Making Sense with Nicholls

Note: This column first appeared in the Ottawa Hill Times in September, 2014; I think the analysis still holds. For Prime Minister Stephen...

It saddened me to learn of the recent passing of a great Canadian named Merv Lavigne I knew Merv way back in the 1980s when he was a c...

Stage 1. Euphoria Oh my God! Justin Trudeau, the cutest, most adorable, most charming man in the history of our planet, is now leader...

Sometimes I come across an opinion column about politics that’s so nonsensical, I feel compelled to write a response to it as soon as human...

While strolling down a downtown street festival recently I spied a little sign, taped to a Liberal Party recruiting booth and it immediat...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she doesn't like political attack ads, which is why, I suppose, her own political attack ad is so te...

My friend, Mat Vaillancourt , asked me to post his reflections on my blog, so I did. Check it out: Five Lessons from the Quebec provinc...

Don’t ask how, but I managed to get my hands on the Table of Contents for  Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s soon to be published memoirs ten...

Our democracy is doomed! For all the gory details of its demise, check out this column by the Toronto Star ’s Chantal Hebert. She...

Whenever a New Year approaches, I like to take my eyes off the road ahead and stare intently for a long period of time at the rear view mirr...

Given that for the past ten years or so, the Conservative Party has been something of a fundraising juggernaut, I’m hesitant to criticize t...

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's recent comment about Santa Claus being a Canadian reminded me of a column I wrote a few years ago, conc...

Solon’s laws for Athens, the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation, all key milestones in the history of democracy which pale into ins...

Winner -  John F. Kennedy Even though Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago, his almost mystical status as a legendary leader continues to...

Winner -- The Conservative Party Imagine this: An entire week went by with no real mention of Mike Duffy or Pamela Wallin or Senate scanda...

Winner: The Guys Who Write Conservative Attack Ads With his idiotic comment about admiring the efficiency of China's communist dictato...

American writer E. B. White once said, “explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the proce...