Making Sense with Nicholls

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Protecting Public Safety One Smashed Door at a Time

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In this increasingly dangerous world, it’s nice to know Canadians can rest secure in the knowledge that RCMP officers are out there,  patro...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Ontario PCs Need to Keep Message Simple

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Given that Ontario is in a tense minority government situation these days, we can expect constant, low level partisan warfare to take plac...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Scandals are Non-Partisan

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If the Duffy/Wright/Senate controversy has proven one thing, it’s that scandals are a non-partisan affair. This news might shock many Co...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

In Defence of (internal) Polls

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Canada ’s political pollsters got it spectacularly wrong in British Columbia and in Alberta . And so now many pundits and media type...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Are Intellectuals at War with Reality?

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Canadian left-wing intellectuals have a habit of saying the darndest things. And most of the darndest things they say are associated w...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Is the Media a Bully?

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There's a bible verse that asks, "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank i...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Coyne, Negative ads and Freedom

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National Post columnist Andrew Coyne has consistently (and rightly) castigated the Conservative government for discarding its conservativ...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Is Trudeau Anti-Fragile?

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There’s an odd thing about political columnists. Although they are usually bright people with highly informed views about politics, they g...
Friday, April 12, 2013

NDP Resolutions to Keep an Eye on

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This weekend delegates from the New Democratic Party will be converging in Montreal to debate and adopt new policies. As a public service,...
Monday, April 08, 2013

Margaret Thatcher RIP

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With the sad passing of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, I thought I'd reproduce a column I wrote four years ago. ...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

My Letter to the Queen

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Green Party leader Elizabeth May sent a letter to Queen Elizabeth, asking her to investigate robo-calls. So I figured, if she can write the ...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Reviewing the PC Ad

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The Ontario PC party just posted this ad on the Internet -- and that's where I hope it remains, because airing this spot on TV would be ...
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Monday, March 04, 2013

A Great Man's Legacy

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Note: On this day in 1987, Colin M. Brown, the founder of the National Citizens Coalition passed away. To mark the occasion, I am re-posting...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Walking Dead-Advocacy Group

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I didn’t mean to get into an ideological Twitter battle with the National Citizens Coalition, but I did. It all started when I wrot...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

Medal Envy

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Not to exaggerate or anything, but I am the victim of an appalling, terrible injustice, the likes of which the world has never seen. G...
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Gerry Nicholls
Gerry Nicholls is a communications consultant and writer who has been called a “political warrior” a “brilliant strategist” and one of the “canniest political observers in Canada.” He has worked as a consultant in both the United States and Canada and was formerly a senior officer in the National Citizens Coalition. A regular columnist with the Ottawa Hill Times, his work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and in the Sun Media chain; and he has appeared on countless TV and radio public affairs programs. He is the author of the book, Loyal to the Core, Harper, Me and the NCC.
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