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  Lawrence Martin writes that a sizeable minority of Canadians, six million, support Donald Trump or his ideology. It’s a number – more than the population of British Columbia – that’s not easy to fathom. It shows how susceptible Canada is to American currents. It suggests that as we watch

Al Jazeera sees the 1/6 insurrection on Capitol Hill as a perhaps unwitting effort to complete the job begun by a different gaggle of fanatics on 9/11. Canada also takes a blast for the “sensible centrists” in our media (and government) who appeased the Mango Mussolini. It is worth recalling

  On the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, president Joe Biden has said what so many have been saying lately, America’s democratic Republic is in peril.  Unlike many of those who spoke out before him, Biden put the finger of blame directly on one person, his predecessor, Donald Trump.

Andrew Coyne accepts that chaos is coming to the United States, if not at this year’s mid-terms, then by election year 2024. Coyne doesn’t presume to predict what the United States will become except that, at best, it will be on the authoritarian side of a vestigial democracy. The growing

Jimmy Carter reflects on the insurrection of last January 6th and the perilous road ahead . One year on, promoters of the lie that the election was stolen have taken over one political party and stoked distrust in our electoral systems. These forces exert power and influence through relentless disinformation,

  The Weather Network just posted its latest national update for January and February. The cold snap that has hammered the West is expected to relocate to central Canada. You’re welcome, Ontario. As the frigid air leaves British Columbia it will be replaced by warmer, wetter air off the Pacific.

While the media has focused on Omicron’s limited lethality compared to earlier Covid variants there’s much more to it than ICU beds and fatalities. Our medical officer of health, Bonnie Henry, is warning employers to prepare for a third of their staff to be grounded by the Omicron variant. One

  In 2006 we considered Idiocracy over-the-top satire. Today some people think it’s a documentary. Today we’re churning out movies that satirize climate breakdown.  Which films kept you entertained over the holidays? Was it Silent Night, the sweary festive Britcom starring Keira Knightley? The courtroom drama Naked Singularity, with John Boyega

The Guardian’s venerable eco-scribe, George Monbiot, has branched out into movie reviews. Singular. He’s only reviewing the one, DiCaprio’s latest, “Don’t Look Up.”  For George, Don’t Look Up is art imitating life, the mass media in particular. The movie is, in my view, a powerful demolition of the grotesque failures

Hard to believe. Women undergoing surgery might do better with a woman’s hand wielding the scalpel. Women who are operated on by a male surgeon are much more likely to die, experience complications and be readmitted to hospital than when a woman performs the procedure, research reveals. Women are 15%

  This is already sounding too good to be true. Two of Japan’s top motorcycle makers are developing a hydrogen-fueled engine for future bikes. Hydrogen is seen as a clean fuel for internal combustion. Instead of CO2, it emits H2O, water. There’s a snag.  Kawasaki has even launched its own

  I’m getting weary of the recent deluge of articles and op-eds about secessionism in America, nascent civil war, violent unrest. Then I came across  a piece in today’s Guardian written by Laurence H Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard and venerable Supreme Court advocate. Mr. Tribe is

  In a world riveted to violent natural catastrophes – hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and droughts, heatwaves and wildfires – slower moving calamities are easily overlooked. Canadians don’t dwell on the Ogallala acquifer or the American Great Plains, the US grain belt and its decline. It was ten years ago

  Somber talk for New Years Day. The editorial board of the New York Times paints a picture of a republic in peril. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day. It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, “When can