Christie Blatchford
National Post
Toronto, ON, Canada
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9/11 archives: Christie Blatchford at the friar's funeral on Monday, Sept. 17, 2001
The life of Father Mike, as he was known to all, 'stands as a rebuke' to the murderous passions that led to his death → Read More
9/11 archives: Christie Blatchford at the Bush speech from the rubble on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001
Again and again, the President flashed a thumbs-up, that dated gesture most often seen on this country's playing fields, to a huddled mass of firefighters → Read More
9/11 archives: Christie Blatchford inside the World Trade Center on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001
Rescuers would find a hand in the rubble and, pulses quickening and shouts swelling, burrow further into the ground to discover there was no corresponding arm,… → Read More
9/11 archives: Christie Blatchford at Ground Zero on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001
On Sept. 11, 2001, Christie Blatchford was a Toronto-based columnist for the National Post and she raced to Manhattan when the twin towers fell. Here is what… → Read More
Blatchford: Urgent Questions for Justin Trudeau after last week's blackface revelations
"Turns out, the only Canadian job he stands up and fights for is his own." → Read More
Christie Blatchford: In cutting himself slack, it’s Trudeau’s hypocrisy that is so galling
Trudeau is always quick to judge others, condemn them, and always with that rich smarminess → Read More
Christie Blatchford: What are elections for? Not for answering serious questions, it seems
Elections are for promises, some of which may never be kept, and all of which taxpayers will pay for. And for photogenic appearances at public schools → Read More
Christie Blatchford: What are elections for? Not for answering serious questions, it seems
Elections are for promises, some of which may never be kept, and all of which taxpayers will pay for. And for photogenic appearances at public schools → Read More
Bianca Andreescu, Canada's rising tennis star, attracts a crowd — of politicians
Trudeau, who plunged into the huge crowd at Celebration Square to the usual warm welcome, stood by Andreescu and made a nice speech that was properly about her → Read More
Christie Blatchford: Will Justina McCaffrey have to publicly dump friend Faith Goldy?
Andrew Scheer's position on McCaffrey's former friendship with Goldy seems entirely sensible to me, but I’m betting it won’t be enough, not in 2019 → Read More
Christie Blatchford: In a Quebec rodeo town, Trudeau proves he’s still a dangerous opponent
There were no announcements. There was just Justin, a father spending a curious day with his little girl, meeting a bunch of strangers, and loving every minute of it → Read More
Christie Blatchford: Only power, and being a man, can explain why politicians do this
Is that why politicians put up with the grip-and-grins and the circus that is a campaign? So they can stand before packed rooms and baldly dissemble? → Read More
Christie Blatchford: When Trudeau talks about SNC-Lavalin, it looks like he’s afraid of the truth
Trudeau had but one ‘media availability,’ in the morning, wherein he mostly deflected tough questions or was, shall we say, disingenuous → Read More
Christie Blatchford: Why Trudeau can dodge the two key campaign issues
In the end, the PM has the same reason for not railing at Bill 21 as he had for working in the interests of Montreal-based SNC. Quebec Quebec Quebec → Read More
Christie Blatchford: Appeal court got it wrong: Via Rail bombers received a fair trial
Two fine fellows, Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, were charged and convicted of terrorism offences in connection with a plan to derail a Via passenger train → Read More
Christie Blatchford: I have had dogs my whole life, but Obie Blatchford was my 'one'
I was made for him, and he for me, and that was that. He died on Tuesday, if not quite in my arms then at my feet → Read More
Christie Blatchford: My summer is going to the dogs and I’m just fine with that
We’ll walk as often as he wants and go ball-hunting. We’ll sit on the balcony, him baking in the sun and me reading every police procedural I can find → Read More
Christie Blatchford: Caitlan Coleman should confine her testimony to witness box
This week, Coleman has given interviews to two TV networks. But as a witness in the middle of testifying, she should be speaking to no one about the case → Read More
Blatchford: Canadian military has bigger problems beyond the curse of sexual misconduct
The Forces reacted to the Deschamps report on sexual misconduct as though her 10 recommendations, like the commandments to Moses, had come directly from God → Read More
Christie Blatchford: For the Liberals, the Norman file is yet another case closed
Odd especially that Trudeau has declined opportunities to apologize to Norman, since he has made saying sorry for the sins of others part of his own darling brand → Read More