Jim Creskey

Few Canadians understood how this country’s refugee system worked better than Peter Showler

• Peter Showler, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 79, was the real deal. A former Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 15, 2023

Few Canadians understood how this country’s refugee system worked better than Peter Showler

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 15, 2023

• Peter Showler, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 79, was the real deal. A former Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Few Canadians understood how this country’s refugee system worked better than Peter Showler

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 15, 2023

• Peter Showler, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 79, was the real deal. A former Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

What shape does hope take in a world we can see is rushing to destroy itself?

• Hope is rooted in our spirit. It is not a tangible thing we can put on the table to bargain over. Hope is a

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 16, 2023

What shape does hope take in a world we can see is rushing to destroy itself?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 16, 2023

• Hope is rooted in our spirit. It is not a tangible thing we can put on the table to bargain over. Hope is a

What shape does hope take in a world we can see is rushing to destroy itself?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 16, 2023

• Hope is rooted in our spirit. It is not a tangible thing we can put on the table to bargain over. Hope is a

The other 9/11

• Canada had much to learn from the tragedy that took place in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973. Entire government policies and wide public acceptance

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | September 11, 2023

The other 9/11

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | September 11, 2023

• Canada had much to learn from the tragedy that took place in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973. Entire government policies and wide public acceptance

The other 9/11

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | September 11, 2023

• Canada had much to learn from the tragedy that took place in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973. Entire government policies and wide public acceptance

The false protection of wishful thinking

• While the film Oppenheimer might remind us we are courting global suicide, the National Film Board's The Strangest Dream is a profound warning.

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 9, 2023

The false protection of wishful thinking

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 9, 2023

• While the film Oppenheimer might remind us we are courting global suicide, the National Film Board's The Strangest Dream is a profound warning.

The false protection of wishful thinking

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 9, 2023

• While the film Oppenheimer might remind us we are courting global suicide, the National Film Board's The Strangest Dream is a profound warning.

A history lesson we have yet to learn: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war in 2022

• OTTAWA—Four men are seated in a room, three of them share a couch, one sits in a rocking chair. They are all attempting to

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 20, 2022

A history lesson we have yet to learn: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war in 2022

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 20, 2022

• OTTAWA—Four men are seated in a room, three of them share a couch, one sits in a rocking chair. They are all attempting to

A history lesson we have yet to learn: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war in 2022

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 20, 2022

• OTTAWA—Four men are seated in a room, three of them share a couch, one sits in a rocking chair. They are all attempting to

Lessons from Cobalt for Ontario’s Ring of Fire

• The Westminster Parliament boasts more than a few noteworthy prime ministers who were writers worth reading. Prime ministers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli stand

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2022

Lessons from Cobalt for Ontario’s Ring of Fire

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2022

• The Westminster Parliament boasts more than a few noteworthy prime ministers who were writers worth reading. Prime ministers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli stand

Lessons from Cobalt for Ontario’s Ring of Fire

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2022

• The Westminster Parliament boasts more than a few noteworthy prime ministers who were writers worth reading. Prime ministers Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli stand

A Grade 3 teacher and the children of Chelsea spark promising movement to bring down Bill 21

• CHELSEA, QUE.— Standing in an ice-covered parking lot outside the office of Gatineau’s CAQ MNA, Robert Bussière, and listening to several protest speeches in French

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 22, 2021

A Grade 3 teacher and the children of Chelsea spark promising movement to bring down Bill 21

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 22, 2021

• CHELSEA, QUE.— Standing in an ice-covered parking lot outside the office of Gatineau’s CAQ MNA, Robert Bussière, and listening to several protest speeches in French

A Grade 3 teacher and the children of Chelsea spark promising movement to bring down Bill 21

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 22, 2021

• CHELSEA, QUE.— Standing in an ice-covered parking lot outside the office of Gatineau’s CAQ MNA, Robert Bussière, and listening to several protest speeches in French

Two kinds of security: the PM’s and the world’s

• OTTAWA—A cold wind blows across Parliament Hill as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks on the north side of Wellington Street from the West Block

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 2, 2021

Two kinds of security: the PM’s and the world’s

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 2, 2021

• OTTAWA—A cold wind blows across Parliament Hill as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks on the north side of Wellington Street from the West Block

Two kinds of security: the PM’s and the world’s

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 2, 2021

• OTTAWA—A cold wind blows across Parliament Hill as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks on the north side of Wellington Street from the West Block

Keeping the bailiff from repossessing your car: the case for a basic income

• A basic income for all Canadians, an unconditional, guaranteed income floor below which no one’s income can fall, is an idea that has been

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 9, 2021

Keeping the bailiff from repossessing your car: the case for a basic income

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 9, 2021

• A basic income for all Canadians, an unconditional, guaranteed income floor below which no one’s income can fall, is an idea that has been

Keeping the bailiff from repossessing your car: the case for a basic income

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | June 9, 2021

• A basic income for all Canadians, an unconditional, guaranteed income floor below which no one’s income can fall, is an idea that has been

In new book, Roche offers recovery for a wounded world in the new Biden era

• The Biden era has begun. Are we ready to make the most of it? Just when it’s needed, Recover: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, comes

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 19, 2020

In new book, Roche offers recovery for a wounded world in the new Biden era

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 19, 2020

• The Biden era has begun. Are we ready to make the most of it? Just when it’s needed, Recover: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, comes

In new book, Roche offers recovery for a wounded world in the new Biden era

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 19, 2020

• The Biden era has begun. Are we ready to make the most of it? Just when it’s needed, Recover: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, comes

There couldn’t be a better time than now to cancel the Safe Third Country Agreement

• It’s not often that a major court decision about a highly politicized topic turns out to be a gift to both the Liberals and

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020

There couldn’t be a better time than now to cancel the Safe Third Country Agreement

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020

• It’s not often that a major court decision about a highly politicized topic turns out to be a gift to both the Liberals and

There couldn’t be a better time than now to cancel the Safe Third Country Agreement

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020

• It’s not often that a major court decision about a highly politicized topic turns out to be a gift to both the Liberals and

The political test: addressing sly, sophisticated racism

• Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson complained that he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t join the thousands of people who marched

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 10, 2020

The political test: addressing sly, sophisticated racism

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 10, 2020

• Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson complained that he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t join the thousands of people who marched

The political test: addressing sly, sophisticated racism

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 10, 2020

• Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson complained that he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t join the thousands of people who marched

Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence a tragic, heartbreaking, personal story

• OTTAWA—A journalist who writes personally enters into dangerous territory. I’m not talking about the kind of personal writing that food and fashion and sometimes

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 16, 2019

Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence a tragic, heartbreaking, personal story

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 16, 2019

• OTTAWA—A journalist who writes personally enters into dangerous territory. I’m not talking about the kind of personal writing that food and fashion and sometimes

Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence a tragic, heartbreaking, personal story

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | December 16, 2019

• OTTAWA—A journalist who writes personally enters into dangerous territory. I’m not talking about the kind of personal writing that food and fashion and sometimes

Murray Thomson: from RCAF pilot to pacifist

• OTTAWA—Several days ago, I spoke on the phone with Murray Thomson, who told me that the retirement home in Old Ottawa South where he

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 8, 2019

Murray Thomson: from RCAF pilot to pacifist

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 8, 2019

• OTTAWA—Several days ago, I spoke on the phone with Murray Thomson, who told me that the retirement home in Old Ottawa South where he

Murray Thomson: from RCAF pilot to pacifist

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 8, 2019

• OTTAWA—Several days ago, I spoke on the phone with Murray Thomson, who told me that the retirement home in Old Ottawa South where he

Important questions for a Canada that’s ‘better than we know and worse than we think’

• We have to admit that we are not very good at asking questions in this town. When we ask a question “with respect” we

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 4, 2019

Important questions for a Canada that’s ‘better than we know and worse than we think’

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 4, 2019

• We have to admit that we are not very good at asking questions in this town. When we ask a question “with respect” we

Important questions for a Canada that’s ‘better than we know and worse than we think’

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 4, 2019

• We have to admit that we are not very good at asking questions in this town. When we ask a question “with respect” we

A saint for dark times

• It seems like it was in a different universe, but it was only three years ago that Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress.

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 31, 2018

A saint for dark times

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 31, 2018

• It seems like it was in a different universe, but it was only three years ago that Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress.

A saint for dark times

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 31, 2018

• It seems like it was in a different universe, but it was only three years ago that Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress.

When a heart-wrenching photo made it better for children

• OTTAWA—It’s about the children. Nothing brought this home more than the 2015 photo of the body of a three-year-old Syrian refugee boy, Alan Kurdi,

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 24, 2018

When a heart-wrenching photo made it better for children

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 24, 2018

• OTTAWA—It’s about the children. Nothing brought this home more than the 2015 photo of the body of a three-year-old Syrian refugee boy, Alan Kurdi,

When a heart-wrenching photo made it better for children

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 24, 2018

• OTTAWA—It’s about the children. Nothing brought this home more than the 2015 photo of the body of a three-year-old Syrian refugee boy, Alan Kurdi,

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives: Hill Life & People, 30th Year in Print

• It was July 4, 1990, and a Fourth of July party that a young Jim Watson didn’t want to miss. Mr. Watson, who was

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | October 15, 2018

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives: Hill Life & People, 30th Year in Print

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | October 15, 2018

• It was July 4, 1990, and a Fourth of July party that a young Jim Watson didn’t want to miss. Mr. Watson, who was

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives: Hill Life & People, 30th Year in Print

FeatureBY JIM CRESKEY | October 15, 2018

• It was July 4, 1990, and a Fourth of July party that a young Jim Watson didn’t want to miss. Mr. Watson, who was

The politics of assured destruction

• Joe Cirincione understands the problem of nuclear weapons better than most. He has worked on nuclear weapons policy in Washington, D.C., for more than 35

News | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 10, 2018

The politics of assured destruction

News | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 10, 2018

• Joe Cirincione understands the problem of nuclear weapons better than most. He has worked on nuclear weapons policy in Washington, D.C., for more than 35

The politics of assured destruction

News | BY JIM CRESKEY | October 10, 2018

• Joe Cirincione understands the problem of nuclear weapons better than most. He has worked on nuclear weapons policy in Washington, D.C., for more than 35

Is Trudeau about to make Peterson’s mistake?

• It’s the right time to call an early election, despite the fact that the government is barely three years into its mandate, said the

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 18, 2018

Is Trudeau about to make Peterson’s mistake?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 18, 2018

• It’s the right time to call an early election, despite the fact that the government is barely three years into its mandate, said the

Is Trudeau about to make Peterson’s mistake?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | August 18, 2018

• It’s the right time to call an early election, despite the fact that the government is barely three years into its mandate, said the

Nothing safe about the U.S. for Central American refugees

• The recent visit of Canadian human rights worker Karen Spring to Ottawa as she attempted to convince Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland to go to bat

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2018

Nothing safe about the U.S. for Central American refugees

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2018

• The recent visit of Canadian human rights worker Karen Spring to Ottawa as she attempted to convince Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland to go to bat

Nothing safe about the U.S. for Central American refugees

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 13, 2018

• The recent visit of Canadian human rights worker Karen Spring to Ottawa as she attempted to convince Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland to go to bat

Time for a church apology to be done properly

• OTTAWA—“So few people want to identify as Christians because the rest of the world thinks we’re nuts,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May told an

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 25, 2018

Time for a church apology to be done properly

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 25, 2018

• OTTAWA—“So few people want to identify as Christians because the rest of the world thinks we’re nuts,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May told an

Time for a church apology to be done properly

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 25, 2018

• OTTAWA—“So few people want to identify as Christians because the rest of the world thinks we’re nuts,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May told an

Turning politics and religion right side up

• OTTAWA—Since the late 1980s, the emergence of the religious right in the United States, as a cultural crutch for the Republican Party, has been

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 16, 2018

Turning politics and religion right side up

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 16, 2018

• OTTAWA—Since the late 1980s, the emergence of the religious right in the United States, as a cultural crutch for the Republican Party, has been

Turning politics and religion right side up

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 16, 2018

• OTTAWA—Since the late 1980s, the emergence of the religious right in the United States, as a cultural crutch for the Republican Party, has been

False Hawaii nuclear-attack alert came with a reminder

• OTTAWA—The erroneous warning about an impending nuclear missile attack on Hawaii Jan. 13 came with the reminder that any nuclear early-warning system is at

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | January 17, 2018

False Hawaii nuclear-attack alert came with a reminder

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | January 17, 2018

• OTTAWA—The erroneous warning about an impending nuclear missile attack on Hawaii Jan. 13 came with the reminder that any nuclear early-warning system is at

False Hawaii nuclear-attack alert came with a reminder

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | January 17, 2018

• OTTAWA—The erroneous warning about an impending nuclear missile attack on Hawaii Jan. 13 came with the reminder that any nuclear early-warning system is at

How Trump can make American dairy farmers ‘great again’

• Dairy farmers across the world are in crisis, in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Europe—almost everywhere except in Canada.

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 1, 2017

How Trump can make American dairy farmers ‘great again’

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 1, 2017

• Dairy farmers across the world are in crisis, in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Europe—almost everywhere except in Canada.

How Trump can make American dairy farmers ‘great again’

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | May 1, 2017

• Dairy farmers across the world are in crisis, in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Europe—almost everywhere except in Canada.

Wrestling with war and peace at the Vimy Ridge memorial

• Last week, I sat on a Via Rail train heading to Toronto, reading a copy of the timely and well-considered book, The Vimy Trap:

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 31, 2017

Wrestling with war and peace at the Vimy Ridge memorial

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 31, 2017

• Last week, I sat on a Via Rail train heading to Toronto, reading a copy of the timely and well-considered book, The Vimy Trap:

Wrestling with war and peace at the Vimy Ridge memorial

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 31, 2017

• Last week, I sat on a Via Rail train heading to Toronto, reading a copy of the timely and well-considered book, The Vimy Trap:

Saying goodbye to Khalid Mohamed, our relentlessly hardworking circulation master

• Khalid Mohamed came to Canada in 1989, the same year that The Hill Times began publishing. He had two advanced degrees: a master’s in

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 8, 2017

Saying goodbye to Khalid Mohamed, our relentlessly hardworking circulation master

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 8, 2017

• Khalid Mohamed came to Canada in 1989, the same year that The Hill Times began publishing. He had two advanced degrees: a master’s in

Saying goodbye to Khalid Mohamed, our relentlessly hardworking circulation master

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | March 8, 2017

• Khalid Mohamed came to Canada in 1989, the same year that The Hill Times began publishing. He had two advanced degrees: a master’s in

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It’s time to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, and luckily it’s not hard to do

• OTTAWA—Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States has something in common with a virus. It has remained dormant, apparently harmless, for years

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | February 24, 2017

It’s time to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, and luckily it’s not hard to do

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | February 24, 2017

• OTTAWA—Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States has something in common with a virus. It has remained dormant, apparently harmless, for years

It’s time to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, and luckily it’s not hard to do

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | February 24, 2017

• OTTAWA—Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States has something in common with a virus. It has remained dormant, apparently harmless, for years

City on a hill, tarnished beyond recognition

• President-elect Donald Trump awaits the traditional high-noon inauguration date on January 20, a divisive master of scapegoating, while a Republican Congress, former fortress of obstruction, is

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 9, 2016

City on a hill, tarnished beyond recognition

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 9, 2016

• President-elect Donald Trump awaits the traditional high-noon inauguration date on January 20, a divisive master of scapegoating, while a Republican Congress, former fortress of obstruction, is

City on a hill, tarnished beyond recognition

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | November 9, 2016

• President-elect Donald Trump awaits the traditional high-noon inauguration date on January 20, a divisive master of scapegoating, while a Republican Congress, former fortress of obstruction, is

A Tolkienesque look at the U.S. election

• OTTAWA—Watching the Republican National Convention from Canada was like gazing at the ominous distant mountains of Mordor from a peaceful round doorway in Hobbiton.

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 27, 2016

A Tolkienesque look at the U.S. election

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 27, 2016

• OTTAWA—Watching the Republican National Convention from Canada was like gazing at the ominous distant mountains of Mordor from a peaceful round doorway in Hobbiton.

A Tolkienesque look at the U.S. election

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 27, 2016

• OTTAWA—Watching the Republican National Convention from Canada was like gazing at the ominous distant mountains of Mordor from a peaceful round doorway in Hobbiton.

Does Obama know he’s a prisoner of ‘the logic of fear’?

• OTTAWA—Sister Virginia walked up and down the aisles in the packed classroom. Swinging from the waist of her black woollen habit was a large

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 1, 2016

Does Obama know he’s a prisoner of ‘the logic of fear’?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 1, 2016

• OTTAWA—Sister Virginia walked up and down the aisles in the packed classroom. Swinging from the waist of her black woollen habit was a large

Does Obama know he’s a prisoner of ‘the logic of fear’?

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | June 1, 2016

• OTTAWA—Sister Virginia walked up and down the aisles in the packed classroom. Swinging from the waist of her black woollen habit was a large

A letter from the publishers

• Here’s some background about the start of a second weekly print edition of The Hill Times. When the word got out that this would

News | BY ANNE MARIE CRESKEY, JIM CRESKEY, ROSS DICKSON | April 13, 2016

A letter from the publishers

News | BY ANNE MARIE CRESKEY, JIM CRESKEY, ROSS DICKSON | April 13, 2016

• Here’s some background about the start of a second weekly print edition of The Hill Times. When the word got out that this would

A letter from the publishers

News | BY ANNE MARIE CRESKEY, JIM CRESKEY, ROSS DICKSON | April 13, 2016

• Here’s some background about the start of a second weekly print edition of The Hill Times. When the word got out that this would

This column is not about Donald Trump

• This column is not about Donald Trump. It about my father, who, like Trump, was also a New York salesman. Of course there were

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 6, 2016

This column is not about Donald Trump

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 6, 2016

• This column is not about Donald Trump. It about my father, who, like Trump, was also a New York salesman. Of course there were

This column is not about Donald Trump

Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | April 6, 2016

• This column is not about Donald Trump. It about my father, who, like Trump, was also a New York salesman. Of course there were