Northern Reflections: Mike Roman

In Georgia, a guy named Mike Roman has been indicted in the case involving Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election in that state. Michael Harris writes that Roman has been a Republican dirty trickster for decades: Roman’s backstory is a tangled tale, but one worth telling.

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Northern Reflections: Don’t Be Fooled

Global News reports that in 2018 Doug Ford instructed his Environment Minister, Rod Phillips, to make environmental legislation ineffective: When Ontario Premier Doug Ford first took office in 2018, his first environmental minister was given a simple yet central task: get climate legislation out of the way of business. The

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Northern Reflections: They’re Expendable

If there’s one thing modern conservatives have trouble with, it’s the truth. Max Fawcett writes: Sometimes, it pays to read past the headline. That’s certainly the case with a recent National Post story titled “Trudeau’s Law Society,” one that suggested “it’s no coincidence that more judges who donate to the

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Northern Reflections: Even Worse

The Canadian Press reports that Pierre Poilievre is selling conspiracy theories: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments. It is, some experts suggest, another sign that

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Northern Reflections: Something’s Out Of Joint

In a blistering report, Ontario’s auditor general has skewered Doug Ford’s government.  Rob Ferguson and  Rob Benzie write in The Toronto Star: Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives “favoured certain developers” in a controversial $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap rammed through in a fashion the premier admits was “wrong,” the auditor general found.

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