John Ibbitson
@JohnIbbitson
Writer & journalist. Senior Fellow, Munk Centre. Author: Breaking Point, Empty Planet & Big Shift (with Darrell Bricker); The Duel, Stephen Harper, The Landing.
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A journalism student recently asked by email: How do you become a columnist? Do you have any advice? Here is the answer: 1/n
Canada has kicked too many cans down the road for too long and the chickens have now come home to roost. Want to understand what’s happened and what to do about it check out @JohnIbbitson amazon.ca/Breaking-Point…
Was a superb evening of Canadian history and great to meet John Ibbitson after 25 years of email correspondence.
I greatly enjoyed talking about The Duel last week on behalf of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education. The deeply knowledgeable audience gently corrected me once or twice. A rich exchange, at least for me. cihe.ca/2026/01/21/joh…
I greatly enjoyed talking about The Duel last week on behalf of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education. The deeply knowledgeable audience gently corrected me once or twice. A rich exchange, at least for me. cihe.ca/2026/01/21/joh…
In that case, thoughts and prayers from the Valley.
In ‘99, when they called in the army, there were several sequential storms. Will be interesting to see which had the greater total accumulation. Is it your sense this is worse than ‘99? Back then I had to wait a couple of weeks before they ploughed my street.
Lifelong Toronto/GTA guy. Someone with an almanac can correct me, but I can't recall seeing anything like this. There's just no place to put all this snow in a city this dense. City is going to need to truck it out or dump it into the lake. It's going to take days. Wild stuff.
A rare day when, meteorologically speaking, it’s better to be in Ottawa.
As @JohnIbbitson and I wrote in Breaking Point, the reason Canada is in this position is we haven’t dealt with the issues that make us vulnerable. We name them and suggest solutions. We won’t get out of this situation until we change amazon.ca/Breaking-Point…
The day before I met Preston Manning at an airport. We were both flying to Calgary. “I thought you’d be flying to the Capital,” he observed. “Mr Manning, Calgary now IS the Capital “ I replied. He laughed heartily.
Remembering twenty years ago, getting on the plane in Calgary with the next prime minister, bound for Ottawa. Happy, proud, anxious. Looking forward to seeing everyone in a few days and remembering Doug, Bruce, Paul.
A finely reported story by Joe Friesen on the political divides in Minnesota. Left and right, Minnesotans look for a way out of chaos theglobeandmail.com/world/us-polit…
Read this thoughtful piece. I needed to be reminded that millions of Americans are as traumatized as we are. Except they’re trapped within the nightmare. Don’t lose sight of the Americans trapped in the Donald Trump nightmare theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
A thoughtful review by @JohnIbbitson of an important book. Fixing what ails Canadian publishing: The glory days never existed, but the industry’s future needs a boost theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/…
From me: Fixing what ails Canadian publishing: The glory days never existed, but the industry’s future needs a boost theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/…
Cue the Groucho Marx quote. 🇨🇦
Agreed.
The 1947 Gray Lecture, given by Louis St. Laurent at the University of Toronto at the beginning of the Cold War where he laid out the Foundations of Canada’s Foreign Policy that would now be independent from Britain.
Except I’m wrong. He was not PM at the time. External Affairs minister.
I’d say Pearson at the UN in 1956 laying the groundwork for the resolution to the Suez crisis
I’d say Pearson at the UN in 1956 laying the groundwork for the resolution to the Suez crisis
I have been trying to think of a precedent for a speech by a Canadian pm having such impact and I am failing to come up with one.
Good for you! Well done, sir.
"Mark Bourrie named winner of 2025 Pierre Berton Award". It's an award for popular history. Comes with a medal presented by the Governor-General, a cash prize and a free trip to Ottawa.
These numbers are astonishing. China’s TFR is near 0.9. Taiwan and Hong Kong have fallen below South Korea. East Asia is vanishing. Even @darrellbricker and I in Empty Planet didn’t expect the decline to go this far, this fast.
Fertility rate of East Asia in 2025. Mongolia has the highest fertility rate at 2.35, and also is the only country in East Asia with a fertility rate above replacement. The rest is below replacement. China's two SARs are excluded from China's data and instead displayed separately
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