Lawrence Martin is an Ottawa public-affairs columnist and author.
A longtime Globe and Mail journalist, he has served in the Montreal, Queen’s Park, Ottawa, Washington and Moscow bureaus. He opened the newspaper’s first Moscow bureau in 1985 and won recognition as one of the first Western journalists to attest to the validity of the Gorbachev reform movement.
He is the author of 10 books. His most recent, the best-seller Harperland, was nominated for several awards and voted in a poll as one of the best Canadian political books of the past 25 years.
He is the author of a two-volume study of Jean Chrétien and two books on Canada-U.S. relations, including The Presidents and The Prime Ministers. Other works include Breaking With History, a book on the Gorbachev revolution, and The Red Machine, a history of hockey in Russia, as well as a biography of hockey legend Mario Lemieux.
He has degrees from McMaster University and Harvard. Among his honours is being named a recipient of McMaster’s Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award.
His Globe and Mail column has been appearing weekly or twice weekly since 2003.
Time for Harper to bring out the broom?
Blunder-prone and looking anything but fresh, the Conservative cabinet is in need of a shakeup
As an industrial nation, Canada is divided against itself
Resource extraction benefits some provinces while leaving others behind, returning us to regional rancour
How long will Stephen Harper stay?
Don’t underestimate the degree of his defiance
Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
With his granite determination, the 26th U.S. president was America’s tribune of manifest destiny
The NDP must show Canadians a new way
Thomas Mulcair’s repositioned Official Opposition has a chance of scoring with a judicious and innovative handling of the integrity issue
Celebrate the Charter, but don't forget the scars of patriation
The fallout from 1982 is all the more distressing when we consider that the so-called night of the long knives was largely fiction
The eternal leavening of the Canadian left
Thomas Mulcair isn’t offering anything that should embitter large numbers of New Democrats
Justin Trudeau: In the name of the father
A charity boxing match, and a star is reborn
No room for sacred cows in this budget
The transformative changes in Harper's new agenda will stand in contrast to early Conservative caution
All parties have a stake in the NDP leadership race
The Liberals, for example, would dearly love to see Thomas Mulcair beaten
