Doorstep Postings: The problem with the Green Party, after Annamie Paul
This is the 17th in a series of opinion columns on the 2021 Canadian federal election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN—you can find more in our section called Perspectives. Here’s how you know the anger directed against Annamie Paul was tinged, and in some cases more than tinged, with antisemitism and anti-Black racism: if […]
Doorstep Postings: We get the government we deserve
Our columnist’s initial post-election reflections.
Doorstep Postings: What comes after they get those votes out
This is the 15th in a series of opinion columns on the 2021 Canadian federal election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN—you can find more in our section called Perspectives. Mailboxes up and down Brighton Avenue were stuffed with glossy blue cardstock reminders to leave the house and cast a ballot—the result of my handiwork […]
Doorstep Postings: After two NDP candidate resignations we’re down to the short strokes
This is the 14th in a series of opinion columns on the 2021 Canadian federal election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN—you can find more in our section called Perspectives. In a few short days, this mostly pointless election will be over, and the Jewish community won’t have to worry about whether candidates who publicly […]
Doorstep Postings: Strutting and fretting for an hour upon the debate stage
This is the 13th in a series of opinion columns on the 2021 Canadian federal election, written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN—you can find more in our section called Perspectives. Trust me: You really don’t want to be present for a Canadian election debate that has gone wildly off the rails. I remember a brutal […]
Doorstep Postings: When the day of judgment is nearly here
NDP candidate Sidney Coles was sorry for false claims about Israel stealing vaccines—and then she logged off.
Doorstep Postings: Flyers by night on the mean streets of Thornhill
So, how was your Rosh Hashanah? I spent the hours leading up to mine doing my least favourite political activity—trying to find out who’s behind some anonymous flyers slamming a particular candidate. (This is the first time I’ve done it in a journalistic capacity, though!) Anonymous attack ads are one of the most loathsome aspects of […]
Doorstep Postings: Maxime Bernier’s campaign is dying historic on Fury Road
Maxime Bernier didn’t appear to know who I was as I slipped through the crowd that had formed around him at one of the big events organized by the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee. He didn’t look or carry himself like “Mad Max,” the fearless one-man army his 2017 Conservative Party leadership team had been […]
