → Read More
Pierre Poilievre’s infuriating campaign to be Canada’s Conservative leader
The danger of a such a populist campaign is that it captures and stokes resentment while building up expectations that are unlikely to be met. → Read More
Why the new deal keeping Canada’s government in power is not ‘backdoor socialism’
A little stability and predictability is welcome alongside some potentially transformative national health-care programs — with the caveat that the details and execution of the deal matter. → Read More
What the Ottawa trucker convoy can teach D.C. — and the world
The Ottawa occupation — and its offspring convoys from Paris to Washington and beyond — calls for a deep reckoning with the rising forces of the far right. → Read More
Can anyone steer Canada’s Conservatives to sanity?
It seems more likely the party will veer right. That will likely be bad for the party and bad for the country. → Read More
Canada must confront the toxic ‘Freedom Convoy’ head-on
When protest movements are toxic, they must be denounced and resisted. → Read More
The pandemic has exposed a persistent myth in Canada — and the world
The effects of covid-19 present a stark image of winners and losers, those who can afford to survive and those who can’t. → Read More
Canada’s current travel bans are a discriminatory mistake
We already know that travel bans are more political theatre than sound, evidence-based practice. → Read More
Erin O’Toole must push back against hard-liners, not just to protect his party but all of Canada
Nonsense from the fringes of the party and Erin O’Toole’s incapacity to excise those elements from the Conservative side will haunt him → Read More
Trudeau was once coated in Teflon, but not anymore. Can his new Cabinet deliver?
The latest Cabinet changes represent a sort of mitigated reset for Canadian prime minister. → Read More
Canada’s election was a pointless exercise. At least politicians can get back to work now.
The election was an opportunity wasted. → Read More
Here’s what to watch for during Canada’s election debates
The debates may not matter the same for each party. → Read More