The Hollow President
E. J. Dionne has Donald Trump’s number. He writes in The Washington Post: One of the most cynical quotations in history is also one of the most widely attributed. Let’s…
September 2017
French Labor Reform Attempts to Remove Labor Union Protection
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Letter we sent to Ontario’s Attorney-General, the Premier’s Office, and Toronto’s lead Crown Attorney
About this issue, here and here and here. Contrary to what we had been told, and contrary to what we had been promised, we have not heard from any Crown…
Andrew Scheer and the Religious Extremists
It's hard to believe, it's so bizarre it boggles the mind. It's like Andrew Scheer is getting his marching orders straight from Donald Trump or his Godzilla.For it has only…
New column day
Here, on how little Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party ultimately seem to have learned from the fall of Grant Devine and the PCs. For further reading…– Geoff Leo continues…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matthew Hoffmann discusses the reality that addressing climate change will require substantial changes to how we currently live – but that we…
By Jingo, by Trump.
That little putz with the freaky haircut who fronts for the North Korean generals is likely to lose his idiot smirk. American President Donald Trump seems to have run out…
This week at the UCP: huge cuts, social conservative sins, and complaints of fractious fibs dominate the conversation
PHOTOS: A screenshot of United Conservative Party leadership frontrunner Jason Kenney as he appeared during his Internet town hall Tuesday. Below: UCP leadership contenders Doug Schweitzer and Brian Jean, U…
Ryan Dean’s Bizarre Leap of Logic
There was a time when I or the other writers (when there were other writers) would post "fan mail" from our detractors because it was funny as hell. I haven't…
Not Aliens
but… saw this today on Angers under the Cote Saint Paul leg of the Turcot rebuild. It does have a driver who is probably very highly paid and I wonder…
Now is the time for Canada to walk away from the Safe Third Country Agreement
It’s disingenuous for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to publicly claim that Canada is safe for asylum claimants while the Bush-era Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) prevents refugees coming from…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – NDP McGill has prepared handy summaries of the background and policy proposals of each of the leadership candidates. – Tim Harper…
Hurricane Harvey A Poignant Reminder for Why We Must Decarbonize Economy
The loss of life and property damage from Hurricane Harvey has been a very real human tragedy for those living along the U.S. Gulf Coast. For the rest of us,…
le Carre on the Perilous Future Awaiting Donald Trump
Former spy turned spy novelist extraordinaire, John le Carre, thinks he knows a thing or two about Donald Trump. The 85-year old author says Trump reminds him of his own…
The 3%? Turns Out They’re Rubbish.
We’ve known for years that 97% of scientific reports confirm the theory of anthropogenic climate change. 97% is a pretty powerful consensus but there’s still that contrarian 3%. What about…
Taking Stock of Human Health in the Anthropocene
There are 7.5 billion of us scattered across the globe. We inhabit all manner of places – deserts, swamps, temperate plains, polar regions – some hot, some cold; some wet,…
Rush Limbaugh Says Hurricane Irma Is Fake News
It's a monster hurricane, roaring out of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded, battered the islands of the…
Sept. 06: Hey! What’s Yer Values…?
Values? They’re a crock. Most of us humans don’t have any values. We just have prejudices that we call values. Canadians have gone from murdering native peoples to holding slaves,…