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  Don Martin: After Trudeau's toughest talk, the Canada-China meltdown goes radioactive

  Somehow overnight Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to give up on China, endure the diplomatic deep freeze and face the inevitable economic backlash by soundly rejecting the Meng-for-Michaels proposal, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: The debate's over. MacKay's moment to lead has arrived

  Peter MacKay is the only decent shot the Conservatives have left to dethrone Justin Trudeau in the next election, writes Don Martin in his column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: MPs should boost pandemic productivity by physical distancing from House

  The nonsense on painful Commons display Wednesday proved MPs being physically distanced from Ottawa is a vote for pandemic productivity more than grounds for a salary slash, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: The 21 seconds of silence that said everything about Canada's reaction to Trump

  Watching Justin Trudeau’s daily COVID-19 briefings lately is to believe the time has come to shelve the ritual as being well beyond its best-before date. Then came Tuesday's 21 seconds of silence, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: China dials the wrong number in calling for Meng's immediate release

  'The time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s years-long footdrag is over,' writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca. 'Ban. Huawei. Now.'

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  Don Martin: Sealing off provinces from each other borders on pandemic paranoia

  Prolonged self-isolation by select provinces from the rest of the country isn’t just uneconomical and most likely unconstitutional, it’s un-Canadian, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: Conservatives down to Scheer follies and hopeless hopefuls

  Consider the unfathomable: We’re now in a country where Conservatives like premiers Doug Ford, Scott Moe and Brian Pallister look statesman-like while the federal lame-duck leader and his wannabes appear increasingly pathetic, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: A low-impact Trudeau, less-intense newscasts and other things you never thought you'd miss

  Strange twists in perspective are developing as we collectively tumble down the rabbit hole of this COVID-19 pandemic. Normal fixations have been displaced by a hungering for the sights and sounds of routine experiences that, just four months ago, might’ve been irritating, irrational or unworthy of a second thought, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.

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  Don Martin: Cheap fill-ups the sign of an ailing Alberta

  The true test of my lingering Alberta DNA is fretting at the lowest gas pump prices in a generation, writes Don Martin in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca. Those 70-cent litres are the hemorrhaging lifeblood of an Alberta tumbling into an economic abyss.

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  Don Martin: Go-slow Trudeau must win the battle over impatience to reopen

  The prime minister must continue hammering home the need for stay-at-home resolve until the virus is vanquished or we’ll be doomed to repeat our forgotten history, Don Martin writes in his weekly column for CTVNews.ca.