The Globe and Mail - Hugh Winsor Columns

How the polls affected voters

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:48 EDT

Public opinion surveys may have encouraged strategic voting in the federal election - just not the way you'd think

Thinking strategically

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:33 EDT

Could this be the election that strategic voting becomes more than just talk?

Leadership matters - but only to a point

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:07 EDT

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Treading water

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:01 EDT

Individual polls may fluctuate, but looked at as a whole they show a static campaign so far

Former cabinet minister left the world a little greener

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00 EDT

A squad of volunteers will fan out around Ottawa today delivering oak saplings to friends and admirers of Carletto (Charles) Caccia, one of the most compelling and persistent politicians to have landed on Parliament Hill in many decades.

Tories take another swipe at Dion

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00 EDT

Short on numbers in the Senate and House of Commons but flushed with cash in party coffers, the Conservative Party has launched another round of television and radio attack ads aimed at Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's leadership abilities and his party's performance in the Senate.

Love among the ruins

Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:00 EDT

Hugh Winsor tells the story of how his parents met � and fell in love � on the way to the Vimy memorial

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS When the Vimy Memorial was unveiled in 1936, vets travelled to France in units. And mothers came wearing silver crosses for each lost son. But for HUGH WINSOR's parents, it was not only an occasion for remembrance -- it would change their futures

Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:00 EDT

There are expected to be 25,000 of us here this weekend to honour a young country's great losses and the generation of brave men who gave up their lives on the hills and swamps of Pas-de-Calais for the ''war to end all wars.''

LLOYD FRANCIS, ECONOMIST AND POLITICIAN 1920-2007 He was a maverick, principled member of Parliament whose unwavering ethics landed him in trouble with both his Ottawa constituents and his colleagues, yet served him well as Speaker of the House

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00 EST

Lloyd Francis was once rushed by a squad of opposition heavies out for blood. With steely determination and unflappable aplomb, he faced down what was an unprecedented physical assault on the Speaker's Chair.