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MacDougall: With attacks on Poilievre fizzling, Liberals must fix Canada's problems

These Liberals and this prime minister are by now an old dog, incapable of new tricks.

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Ottawa Citizen

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MacDougall: Trudeau Liberals can't put out the economic fires they created

Without measures to boost growth and productivity, the great government reshuffling of tax revenue is but a giant shell game. Younger voters won't be...

18.04.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Spend, then spend some more, won't save Trudeau

At some point in a political leader's mandate, bribing people with their own money to do the stuff you should have been doing mandates ago doesn't...

04.04.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

Opinion: Online Harms Act focuses on the wrong end of the problem

“If at first you don’t succeed,” goes the lyric, “try, try again.” Are the Liberals about to hum this fabled tune on their new Online Harms...

29.03.2024 10

Calgary Herald

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MacDougall: Online Harms Act focuses on the wrong end of the problem

The real harms are: advertising, algorithms, anonymity, and abuse. To lessen the last of these four As, you need to hobble the first three.

26.03.2024 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Stop targeting Jews in Canada for Israel's actions in Gaza

If you're upset over Netanyahu's policies, then protest to the embassy or let your MP know. Targeting businesses and schools here is unacceptable.

21.03.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Conservatives are cruising, but what would Poilievre really do as PM?

After this week's byelection victory, the Conservative leader looks to be headed for a huge majority in the next federal election. How will he spend...

07.03.2024 7

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: News media now write the 'second draft of history.' And that's a problem

In a democracy, the challenge is how to make social media function more like a professional newsroom, not how to make a professional newsroom more...

23.02.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Political hysteria won't resolve the gender debate

Couldn't we, for once, presume good intent on all sides? Even better, could we not play to the excitable crowds on social media, but focus on our...

08.02.2024 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Trudeau won't get far by relying on the Trump bogeyman

It wasn't Donald Trump who fumbled the housing file. Trump didn’t let Canadian education abuse the student visa program. It wasn't Trump who evoked...

25.01.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Basic survival is the challenge facing Canada’s political leaders

11.01.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Think of social media as an autoimmune disease

Your immune system roots through your body for harmful invaders, then rallies your defences. Journalism does this same work for our societies.

28.12.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: The 'information war' has revolutionized war itself. And the West is losing

Western leaders must ponder whether the information economy, as currently constructed, lets them conduct any sort of foreign policy at all.

14.12.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: How Trudeau’s Liberals — and maybe some journalists — are burying journalism

Government fanfare aside, Google’s $100-million investment in Canadian journalism won't change a thing. It is simply the price for applying a veneer...

01.12.2023 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Israel-Hamas war — Trudeau needs to see the world as it actually is, not as he wishes it were

This isn’t the time to pull out the electoral calculator and model the pro-Palestinian versus Jewish vote. This isn’t the time to "both sides" it.

17.11.2023 8

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Trudeau needs to preserve his legacy rather than carve it up

The choice now before the prime minister isn’t win or lose. It’s lose with dignity, or lose with desperation.

03.11.2023 20

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Only a healthy news media can cut through the fog of war

Must we insist on feeding the insatiable maw of real-time social media platforms instead of letting trained professionals ferret out the facts?

19.10.2023 8

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Trudeau is acting on the wrong problem with media legislation

Two recent online bills miss the point entirely. The government needs to change its focus, not ask the antiquated CRTC to play the role of referee...

05.10.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDOUGALL: Trudeau is asking for trust when there’s little left

Thanks to the prime minister's own past behaviour, the burden of proof on the India debacle is now extremely high. As far as channel-changing gambits...

22.09.2023 7

Winnipeg Sun

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Trudeau is asking for trust when there’s little left

Thanks to the prime minister's own past behaviour, the burden of proof on the India debacle is now extremely high.

22.09.2023 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Macdougall

MacDougall: Justin Trudeau’s only real strategy is to wait for something to happen

One major event just might rescue Trudeau from the doldrums of voter opinion: the possible re-election of Donald Trump.

07.09.2023 5

Ottawa Citizen

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