Doorstep Postings: A more perfect union between organized labour and Doug Ford
This is the 18th in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Government relations folks, political pundits, campaigning lifers, and ideologues of all stripes can’t stop talking about the voting shift among private sector unions to the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. No matter what your priors are, this […]
Doorstep Postings: What the abortion debate is exposing about politics in Ontario
This is the 16th in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. When Canadians are gripped by a stateside abortion panic, and everyone rushes to declare that they are pro-choice for the millionth time (as well they should), nobody in the mass media—not even once—stops to […]
Doorstep Postings: Why the Ontario party platform platitudes have little room for Jews (or absolutely anyone or anything else)
This is the 14th in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Ontario’s New Democrats have calculated that you, the discerning Jewish voter, will be more likely to vote for them than the other parties because they’ve promised to build a Holocaust memorial on the grounds […]
Doorstep Postings: Focus-testing a ghetto concept with an outgoing MPP from the NDP
This is the 11th in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Before every election, there are one or two moments that telegraph what kind of electoral affair it’s going to be. Four years ago, we had then Ontario Liberal campaign chair David Herle calling soon-to-be-premier […]
Doorstep Postings: The politically (and sometimes literally) homeless fringe
This is the 10th in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. If you’re involved in an upcoming provincial race in the Greater Toronto Area—or the subsequent mayoral election in Toronto per se—you’d better have a Kevin Clarke strategy. The former teacher and businessman, who’s […]
Doorstep Postings: Business, never personal, in the province that pays Steve Paikin’s salary
This is the ninth in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. A week or two later, you’ve already forgotten about the Paikin family’s not-so-great experiences from mid-March 2022—and that’s the point. It all started when reporter Emma McIntosh asked why TVOntario fixture Steve Paikin […]
Doorstep Postings: The politics of Ontario are yours to discover not much room for arguments
This is the eighth in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. I’m not exactly sure when I realized that, in most of Ontario, disagreement is treated as a rude intrusion at best and a threat at worst. So deeply embedded is this taboo against conflict […]
Doorstep Postings: Ya’ara Saks leads the charge against modern-day honkspiracies
Welcome back to the series of opinion columns written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. While recent columns have focused on the Ontario provincial election, a few words in the House of Commons merited comment, similar to the previous week… Progress toward the culture war becoming a permanent fixture of the Canadian political landscape continued apace—even if threats […]
Doorstep Postings: Looking at the view from Del Duca Vista
This is the third in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Who, our most esteemed pundits wonder aloud, is Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca? Let me attempt to answer… The rally Mr. Del Duca is talking about in the above tweet from nearly a […]
Doorstep Postings: Looking into Doug Ford’s future election prospects (from a Jewish angle)
This is the first in a series of opinion columns on the 2022 Ontario provincial election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. In four months—Thursday, June 2, to be precise—Ontarians will head back to the polls to render judgment on Doug Ford’s government. Rest assured that Doorstep Postings will cover it all, with even […]
