Jonathan Naymark

It's tempting to look at the rise of Danielle Smith's Wildrose Party as an Alberta-only phenomenon.

The conventional wisdom is the Wildrose's imminent electoral success has been nurtured by its Alberta-first mentality; their populist "firewall Alberta" sentiment speaks to Albertans who fear the unscrupulous capitalists from central...

Rather infamously, although unofficially, Google's corporate mantra is the fairly benign: "Don't be evil."
And while lately that philosophy has come under attack as Google extends its perky red, blue, yellow, and green claws into as many parts of the digital value chain as it can, the Google...

A friend texted me the other night complaining about how someone on the subway car was plucking her eyebrows during her commute home.

"I wish I was part of the one per cent," she texted me, with what I could only assume was a sigh.

I quickly reminded...

I tend to commute a fair bit these days and subsequently, I spend an inordinate amount of my time stuck in traffic listening to the radio. I've recently reset my dial to KX 96, GTA's only country. This conversion has been driven by the fact that if I have to...

I'm concerned that what I'm about to say may turn me into a social pariah, but here goes nothing: the City of Toronto, with a $774 million structural deficit, may indeed have to close a library branch or two.

Why? Well to quote Colonel Mustard from the...

God Bless Great Britain. Not only are they our colonial masters but our limey friends continue to provide us colonists with never ending amusement.

From Prince Charles telling his mistress that he wanted to become her tampon to Hugh Grant throwing a can of beans at the paparazzi, what...

In 2008, during the run-up to the then federal election, Maclean's columnist Andrew Coyne argued that Stephen Harper's much maligned $45 million cut to Heritage Canada's budget was not representative of some sort of Canadian Culture War as was then feared.

Instead Coyne argued that Harper's budget...

I'll admit that it does feel a bit odd chastising Mayor Rob Ford for his decision to spend the Canada Day long weekend dockside in Huntsville rather then doffing a rainbow-coloured Hawaiian shirt so he can march down Yonge Street getting sprayed by water guns and pelted with...