Globe and Mail writer-at-large
John Ibbitson is the Globe and Mail’s writer-at-large based in the Ottawa bureau. Previously, he was the newspaper’s Queen’s Park columnist, Ottawa political affairs correspondent, and Washington columnist and correspondent. He is the author of three earlier works of political analysis, including The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream. He is a past finalist for the Donner Prize, a Governor General’s Award, a National Newspaper Award, a Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. He lives in Ottawa.
Although Donald Trump, Brexit and other alarms have placed a spotlight on Canadian exceptionalism, it has been clear for a while, now, that things are going right with Canada. “Sometime, not too long ago, while no one was watching, Canada became the world’s most successful country,” I wrote in 2004. The reasons for that success […]
In honour of the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen
Prize, OpenCanada is running excerpts from all five finalists.
Today, John Ibbitson’s biography of Stephen Harper.
Critics of Harper’s foreign policy would do well to remember that those policies aren’t meant to appeal to you, argues John Ibbitson.
John Ibbitson looks back on Jim Flaherty’s tenure as finance minister and his great achievement of showing the world how a nation should manage its finances.
The old debate over Quebec’s place in Confederation has very little relevance to Canada’s economic future or the people chasing that future, argues John Ibbitson.