Canada’s 150 moment: at last, boring is newsworthy

While it’s become cliché to refer to Trudeau as the anti-Trump, he pretty much is—from his remarkably lifelike hair to his viral feminism.

In a recent poll by Washington’s Lincoln Park Strategies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s net favourability among Americans was +11 to U.S. President Donald Trump’s -12.Photograph courtesy of Justin Trudeau’s Twitter page

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

June 28, 2017

It’s so tempting on Canada’s 150th birthday to define ourselves by what we’re not. The national reflex to compare this country to what the late Robin Williams once characterized as the meth lab below our really nice apartment is so much more pronounced now that Donald Trump is pres...

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