Tom Mulcair

Legault and Trudeau chat after announcing high speed internet for Quebec regions on March 22, 2021, in Trois-Rivieres, Que. (Jacques Boissinot/CP)

A sneak attack on language rights

Tom Mulcair: Bill 96 deserves much more than nodding approval of leaders in Ottawa. Failure to defend rights comes at a cost to our unity and well-being as a country.

What to expect from the Liberals: an election, ASAP

Tom Mulcair: While the Conservative Party is still stuck in the polls, the Liberals have been setting the stage. This will be a campaign like no other.

Ford and Trudeau make an announcement at a 3M plant in Brockville, Ont., on Aug. 21, 2020 (CP/Lars Hagberg)

The hits and misses of Canada’s pandemic response

Tom Mulcair: There have been moments of brilliance in handling this crisis. But too often bad leadership and sniping have got in the way of good common sense.

Legault reacts to talks he had with Trudeau and provincial premiers on Dec. 10, 2020 at the legislature in Quebec City (CP/Jacques Boissinot)

The national unity question that most of Canada is ignoring

Tom Mulcair: The debate around language and individual rights is in full flight in Quebec, pushed by separatist and nationalist thinkers who are scoring into an open net

Trudeau walks to a news conference in Ottawa on Nov. 6, 2020 (David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An election is coming and it won’t be easy for the Liberals

Tom Mulcair: The normally efficient Liberal election machine will face big challenges in an inspiring new Green leader, and a disciplined Erin O’Toole

Trudeau sits with Legault during a meeting in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2018 (MARTIN OUELLET-DIOTTE/AFP via Getty Images)

Quebec puts the heat back on Trudeau

Tom Mulcair: With the Legault government pushing the language law debate again, the federal Liberals will be put to the test—and can’t afford to fail

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

How Canada became an environmental outlier

Tom Mulcair: Justin Trudeau and Peter MacKay, Trudeau’s likely Conservative opponent in the next federal election, represent the same generation—one that has failed on the environment

Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade questions the government during question period on Jun. 9, 2020 at the legislature in Quebec City. (Jacques Boissinot/CP)

Dominique Anglade’s under-the-radar accession

The next premier of Quebec may well be a Black woman and she deserves to be known by all Canadians

A health-care worker opens a window to a room at a long-term care home as family members of the resident look on in Montreal, on Apr. 25, 2020 (Graham Hughes/CP)

Quebec’s coronavirus outbreak in long-term care homes could have been prevented

Tom Mulcair: For over a month, the Quebec government had been aware that long-term care workers were working between different residences. There is no excuse for inaction.