My father would have been 80 last week, so that got me to thinking about Justin Trudeau. Let me explain. When my dad was dying eight years ago — felled, too soon and too fast, by lung cancer — Justin got in touch with me. I was drowning in grief in those

Canadians are bristling after the son of late prime minister Pierre Trudeau suggested he might someday support separatism for Quebec. Justin Trudeau, 40-year-old Liberal Member of Parliament from Montreal, was commenting on the "values" of Conservative P

Canadians are bristling after the son of late prime minister Pierre Trudeau suggested he might someday support separatism for Quebec. Justin Trudeau, 40-year-old Liberal Member of Parliament from Montreal, was commenting on the “values” of Conservative P

By Jim Fox, Times Correspondent Jim Fox Tampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, February 19, 2012 Canadians are bristling after the son of late prime minister Pierre Trudeau suggested he might someday support separatism for Quebec. Justin Trudeau, 40-year-old

"It's not 'Champagne,' per se..." President Ronald Reagan and England's Queen Elizabeth share a toast in San Francisco, in 1983. See Also: Richard Nixon resigned just in time. Had the cantankerous president loitered in the White House too long past 1974,

Sex columnist Dan Savage suggested a couple of years ago that Canadians should turn the surname of Vic Toews (above) into a word to describe something nasty. "It's not journalists' job to keep politicians' secrets." So tweeted my colleague, Stephen Hui,

In my opinion, the book has been underestimated. It is a real gem. And, despite a recent spate of other important books on this subject, including Ibn Warraq’s Why the West Is Best, Mansur’s work is unique. Mansur gives us very valuable information about

MONTREAL My neighbourhood drugstore was dealing with an acute stamp shortage last week. It had not run out of supplies altogether but some customers did not want to buy the few stamps it still had on offer. When presented with the Diamond Jubilee issue,

In what was dubbed the “fuddle-duddle” incident, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau allegedly mouthed obscenities at opposition members in the House of Commons. When called out for his potty mouth by Tory MPs John Lundrigan and Lincoln Alexander — both of who

The nice thing about non-religious public schools is that they allow kids from different backgrounds to bump into each other. The late Pierre Trudeau, a devout Roman Catholic, used to speak about his best friend, a Jewish boy, and tell how they occasiona

Remember the good old days when the Liberals always had a leader-in-waiting. John Turner was hanging around just in case Pierre Trudeau went for a walk in a blizzard and came back with a different answer. Paul Martin waited patiently, OK not that patient

Justin Trudeau is once again causing a stir in my home and native land. During an interview with Radio Canada (the French language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on Sunday, Trudeau made some sympathetic remarks about Quebec independenc

Forty-five years ago, the late Pierre Trudeau famously said "the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." Then justice minister, he had introduced an omnibus crime bill that tackled societal taboos like abortion and divorce and uttered his p

Justin Trudeau says he’d consider helping make Quebec a country if Canada became too much like Stephen Harper. Somewhere in the great white north, a canoe just tipped. It’s true! The son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau told radio host Franco Nuov

Justin Trudeau betrays his political immaturity and narcissism in suggesting that his commitment to a united Canada is dependent on whether the Conservative government validates his personal values, say prominent political analysts. “This guy is clearly

CALGARY — Talk about delivering a body blow to Pierre Elliott Trudeau's legacy. It's safe to say, if Canada's former prime minister were alive, one thing is certain: He would not be very pleased with his son, Justin, right now. On Sunday, Justin Trudeau

“I live this country in my bones, every breath I take and I’m not going to stand here and somehow defend that I actually do love Canada because we know I love Canada,” Liberal MP Justin Trudeau said. FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS Joan Bryden The Cana

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau used Valentine’s Day to proclaim his undying love for Canada — two days after appearing to suggest there are conditions under which he might support Quebec’s secession. The Montreal Liberal MP declined to explain his earlier remar

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The son of one of the greatest defenders of Canadian unity, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has stirred up a hornets' nest by speculating about backing Quebec separatism if the country moves too far right Trudeau's 40-year-old so