It's called the Case Padre or Father House in English. It looks at first glance like a school or a recreation centre.But it's actually a converted Walmart where the Trump regime sends immigrant kids forcibly separated from their parents.Read more »
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Accidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how NAFTA has proven wholly ineffective in deterring a destructive U.S. president from starting a gratuitous trade war – and how Canada should respond in charting a new economic course. For further reading…– Andrew Jackson has previously discussed the effects of NAFTA to date, as well as Canada’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer boots Maxime Bernier, self-appointed chief party ideologue, from Opposition front bench
It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, what with right-wing purists jumping all over him for canning Maxime Bernier from the Opposition party’s front bench. In addition to being the normally ineffectual Mr. Scheer’s chief rival for the hearts and minds of the country’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Artificial unintelligence: Tiny computers in tiny hands are the real threat to civilization as we know it
It’s not big computer brains empowered by artificial intelligence that are going to destroy civilization as we know it. It’s little tiny computers, even if they’re pretty dumb, that are small enough to put in the tiny hands of unsupervised children, hopped-up frat boys and shallow narcissists like the 45th
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How We Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Tariff War
In one of my last posts I ran this photoshop creation I made, to represent what many millions of Canadians would probably love to see happen to Donald Trump.Especially after the deranged bully threatened to escalate his insane trade war on Canada and Canadians. Escalating his attack on Prime Minister Justin
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Phony Trumpling Capitulation
In my last post I looked at how hard it was proving for Andrew Scheer to end his treasonous campaign of cheerleading for Donald Trump, and undermining his own country.The idea of putting his country before his party and his foaming hatred for Justin Trudeau being just too hard to
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: From Teddy’s ‘Bully Pulpit.’
Trust President Donald Trump to get it wrong. He thinks of President Theodore Roosevelt’s White House ‘bully pulpit’ as a place to bully other world leaders. What Roosevelt saw as a great place from which to show strong leadership, Trump seems to think of it as a safe haven from
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Mad at Donald Trump? Money talks (to him)
I don’t think I need to go into details again to my readers about Donald Trump’s antics at the G7, or him and his advisers basically equating Prime Minister Trudeau to the modern day equivalent of Benedict Arnold because horrors, publicly stating again that we disagree with and would be
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Shaming of the Monstrous Con Trumpling Andrew Scheer
Ever since Andrew Scheer became Con leader he has been attacking Justin Trudeau like some kind of zombie from Hell, or Trump's America.Day in day out with the support of the country's shabby Con media he has tried to debase him or portray him as a failure.Or worse, tried to
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Donald Trump’s play date with Kim Jong Un.
The American president plans to add to his infamy tomorrow as he meets with Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea. It seems incongruous for Donald Trump to be traveling about the world causing consternation and havoc wherever he goes. Will it take the North Korean dictator to show Trump
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, and the Treason of Andrew Scheer
Nobody can deny that Justin Trudeau worked really hard to try to get Donald Trump to agree to a joint statement at the G7 Summit.No Prime Minister has ever worked harder to try to convince a madman to see reason.And for a while he thought he had succeeded.And that the summit
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: It was not all about Trump.
The American president flew out of Canada’s Bagotville air base yesterday a disappointed egotist. He stopped by to impress the other world leaders and got the cold shoulder. Not even the stunning spring beauty of the Charlevois region of Quebec could rescue the frosty atmosphere of the G7 meeting. But
Continue readingAlberta Politics: No Progressives Allowed! No entry without secret decoder! UCP serves up private Pride pancakes only today
While thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, were taking part in Pride events throughout Edmonton today, Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party held a private, conservatives-only “Pride Breakfast” a few blocks from the route of the parade along fashionable Whyte Avenue on the city’s south side. This reflects the unique problem Mr.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian antisocial populism. And Doug Nesbitt offers some lessons for workers based on the province’s previous PC government. – David Roberts takes a look at our
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Promises, promises!
Most people are sceptical about political promises. We should certainly be dubious of conservative leader Doug Ford’s recent scattering of promises in the Ontario election. Some, such as paving over the Green Belt around Toronto, had to be withdrawn immediately but he still has a backlog of questionable promises, such
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Day We Burned Ole D.C. Down … I blame Stephen Harper for Canada’s latest trade troubles!
I blame Stephen Harper. Face it, Canada’s latest trade troubles wouldn’t have happened without him! If Mr. Harper hadn’t spent $30 million or so of our tax money “commemorating” the War of 1812, who would’ve known our side burned down the White House and sundry other buildings in Washington, D.C.,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the parallels between the presidency of Donald Trump and the danger of a Doug Ford-led government in Ontario. For further reading…– Hugh Mackenzie has done the math on the PCs’ non-platform, finding a fiscal hole of $13.75 billion every year. – Graeme Gordon reports on Ontario Proud’s voter
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Shameful Surrender of Andrew Scheer
It's been a few days since Donald Trump declared economic war on Canada, and imposed punishing tariffs on our steel and aluminum exports.And for most of that time Andrew Scheer has shocked many Canadians by appearing to cheerlead against his own country.Claiming that Justin Trudeau hadn't done enough to stop Trump
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump to be at Le Manoir Richelieu.
Despite being in danger from maddened beavers, American president Donald Trump says he is coming to gamble with the rich and famous of the world this weekend. The other six members of the G7 are not his friends and the old Manoir overlooking the St. Lawrence River is not to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau, the Elephant, and the Moose
Justin Trudeau hasn't wasted any time taking his case against Donald Trump's tariffs directly to the American people.In an interview on the NBC News show Meet the Press he made the case that those tariffs not only make no sense, they're an insult to this country."The idea that we are
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