Jim Warren

LATEST STORIES BY JIM WARREN

WARREN: Canada should cash in on single-event sports betting

The opponents have been chosen for Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2. However, we already know who the big loser will be on game day – it’s Canadian taxpayers.

January 19, 2020 Columnists

Caesars Windsor from Riverside Drive East Thursday October 1, 2009.

WARREN: Both Trudeau and Doug Ford are finally acting like adults

Some of our politicians have finally gotten the message that Canadians want them to act like adults. It’s time that the rest of them grow up and stop behaving like children.

January 12, 2020 Columnists

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Queens Park in Toronto, Ont. on Thursday July 5, 2018.

WARREN: The upcoming Olympics can help bring Canadians together

With the resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois in Quebec and Wexit in the West, many Canadians are feeling more divided politically than in recent memory.

January 5, 2020 Columnists

People take photographs of the Olympic Rings displayed in front of the New National Stadium, the main stadium for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, at night on December 15, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.

WARREN: Rise of Fords to power was political story of decade

As we count down the remaining days in this decade, it is remarkable to look back at the massive change and some notable events during the past 10 years.

December 29, 2019 Columnists

Doug and Rob Ford celebrate at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in this undated file photo. (Joe Warmington/Toronto Sun)

WARREN: The entitled ways of Scheer and Wilson-Raybould

“Entitled to my entitlements” is the term made famous by former Royal Mint CEO and Jean Chretien cabinet minister David Dingwall.

December 15, 2019 Columnists

Andrew Scheer campaigns in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec October 15, 2019. (REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo)

WARREN: Canada has a vaping crisis and we need action

Last week, Nova Scotia became the first province in Canada to adopt a ban on flavoured vaping products, effective April 1, 2020. They will still allow the sale of vaping products that are either tobacco flavoured or without flavour.

December 8, 2019 Columnists

WARREN: It's now Scheer who can learn from Doug Ford

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last Friday in Ottawa.

November 25, 2019 Columnists

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to the media outside of his office in the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Thursday November 21, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young)

WARREN: Everyone needs to step up to make this minority government work

For a minority government to work, all the political parties and players must contribute to its success. Everyone has responsibilities, including all the party leaders and all the premiers.

November 17, 2019 Columnists

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019.

WARREN: Some cabinet recommendations for Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his new cabinet around November 20.

November 10, 2019 Columnists

Liberal MP and Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with supporters following the federal election results in Toronto, October 21, 2019. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

WARREN: Here's why Andrew Scheer has got to go

Andrew Scheer could be forgiven by Conservatives for mistakes he made before the election. Scheer could be forgiven by Conservatives for mistakes he made during the election. But Conservatives should not forgive the mistakes Scheer has made since the end of the election and they should elect a new leader to lead them into the next election.

November 3, 2019 Columnists

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer speaks at a news conference the day after he lost the federal election to Justin Trudeau in Regina, on Oct. 22, 2019.