On Tuesday, the president of Cenovus Energy Inc., one of the Big Five players in the Alberta oilsands, called for temporary production cuts across the Canadian oil sector to push the sinking price of oil back up again. It’s all about supply and demand, as the well-educated readers of this blog
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Scary Five Days of Fury
There was clearly something terribly wrong with Donald Trump during his recent visit to France.He seemed bitter, paranoid, angry. Afraid of everything, including the rain.It was clear that the midterm election losses had hit him hard, and shattered his once lacquered confidence.But who knew it was as bad as this?Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Underlining the ignorance of Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump is but an immature child playing at being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. The point was so perfectly positioned the other day for all to understand by French President Emmanuel Macron. Vive la France! It is when as a tourist you stand
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Garner comments on the need to acknowledge the humanity of people living in poverty – which leads to the inescapable need to use readily-available resources to ensure a reasonable standard of living. And Arindrajit Dube studies the effect of an increased minimum
Continue readingPostArctica: Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up the trajectory of the story and can clearly see that there will be a tragic ending because unlike all other
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump, the Enemy Rain, and the Scary Trumpy Bear
As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump's trip to France, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, was a diplomatic catastrophe.And a PR disaster similar to the time he climbed the steps to Air Force One, with a long piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe.He was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Blue Wave That Just Kept Growing
I can only imagine what state Donald Trump must be in this weekend, after the way he reacted to the midterm election results.Going after and then banning CNN's Jim Acosta from the White House, firing Jeff Sessions, mocking some of his own defeated Republican candidates. Firing off inflammatory tweets like this one. Denying that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Hoards are in the House.
Donald Trump can stop worrying about the hoards heading north in Mexico. They served their purpose during the run-up to the mid-terms. They gave him a target for his bigotry. And it worked for him. It brought out a streak of meanness and uncaring in Americans. But the mid-term elections
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Painful Crazy Day of Reckoning
Well it wasn't the giant blue wave I had been hoping for, to bury the sinister sand man Donald Trump once and for all.But it was still quite a wave, and it was a smashing victory. Democrats seized control of the House while Republicans held the Senate on Tuesday in a national
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that stagnating and even declining life expectancies and nother indications of declining social health are the result of purely political choices: In 2010 a government-commissioned review looking at the relationship between health and wealth – only the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Donald Trump Win Or Lose The Midterm Elections?
I can only imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling, with the midterm elections now only a few hours away. He's been ranting and raving and spewing out bigotry, at one rally after the other. So he must be bagged, he's clearly desperate, and the suspense must be killing him.But then he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Liar Donald Trump And The Corruption Of The Cons
He's always been a liar. A firm believer in the old saying that a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.But during the midterm election campaign he has been outdoing himself. In the first nine months of his presidency, Trump made 1,318
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Book Review Adam Tooze. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. Viking. New York. 2018 The global economic crisis is now more than a decade old, and is far from definitively behind us. Indeed, many fear, with good reason, that the recent, uneven and lethargic global recovery
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s New And Disgusting Racist Ad
There are now just five days to go before the midterm elections, and Donald Trump has never felt so threatened.Polls suggest that he could lose control of the House and maybe even the Senate.So he's pulling out all the stops.And playing the racist cardRead more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on Scott Moe’s choice to pursue strongman politics indistinguishable from the Donald Trumps and Doug Fords of the world. For further reading…– D.C. Fraser reported on Moe’s willingness to stand with and behind Ford no matter how preposterous his claims. And Fatima Syed noted that both Moe and Ford
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Fall of the House of Trump.
It might have been the beginning of the end we saw the other day. Donald Trump’s words on the tragedy in Pittsburgh were the final bullets in a fool’s arsenal that ricocheted around the world. He complained that there would not have been the deaths involved if the synagogue had
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Want to know how to deal with Steve Bannon? Oddly enough, Jason Kenney has the answer!
Want to know how to deal with the irresponsible refusal by the organizers of the so-called Munk Debate to cancel their invitation to former Trump election strategist Steve Bannon to come to Canada and spew his racist dreck around our country? Follow the example of Jason Kenney! In most circumstances,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump: How It Ends, The Short Story
As we all know, Donald Trump and the New York Times have a rocky relationship, with Trump invariably calling the newspaper the "failing" New York Times.And the Times regularly embarrassing Trump with stories like this one. So when the newspaper's book review department decided to ask some of America's most talented
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How The Migrant Caravan Is Exposing Trump’s Extremism
The irony couldn't be greater. With the midterm elections now only a week away, Donald Trump is stepping up his insane rhetoric.Accusing a caravan of desperate men, women, and children of trying to invade the United States. Even as he prepares to go where many do not want him. Read more
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Jackson argues that Canada has nothing to gain in trying to race Donald Trump to the bottom when it comes to corporate taxes: While marginal effective corporate-tax rates are clearly a factor in business investment decisions, they are by no means
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