From the people who brought you ‘Choose Forward’: the confusing new cabinet

Spare a moment for the average 13-year-old Canadian. Are they a child or a youth, and thus under the aegis of Bardish Chagger, or that of Ahmed Hussen?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at the cabinet unveiling at Rideau Hall on Nov. 20. Perhaps the cabinet was built by flinging darts at a wall emblazoned with portfolio names. Or perhaps it was meant as a joke: any cabinet with a minister responsible for 'Middle Class Prosperity' is just opening itself up to mockery, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 27, 2019

OTTAWA—In the 1960s, a best-selling book described the wild ride of the advertising industry on Madison Avenue. Said to have inspired the hit TV show Mad Men, its title came from an anecdote the author, Jerry Della Femina tells, about a late-night brainstorming session for a slogan for th...

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