The Con Media and the Conapocalypse
It was Rosemary Con Barton's last At Issue panel of the year, and as usual it was a horror show.The ghastly Con conclave declared Pierre Poilievre to be the politician…
December 2017
When All Else Fails
… claim voter fraud. That is what the notoriously graceless Alabama loser and alleged pedophile Roy Moore is asserting, as he steadfastly maintains that he didn’t lose the election to…
Dionne On Democracy
As the year comes to an end, E.J. Dionne writes a meditation on Democracy. He starts with first principles: In embracing democracy, as the historian James Kloppenberg has written, we…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Richard Partington writes that the poorest Britons stand to bear the brunt of the next wave of technological change through further diminished employment…
Donald Trump and the Fatal Year of 2018
I was doing some research for a year-end post, when I came across this cartoon, and I almost fell out of my chair laughing.To think that so many people ran…
Isn’t it supposed to get easier?
With two years in office behind him, you would expect Justin Trudeau to be getting more adept at his job. He is not. This has been a year for criticisms,…
Trump may have emboldened hate in Canada, but it was already here
While many Canadians often associate the continuing rise in white supremacist hate in Canada to US President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric, the right-wing extremist movement was already “alive and well”…
Dec. 29: Modern War
Muslim terrorists are not the only ones who use terror as a method of warfare. The western world has a long history of terrorism. Names that spring to mind are…
Maybe This Is a Good Thing
Imagine if he’d been away golfing the entire year?
Dear Roy.
Dear Roy Moore: You’re a God fearin’, God praisin’, God lovin’ man. You proudly proclaim that God’s law, or at least your God’s law as you perceive it, is the…
Ezra And The Law: A Small Victory?
Ezra Levant’s twitter feed from back in the fall of 2017: Ezra’s twitter feed today, after I sent a series of emails to the Alberta Law Society and then the…
Not All That Surprising
Given the downright insanity that seems to pervade American evangelical circles, and given their habit of richly perverting the message of Christ, I am really not surprised that a disproportionate…
Segal’s Right
I admire Hugh Segal. He has always had the courage to speak truth to power. In this morning’s Globe and Mail he advocates welcoming the many Haitians who are presently…
Globe and Mail: Recipe For Hate “shines…Kinsella nails it…absorbing, jarring and raw”!
Wow! This is a great way to end 2017. And, I am honoured. The Globe and Mail has reviewed Recipe For Hate – and they like it! Their review: Recipe…
The Shameless Con Media and the Cowardly Cons
As I'm sure you know, many Cons are not very smart, they tend to be extremely paranoid, and they're definitely not very brave.Not because their brains are necessarily smaller, but…
Let’s call it Scheer willpower.
You may have been wondering what Andrew Scheer has been doing since winning the leadership lottery run by the Conservative Party of Canada? Our guess is that he has been…
New column day
Here, on how Donald Trump is just one of far too many politicians trying to undercut needed counterbalances in the media, political systems and civil society. For further reading…– Rem…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rupert Neate reports on the latest numbers showing the world’s 500 richest people adding a full trillion dollars to their wealth in…
There was a whole lotta scrambling going on, 24/7 … can the 2015 PMO security breach whodunit be solved?
PHOTOS: Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at right, somewhere in Iraq in 2015 (Photo: Screenshot of Global News video). Below: The very model of a modern major general, although…