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Mark Wegierski

Mark Wegierski is a Toronto-based writer and historical researcher, published in The Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, among others.

The longstanding Liberal hegemony in Canada, and the challenges to it

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | October 17, 2022

‘Red Toryism’: The best and worst of Canadian conservative politics

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | August 31, 2022

Do Conservatives want to finally change things, or continue being perennial losers? A response to Marjory LeBreton and Tasha Kheiriddin

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | July 21, 2022

Liberal-NDP alliance could have a profound impact on Conservative leadership race

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | May 19, 2022

Advice to leadership contenders on key policy planks to win Canadian Conservatives

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | March 3, 2022

Conservative inter-party conflict makes holding power a hard path

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | May 27, 2021

Conservative Green philosophy is real

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | April 14, 2021

Cancelling of Sloan shows Conservatives as beholden to liberal narratives

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | March 4, 2021

Problems of current-day conservative thought

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | January 18, 2021

The Scheer truth does not exist

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | July 6, 2020

Articulation needed for ‘small-c conservatism’ in Canada

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | March 9, 2020

Scheer’s mea culpa not forthcoming, and that’s the CPC leadership race’s problem

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | February 24, 2020

Is the leadership race of one’s party more important than the general election?

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | February 3, 2020

Conventions, conventions, everywhere, and yet, little democracy to be found

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | January 29, 2020

Scheer should resign now before he destroys the Conservative Party

opinion | BY MARK WEGIERSKI | January 3, 2020