The World’s "Most Complex Bilateral Relationship" Under Strain
Beijing locks horns with Washington this week at a gaudy Palm Beach golf resort in Florida as Xi Jinping comes calling on Donald Trump at TrumpWorld, a.k.a. Mar a Lago.…
April 2017
LA Times Editorial, Part III, "Trump’s Authoritarian Vision"
The third and latest installment of the Los Angeles Times four-part editorial on Donald Trump focuses on their president’s “authoritarian vision.” He swooped into politics, he declared, to subvert the…
If Hillary was President, Trump Would be Blaming Her for This
Just days after DJ Trump announced that America was taking Bashar Assad off the hook, that regime change was no longer a matter of Washington’s concern, Syrian government jets launched…
Monbiot – Speaking Truth to Power
It’s hard not to respect the Guardian’s enviro-scribe and social commentator, George Monbiot, although he can play hell with one’s blood pressure. His latest missive concerns how Trump and Brexit…
Comparing Transsexualism With Body Integrity Identity Disorder
Today, right-wing opinion site "The Federalist" published an essay "Woman Demands Doctors Sever Her Spinal Cord To Align Body To Mind (Same as a Transsexual Man)" by Glenn T. Stanton.…
US Military Should Get Out of the Middle East
A coalition force member provides security for Afghan soldiers deploying within Afghanistan on March 4, 2013 • Photo by Sgt. Matthew Freire To examine the political histories of Lebanon, Iraq,…
Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno Defeats Banker in Presidential Election
Photo from PanamaToday.com Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from the ruling Alianza Pais party, Lenin Moreno, won the Ecuadorean presidential election Sunday. With 99 percent of the official vote…
Reunite refugee families this Refugee Rights Day
On Refugee Rights Day 2017, the Canadian Council for Refugees is drawing attention to the need for equal access to family reunification for refugees. The post Reunite refugee families this…
Ralph’s Orphans
Think of it as Alberta’s self-inflicted wound or Ralph Klein’s lasting legacy. Ralph’s Orphans are the 79 thousand abandoned oil wells that now litter the province and represent a multi-billion…
What Goes Up…
Is Canada headed for a major airline disaster? Apparently the odds of a major aviation accident in our country are worsening. Cuts to Transport Canada have been eating away at…
On incentive programs
Let’s add a couple more points to Brad Wall’s attempt to hand out freebies to corporations in which he owns shares while the rest of Saskatchewan faces grinding austerity. First,…
Allies in hate: Soldiers of Odin and the Jewish Defence League
The Soldiers of Odin is a rapidly-growing far-Right anti-refugee, anti-immigrant racist organization now found across Canada. Experts call them a terror group. More on them here and here. The Jewish…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 4, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your…
A Living Wage Makes for a Good Business Plan
Helmi Ansari started a successful business and understands what’s it like to worry about paying the bills – and knows that when you’re stressed about paying bills you’re not focussed…
The Lords of Misrule
Neal Gabler is on to something. He admits that he was wrong about Donald Trump: So many of us were wrong, myself included, about Donald Trump. We saw in the…
The universe realigns: by-elections, (sort of) discussed and (kind of) analyzed
So: The Liberal vote was down in Markham, and the Tory vote was up. Liberals won big in Ottawa-Vanier, which is the safest Liberal seat in the galaxy. But it…
Alibiing elitism 150 years later.
If there was just one institution in Canada that could be changed this year, many Canadians would choose the Senate. They are tired of the elitism shown by the prime…
Scott Pruitt: The Roasting of a Climate Change Denier
When Donald Trump is finally driven from office and put on trial, I hope that Scott Pruitt, the climate change denying head of the Environmental Protection Agency, joins him in…
The time for silence
Trump. “Russia”. Clinton. “Democracy”. …Just ignore those pesky Wikileaks that prove it was all a lie aided by media collusion to manipulate people, because Russia or something. https://t.co/UUChBeMkwP — Richard…