menu_open Columnists
Shannon Proudfoot

Shannon Proudfoot

Macleans

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Mark Carney goes to the Oval Office and learns a new skill from Donald Trump

07.05.2025 20

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Poilievre’s uncharacteristic election night sign-off reveals a tiny glimpse of paths not taken

03.05.2025 8

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Election hopes deflate at Conservative HQ

29.04.2025 9

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The 2025 campaign is nearly over. The race we expected in 2024 never began

26.04.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

In Niagara Falls, Mark Carney stares down Hurricane Trump

19.04.2025 8

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

A debate night miracle: no one lost their cool and everyone could learn something

18.04.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Pierre Poilievre is sticking to his greatest hits. That’s the problem

12.04.2025 4

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Does Danielle Smith know we can all see and hear her?

05.04.2025 30

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Donald Trump’s tariff game show live from the Rose Garden

03.04.2025 30

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Poilievre and Carney agree on one thing: This federal election is about change

24.03.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

No hugs or sunny ways here. Carney’s government is a lean, mean trade-war machine

15.03.2025 5

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Liberals send off Trudeau, welcome Carney in a strange, wistful, forgetful event

10.03.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The view from the Sault on this tariff stupidity

08.03.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The Conservatives have had the rug pulled out from under them

01.03.2025 20

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The Liberal Party’s fast-forward leadership contest sharpens sales pitches to succeed Trudeau

26.02.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Donald Trump builds an alternate reality in the White House briefing room

01.02.2025 20

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Hollering, coercion, and endless preening. It’s the art of the Trump deal

25.01.2025 20

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Donald Trump returns to the White House, and his ways

21.01.2025 4

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

What you get when politics becomes about picking fights

18.01.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

People who want to be in charge are making their case to very softball questioners

15.01.2025 7

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The Liberal caucus steps into a Trudeau-shaped hole in the universe

11.01.2025 30

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Justin Trudeau stands in his front yard to say the inevitable

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to make an announcement on his political future outside his residence at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Jan. 6....

07.01.2025 6

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Jordan Peterson gets interesting insights out of Pierre Poilievre, in spite of himself

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks following the Fall Economic Statement being tabled in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa...

06.01.2025 9

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Justin Trudeau’s detractors are growing more courageous

Just before Christmas, Kody Blois, chair of the national Liberal rural caucus and Nova Scotia Liberal caucus, signed a letter asking the Prime...

02.01.2025 4

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Justin Trudeau and the Liberals gather for a holly jolly family fight

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau riffed on family fights during the holidays in his speech at the National Caucus holiday reception on Dec. 17 in...

18.12.2024 5

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Chrystia Freeland answered Senate questions on the GST break. It did not go well

There were lots of questions about why the GST measure offered relief to people who could afford to buy restaurant meals or toys when there are so...

07.12.2024 6

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Pierre Poilievre may soon have a Donald Trump problem, but he’s not acting like it

This week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre found a new thing to blame Justin Trudeau for: He argued energetically that Donald Trump does...

30.11.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Justin Trudeau’s holiday tax break spectacle shows how stuck Parliament is

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland trotted themselves out at a charming little grocery store to basically holler, 'Ho ho ho, guess...

23.11.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

At the campaign finish line in Springfield, the city that became an accidental main character

People vote in the U.S. presidential election in Springfield, Ohio, on Nov. 5. Megan Jelinger/Reuters On Monday morning, the day before whatever...

09.11.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The mincing coup attempt on Justin Trudeau failed, but it wouldn’t have helped much if it had succeeded

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 23. Patrick Doyle/Reuters This week in Ottawa, Justin...

26.10.2024 1

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

A deeply weird and typical day on Parliament Hill

Liberal Party MPs give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a standing ovation as he rises to speak during Question Period in the House of Commons on...

24.10.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Trudeau the Magnificent offers foreign-interference inquiry a master class in redirecting attention

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves during a break as he appears as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct....

19.10.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

What’s floating around between Justin Trudeau’s ears right now

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits for French President Emmanuel Macron to arrive on Parliament Hill, on Sept. 26 in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The...

05.10.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

A vice-presidential debate turns into a gaslighting festival and, finally, a place we can all recognize

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Vance leave that stage as Democratic vice presidential candidate...

02.10.2024 5

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

J.D. Vance isn’t a turncoat, he’s a shape-shifter - and always has been

Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance speaks during a campaign rally in Newtown, Pa., on Sept. 28. Laurence Kesterson/The Associated...

01.10.2024 2

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Hope, history and hubris: Why it’s hard to walk away in politics – even from a dumpster fire

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech during an event welcoming France's President Emmanuel Macron in Montreal, on Sept. 26. Evan Buhler/...

27.09.2024 4

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

None of this is built to withstand Donald Trump

Let’s try an experiment. Here is a verbatim quote from a speech Donald Trump delivered at a rally on Long Island this week: “Despite all of the...

21.09.2024 2

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

PSAC’s spiteful protest against back-to-office rules points to a bigger problem

PSAC workers and supporters picket in front of President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier's office in Ottawa, on April 21, 2023. Sean...

14.09.2024 5

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Kamala Harris found the skeleton key to undoing Donald Trump

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a presidential debate with former President and Republican...

11.09.2024 1

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Justin Trudeau and the angry steelworker is a perfect miniature of the moment

A CTV camera was rolling when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. recently. One of the workers he greeted...

07.09.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

The DNC uses careful political stagecraft to ask American voters a simple question

This selflessness narrative wasn’t deployed throughout the convention primarily to elevate Kamala Harris and her running-mate, Minnesota Governor...

24.08.2024 40

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

At the DNC, a spy tells politicians and political staff how to spot others like her

Far from the thumping, gleaming arena where the carefully choreographed primetime events of the Democratic National Convention take place, a...

23.08.2024 5

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

For the Democrats, this was always going to be a convention of ghosts

US President Joe Biden walks off stage after speaking on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill....

21.08.2024 7

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

This is the worst thing that could have happened to Donald Trump

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8 in Palm Beach, Fla. Polls currently show a close race between...

17.08.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

At the RNC, a ring-kissing competition soothes Donald Trump’s wounds

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, top centre, applauds during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv...

18.07.2024 3

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot

Donald Trump looks different from the floor of the Republican National Convention

There’s often a difference between what people tell you are their biggest concerns at the Republican National Convention – the economy, the border...

17.07.2024 9

The Globe and Mail

Shannon Proudfoot