Infrastructure bank belongs in Toronto.
The good news is that Canada’s new infrastructure bank will be in operation by the end of this year. Despite the complaints of other centres, Toronto is the city where…
May 2017
accusations of cultural appropriation are a form of bullying — and don’t reduce racism
I’m increasingly dismayed by accusations of cultural appropriation that are used as weapons, rather than as a tool for raising awareness and educating. Accusations of appropriation have become a form…
Worthwhile Canadian initiative … Rona Ambrose said to be departing politics to help out the Wilson Centre
PHOTOS: Outgoing interim federal Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose listens seriously to someone in this Government of Canada shot found lingering on the Internet. Below: Ms. Ambrose and her domestic partner,…
One More Reason Donald Trump Must Go
When I ran this picture the other day I thought there was something strange about it. And it wasn't just that the U.S. media had been ordered out of the…
No one can say it better
…than this former senior advisor to Republican President George W. Bush. The president should resign. — David Frum (@davidfrum) May 16, 2017
Will a Repackaged National Energy Board Be Able to Meet Canada’s 21st Century Challenges?
By Chris Tollefson, Executive Director Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation. Early on in its remarkably candid treatise released today, the Expert Panel tasked with advising the Trudeau government…
More Thoughts on Tyranny
First the good news. Donald Trump increasingly seems to be psychologically incapable of pulling off some sort of fascist constitutional coup in the United States. He’s no Joe Stalin and…
He Did WHAT?
For a guy trying to distance himself from Russia, Donald Trump is doing just the opposite. America has been straining its ties with its allies and other friendly nations since…
Trudeau Promised to Fix the National Energy Board. Here’s What His Expert Panel Recommends
After six months of consultations, the National Energy Board (NEB) Modernization Expert Panel has delivered its long-awaited report. The results are damning. “In our consultations we heard of a National…
This Is Explosive
Let’s see Trump explain this away: President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and…
Onward, with Hillary
Just got this: Warren — Over the last few months, we’ve seen something remarkable: From the Women’s March to airports across the country where communities are welcoming immigrants and refugees…
Truth Dies in Four Modes
In Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s new book, “On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” he recounts Victor Klemperer’s observation that “truth dies in four modes, all of which we…
May 12: It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Here’s a Canadian news source I have neglected. So I have chosen a story in it that the Irving-owned newspapers of New Brunswick have neglected. http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/06/20/news/playing-hardball-jd-irving-way It brought my attention…
This week’s column: the politics of resentment
The guests at the event at the Royal Canadian Military Institute, just down University Avenue from the barricaded U.S. Consulate, were buzzing. Not about Christy Clark’s extraordinary comeback win in…
Political Prediction For BC
The BC Liberals and Greens have been on far more friendly terms with each other – both personally and politically – then the NDP and the Greens. NDP supporters still…
In Case You Haven’t Already Seen It – Trump’s Real Russia Connections
A Dutch documentary TV service, Zembla, has digested information that links Donald Trump to sketchy Russians and their money. There’s not a lot in the videos that isn’t already on…
Building a National Solidarity Coalition
Käthe Kollwitz – “Solidarity” (1932) Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) hosted a panel discussion during the Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress. The panelists discussed their experiences working with…
First Clapper, Then Zakaria. Congressional Republicans Called Out for Making the US a "Banana Republic"
It wasn’t an auspicious weekend for Donald Trump or for Congressional Republicans. Former director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, laid into Trump. Clapper said America’s institutions are under assault from…
X: Recipe for Hate coming soon!
Recipe For Hate is @kinsellawarren's upcoming YA novel about how a group of punks from Maine defeated a gang of neo-Nazis. #RecipeForHate pic.twitter.com/uRJQMdYbRx — Dundurn (@dundurnpress) May 15, 2017