Gerry Nicholls

Gerry Nicholls is a director for the Society for Quality Education. His biography on the SQE website is as follows:

Gerry Nicholls is one of Canada’s most prominent defenders of our economic and political freedoms. For more than twenty years he was a senior officer at the National Citizens Coalition, Canada’s largest independent pro-free market advocacy group. While at the NCC Gerry directed the group’s political strategy and oversaw its communication campaigns. Gerry now works as a freelance writer and as an independent political consultant. His columns on political affairs have appeared national newspapers including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, and the Sun Media chain. Currently Mr. Nicholls is a Senior Fellow with the Democracy Institute.

Publications

Books

• Gerry Nicholls, Loyal to the Core: Stephen Harper, Me and the Ncc, published by Freedom Press Canada, 1 March 2009.

Articles, Opinion & Comment

2014

• Gerry Nicholls, 'How to embrace a problem: Conservatives can use bad polls to fundraise', The Hill Times, 30 July 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Harper’s stance on Israel is good politics: Gerry Nicholls', The Hill Times, 28 July 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Activist Centrism: Canada’s new ideology', The Hill times, 21 July 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'A fundraising experiment the NDP should avoid', The Hill Times, 14 July 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Harper’s not your typical federal leader', The Hill Times, 7 July 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'How to win an election in two easy steps', The Hill Times, 30 June 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Gerry Nicholls on his hazy, lazy, political predictions', The Hill Times, 23 June 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Forced dues blues, unions risk triggering public backlash against political activities: Nicholls', The Hill Times, 16 June 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Why I can’t write a Harper ‘tell all’ book', The Hill Times, 9 June 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Political grudge match: ideologues vs. professionals', The Hill Times, 2 June 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Trudeau’s drive for ideological purity', The Hill Times, 26 May 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Harper’s a political warrior, and that’s okay', The Hill Times, 19 May 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Trudeau and Wynne, two Liberals boldly going in different directions', The Hill Times, 12 May 2012.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Why Harper doesn’t care if the media like him', The Hill Times, 5 May 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'The irrational politics of tribalism', The Hill Times, 28 April 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'The ideology of public broadcasting', The Hill Times, 21 April 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Trudeau’s middle-class conundrum', The Hill Times, 14 April 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'How to deal with a scandal', The Hill Times, 7 April 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'The secret to Harper’s success', The Hill Times, 31 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Emotion drives Quebec election debate', The Hill Times, 24 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Fair Elections Act probably contains flaws, but not anti-democratic evil', The Hill Times, 17 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Harper still stands on firm ground', The Hill Times, 10 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Trudeau’s strategic box has escape hatches', The Hill Times, 3 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Manning Centre has wrong focus', The Hill Times, 24 February 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Convention resolutions tell us what makes Liberals tick: national strategies', The Hill Times, 17 March 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Senate reform leaves voters cold', The Hill Times, 10 February 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Budget day important, despite Olympics', The Hill Times, 3 February 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Donor fear keeps Tory dollars flowing', The Hill Times, 27 January 2014.
• Gerry Nicholls, 'Gerry Nicholls: what the party leaders must do in 2014', The Hill Times, 13 January 2014.

2011

• Gerry Nicholls, 'Union bosses bashing democracy in Ontario', Canada Free Press, 14 March 2011.

2008

• Gerry Nicholls, 'Harper suffering from a bad case of amnesia', The Interim, March 2008.

Affiliations

As at February 2010:

• Democracy Institute
• National Citizens Coalition
• Society for Quality Education

Resources

• Making Sense with Nicholls (Personal blog)