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The creation of an editorial cartoon
One of our regular cartoonists, Patrick LaMontagne, created this video of the creation of the editorial cartoon that appears in the Citizen today.
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Column: The Liberals seek useful bogeymen
Justin Trudeau’s recent video about the economy is a welcome change from years of attack ads that are offensive not because they’re mean but because they’re unabashedly idiotic: think the...
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Shame! Shame! In the House, the rules are aimed at the wrong targets
OTTAWA — On April 9, Ontario’s energy minister, Bob Chiarelli, told the NDP, “we’re not going to listen to your B.S.” That’s how he said it: bee-ess. But he said it in the Ontario legislature, where...
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Fearmongering about alcohol gets ridiculous
It would be irresponsible for Ontario to allow bacon in grocery stores. The American Institute for Cancer Research says, “Research on processed meat shows cancer risk starts to increase with any...
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Heartfield: Hudak's risky promises
The Ontario Progressive Conservatives, like other elements of the populist right in Canada these days, seem to have convinced themselves that voters want stupid things. To their credit, this time...
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Jenkins: A new life for Heartwood House
Behind every opening is a story. When the party and the extremely heartfelt speeches and the choir’s lovely singing were done on a recent Tuesday night, the hundreds of people involved in the story...
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Heartfield: Free-trade rhetoric and free-trade reality
You’d never know it from the government’s near-total silence on the matter, but this week, Canada has a chance to shape the world order of the 21st century. Negotiators from 11 countries are arriving...
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Heartfield: Refugee rules are bad policy, legal or not
We have reached a strange pass in Canada, when “it might be constitutional” is becoming a standard defence of government policies. We have seen a proposed prostitution law carefully crafted to thread...
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Heartfield: The MP who turned rape into a bad joke
Conservative MP Robert Goguen should not be welcome in the Conservative caucus. His stupid and cruel use of a victim of gang rape to help him score a cheap rhetorical joke was an offence not only to...
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Heartfield: What voters need to know about Duffy
So we finally have the word “bribery” in black and white. We don’t know whether suspended senator Mike Duffy is guilty of the 31 charges he faces. We do know a bit, already, about how the government...
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Heartfield: Canada, get over yourself and enjoy this moment
When I was a kid, my dad took me to a public lecture in Winnipeg about the Franklin expedition. What I remember most was the slideshow, including photographs of corpses, bound in graveclothes and...
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The best near-zingers of the debate
The three candidates who participated in the mayoral debate Tuesday night will not go down in political history for their ability to come up with one-liners. But in a largely pallid debate, there were...
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Submitting opinion to the Citizen
I am lucky to work with amazing writers every day, most of whom are not Citizen staff but who feel strongly enough about an issue that they send me an opinion submission. Here are a few tips for how to...
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Mayoral candidate Robert White cancels meeting with Citizen editorial board
The Citizen’s editorial board has invited each of the eight candidates for mayor to meet and discuss the issues in the campaign. Two of those candidates (Rebecca Pyrah and Michael St. Arnaud) did not...
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Heartfield: Playing at politics
Jim Watson is a hard man to run against. He’s a well-liked centrist with an impressive political network who lives for the job. That fact kept big-name challengers out of the mayoral race this time,...
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Heartfield: An attack on the heart of Ottawa
The political gets personal. It always is personal to someone, of course. There is always someone at risk, somewhere: someone cowering, someone grieving. We are not accustomed to that level of visceral...
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Heartfield: Meeting the people on the street with Pete Cassidy
Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in 2004. We have reposted it to honour Pete Cassidy, who died Nov. 8, 2014. * My new friend Pete, the outreach worker, doesn’t mince words. We were...
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Michael Allen: Make philanthropy a holiday tradition
For many in Ottawa, the holidays are a time of extras: extra gifts, extra treats, and other indulgences. But there are many in our community who are missing the basics. Each year, Giving Tuesday...
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Heartfield: The year in federal fallacies
With Bob Rae gone from Parliament Hill, perhaps we couldn’t expect much in the way of oration and reasoning in federal politics in 2014. There have been some shining moments, from Tom Mulcair’s sober...
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Heartfield: Down with the CanLit border police
About 15 years ago, I bought a first edition of Cocksure, the 1968 Mordecai Richler novel. It called to me from the musty shelves at the Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair, in its gaudy yellow-and-red...
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