The Trump Regime’s first move
…to kill off ethics oversight, and gut democracy. U.S. House Republicans vote to gut independent ethics office against wishes of top GOP leaders WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday voted…
2017
Newfoundland and Nutrition in the 1940s #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Scholarly papers seldom get the attention of the news media. When a paper combines a well-known, emotionally charged issue – aboriginal residential schools – with intimations of racism and unethical…
On Meaning #nlpoli
Brexit supporter and insurance magnate Arron Banks got into a tussle on Twitter late last year with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard. Banks tweeted that Rome had been done in by…
Alberta’s carbon tax: Science is political when it doesn’t suit Wildrose agenda; politics is scientific when it does
PHOTOS: Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips at yesterday’s Edmonton press conference on the imposition Jan. 1 of the NDP Government’s carbon tax. Below: Wildrose Electricity and Renewables Critic Don MacIntyre.…
It was a good Holiday
I had a good New Years and Christmas holidays. A shipping error, in my favour, was perhaps the most notable event. The weather was cold, and it’ll be -25 or…
Thank you Rosemary Barton and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Celina Caesar-Chavannes appeared tonight on CBC Power and Politics with host Rosemary Barton. She was there to discuss her experiences with depression, before and since becoming MP for Whitby and…
Frank Magazine thought this was funny
Its principal, when not snorting leftover California corn flake off the floor of a Montessori somewhere in Ottawa, deeply resents happiness in others. So I offer this yet again, worried…
An Expert on Nuclear Nonproliferation Takes the Measure of Donald Trump
Avner Cohen is a professor of nuclear nonprolifteration studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Nuclear weapons and policy are his thing. When it comes to…
Agenda for 2017 – Defend Democracy
Washington Post columnist, E.J. Dionne, writes that progressives will have their hands full in 2017 but no challenge is greater than defending democracy, in the US and abroad. There should…
The Reign of Trumpism
We are all in for some very trying times in the Trump Era…more accurately described as the “Trump Error.” There are the obvious pitfalls of the man’s inadequacies, ignorances, arrogances,…
The Reign of Trumpism
We are all in for some very trying times in the Trump Era…more accurately described as the “Trump Error.” There are the obvious pitfalls of the man’s inadequacies, ignorances, arrogances,…
Canada – a "Haven for Corrupt Capital."
Income, Me? No, I Don’t Have Any Income. Last year when Trudeau announced Canada would be opening new visa offices in China I suggested it would be better if he…
Pope Francis: Capitalism is “Terrorism against all of humanity”
Photo by Long Thiên Once again, Pope Francis has made global headlines, shocking reporters late Sunday after blaming the “god of money” for the extremist violence that is taking place…
Eleven years ago today
OTTAWA — The Conservatives have edged ahead of the Liberals in support, according to poll results released today that also put Stephen Harper’s party in the lead in the crucial…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a warning about Donald Trump’s immediate moves to normalize corruption and cronyism as the foundation of his administration. And the…
Donald Trump Gaffes
The beginning of the Trump Presidency campaignincluded statements that would have ended the campaign of any other politician. Has an announcement speech ever looked so much like a flashily produced…
Don’t Give Up
For those of us who take the threat of climate change seriously, the future doesn’t look bright. Thomas Homer-Dixon writes: Now we also have to face the reality that Donald…
Tom Clark, we are going to miss you.
That has to be some kind of a make-up or lighting trick. How can Global Television’s Tom Clark look so young and yet admit to 40 years in broadcasting? When…
Praying for a miracle #nlpoli
People are talking about austerity but the simple truth is the people talking that way have a vested interest in exaggerating what is going on in the provincial government. Yes,…
Jason Kenney – just visiting Alberta? – piously congratulates Michael Ignatieff for Order of Canada
PHOTOS: A screen shot from the Conservative Party of Canada’s vile “Just Visiting” ads, which were designed to undermine then Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the spring of 2009. They…