STEPHEN TAYLOR

Stephen Lewis has died at 88. Three generations of the Lewis family have shaped the Canadian left. His passing, days after his son Avi won the NDP leadership, marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.

Is Mark Carney set to shutter Parliament after April's by-elections? With a backdoor majority in reach, prorogation would let him dodge accountability for a lackluster record on the economy.

Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau is retiring after years of pressure over not speaking French. A week after a fatal crash at LaGuardia, no one is talking about airline safety.

Leadership races are a black box to outsiders. But there are ways to read the signals if you know where to look.

Avi Lewis won the NDP leadership race on a decisive first ballot, taking 56 per cent of the vote.

I spend a lot of time looking at economic data. I’m constantly pulling numbers from Statistics Canada, the OECD, FRED, the Bank of Canada trying to get a clear picture of how the Canadian economy is actually performing. The problem is that getting…

I’ve long viewed polling as a useful but imperfect tool for gauging Canadian sentiment. It helps parties like the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre create messaging that resonate with everyday Canadians frustrated by Liberal overreach on…

I didn’t set out to build a PDF tool. It started with a simple thought: modern browsers can edit video, run serious WebAssembly apps, and render 3D worlds. So why is “merge two PDFs” still treated like something that needs to happen on a server…

I want to tell you about a new website I’ve made called GIS.tools. Many of you may know that I enjoy making maps. Online maps. Maps that show us about our world and the data that defines it. I know that puts me in a bit of a rare category of…