Was in Ottawa, ran into a fellow who had my new book. Nice guy.

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CALGARY - The first thing you notice are the Canadian flags. On poles, tacked to garage doors, on makeshift displays, the maple leaf is much more evident than before. If you drive around Calgary’s Southeast, where four rock-ribbed Conservative federal ridings are found, there many more Canadian flags than Alberta flags. It is noticeable. It is also consequential. Albertans generally, and Calgarians specifically, have always had a fraught relationship with Canada. Alberta’s h

...behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre? Can you guess? Spotted at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Calgary.

Back home (really late) from Calgary - but The Schmooze podcast is now out! On all the main platforms. Check it out.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Where does hate come from? Lots of things. Envy, resentment, ideology, economic distress, ignorance, indifference. I’ve been writing about hate for 40 years, and I can tell you that indifference ranks pretty high up on the list, lately. Mark Carney is a practitioner of indifference. He came to a Toronto synagogue a few days ago - ostensibly to deliver a Prime Ministerial denunciation of the variant of hate that is antisemitism - and he couldn’t once articul

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With Don and Jared and me!