The King’s visit indicated great respect for Canada, writes William Watson. In return, did Mark Carney's government sufficiently respect the King? (Credit: BLAIR GABLE/POOL/AFP via Getty ...

Workers place pipe during construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Abbotsford, B.C., 2023. (Credit: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press files) Before I built a pipeline, as Robert Frost ...

Family and friends reminisced about the life of Hunter Brooks Watson, a 20-year-old man who died in a car crash in Delaware on June 18. On July 9, a memorial service was held at The Potomac School ...

William Watson: Carney’s throne speech ventriloquism was a little too obvious. Some passages in the speech seemed cut-and-pasted from the PM's campaign stump speech. The King deserved better. Author ...

William Watson: The throne speech should be short, sweet and backward-looking. The government shouldn't ask the King to endorse its policies, not even implicitly. He should stress the worth of our ...

In a piece in this week’s Spectator magazine lamenting “How COVID broke Britain,” the inimitably frank Rod Liddle notes how, “The U.K. is by far and away the country in Europe most smitten by the ...

One saving grace from what is otherwise a policy disaster: as Canadians lined up in mid-December to return items they’d ...

Winning pitcher Claire Shupe hit a solo homer in the bottom of the first and later drew two walks to lift second-seeded Columbia, No. 10 in the NJ.com Top 20, to a 3-0 victory over seventh-seeded ...

The first monarch to open our Parliament was the present King’s mother, Elizabeth II, who, on that occasion in October 1957, had reigned for five years, eight months. Her speech was short, as ...

Build, build, build! was the theme. “Build” was used 22 times in a speech of 2,500 words (about three times the length of this column). Strong, strong, strong, too (though it only appeared ...