Andrew Coyne

Andrew Coyne on politics, economics, and everything in between.

What’s really up (and down) with incomes

Soaring inequality would be terribly concerning if there were any factual basis for it

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, October 31, 2011
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Jobs’s story reminds us not only of the heroism of the entrepreneur, but of the nobility of craft

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, October 6, 2011
How we really beat the deficit: or, revisionism revisited

Andrew Coyne on why spending cuts played a bigger role than economic growth

by Andrew Coyne - Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cut it in half and no one would notice

As we wait for Stephen Harper to appoint a new cabinet, it is worth…

by Erica Alini - Monday, May 16, 2011
"That's kind of the sentiment we're getting at"

People in politics have no idea how loathsome they sound

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, May 6, 2011
Ottawa's new power couple

Harper’s is the first majority to rely equally on Ontario and the West

by Andrew Coyne - Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Fascist takeover! Or else a Commalition! Consensus at last!

Polls show the Fascists continuing their march on the capital while a Commie insurgency is brewing

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, April 25, 2011
Commies leading Traitors! A special investigation!

Updated seat projections, reflecting Commies’ recent surge. Fascists still short of “absolute power,” Visitors…

by Andrew Coyne - Friday, April 22, 2011
Is Harper prepared to do a King-Byng?

Harper’s dogmatic opposition to coalitions raises a few questions

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Oh look, new Coyne v Wells

On Layton’s surge, and whether Harper’s fiscal plan is really decentralizing as all that….

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Maclean's/CPAC debate

Anyone who missed the outstanding debate last night (or wants to see it again!)…

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Carrément, une première (presque)

Fun fact: If the NDP take a plurality of the vote in Quebec this…

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Your seat projections have arrived (UPDATED)

At this point, everybody is losing

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, April 18, 2011
Who won? Who cares?

COYNE: We’re not picking the best debater. We’re picking a prime minister.

by Andrew Coyne - Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Who will save us now (part III)?

Barring a miracle, we are about to enter the third cycle of Parti Québécois government in Quebec

by Andrew Coyne - Monday, April 4, 2011
That seventies platform

The Liberal platform wants to take the country back 40 years

by Andrew Coyne - Sunday, April 3, 2011
The debates mess (3) – The whole thing

Andrew Coyne on the urgent necessity of reforming leaders debates

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, March 31, 2011
The debates mess (2) – Harper v Ignatieff?

Some propose going further than just excluding the Greens. Why, they say, are even…

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, March 31, 2011
The debates mess (1) – The Greens

Let’s suppose Ford, GM and Chrysler sat down with all the television networks, and…

by Andrew Coyne - Thursday, March 31, 2011
Gilles Duceppe, federalist hardliner

“Mr. Duceppe clarified that he, too, would never be part of a formal coalition…

by Andrew Coyne - Sunday, March 27, 2011