Andrew Scheer and The Rebel Ties That Bind
As we all know, Andrew Scheer has vowed not to grant more interviews to Ezra Levant's hate mongering Rebel until it changes its "editorial direction."Whatever that means.But after having spent…
2017
That Kind Of Contempt Can Get Expensive
Last week, Mike Duffy launched a lawsuit against The Senate and the Attorney General. No one should be surprised. Michael Harris writes: Who could seriously argue that both the political…
What’s wrong at NDP HQ?
There was a promise that Babel-on-the-Bay would publish its Morning Line on the New Democratic Party leadership today. That is hardly possible when we have been stalled by the party…
This week’s column: when inmates run the asylum
BOSTON – Is being batshit crazy an impediment to high public office? It is a question being much-debated, these days, down here in the Disunited States. As the Unpresident continues…
The Quebec Demon #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The fancy word for it is revanchism. People who study words and language call it a borrowed word, meaning that we use it in English but got it from the…
Do You Think They’ll Get It? I’ll Take That Bet.
It’s not that hard to figure out unless you’re a 21st century neoliberal, a group that’s coming to resemble the anti-vaxxers. And, yeah, I’m lumping in that group the Dauphin…
Unthinkable
It’s impossible to imagine a Secretary of State in the Obama administration or George w. Bush’s or Bill Clinton’s or George H.W. Bush’s or Ronald Reagan’s or Jimmy Carter’s or…
Alberta politics never slows down, even in the summer.
Politics never slows down in Alberta, even in the summer. Here is a quick look at some of what has been happening: New UCP caucus has a spending problems A…
Lessons in Leadership from a Red Tory
Are there any Red Tories left in Alberta? If so they should consider what Kim Campbell has to say about leadership and apply her comments to the men vying for…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 32: The history police strike!
The Ontario elementary school teachers’ federation has voted to ask the provincial government to remove the name of Sir John. A. Macdonald from Ontario schools. According to the teachers’ union…
Leadership 2017 Candidate Rankings – August 27
We’ll have to wait until next week to learn about the final membership count for the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. But today’s Montreal debate and other developments result in one…
The work of politics
Politics is like many other skills, jobs and pastimes in that it requires work to succeed. Hard work, sometimes, for some folk, and easy for others, but always it requires…
The Day Donald Trump Went Full Fascist
It's hard to find a pattern in anything Donald Trump does. He's here, he's there, he's everywhere, he's out of his mind, he's making it up as he goes along.But…
Joe Biden’s Call to Rise Up Against Trump And the Radical Right
A passionate appeal from former vice president Joe Biden writing in The Atlantic: If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul…
Sometimes emulating Neville Chamberlain doesn’t work so well
I sure am glad PMO has worked hard to create those important "relationships" with White House staffers! #cdnpoli #USPolitics https://t.co/COL77nc38E — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 27, 2017 We are in…
The outrage must not dull
What’s going on – the ban on transsexuals, the removal of civil rights protections, the equivocation on nazis and white supremacists, the assault on immigrants, the pardon, and so much…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Seth Hanlon and Alexandra Thornton review the evidence from the U.S. showing that tax handouts to the rich don’t produce job gains…
Boiling Cauldrons of Contradiction
Donald Trump says he pardoned Joe Arpaio because of his long and distinguished government service. But Dara Lind writes that you don’t have to dig too deep to find the…
For Your Sunday Consideration
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