Photo by Antonio Morales García We’ve made it through 2017. The first-season installment of presidential Tweetville is ending where it began, on the Palm Beach, Fla., golf course of Mar-a-Lago.…
As a new year gets underway, we’ve been taking some time to reflect. 2017 was a breakthrough year for DeSmog Canada’s independent journalism and we really mean it when we…
Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s soon to be released book about the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, already has the Mango Mussolini in knots. If you want a taste…
It’s a problem but it’s not here. It’s an American problem, a European problem. It happens in other countries, not ours. “It” is the waning of liberal democracy. You know,…
So, Andrew Scheer has refused to take part in Pride celebrations. It was in the news. “Not everybody marches,” he sniffs, adding that he will continue to be one of…
Late last year, BMA Management Consulting produced a hefty 517-page report called a subsequent one for 2017* that examines a wide variety of socio-economic indicators in more than 100 Ontario…
That didn’t take long. Donald Trump has lashed out at his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, over revelations in a new book in which the Breitbart boss says many unflattering…
The New York based risk consultancy, Eurasia Group, warns the world is facing a “big, unexpected crisis” in 2018. “In the 20 years since we started Eurasia Group, the global…
By Edward Struzik This article was originally published on The Conversation Canada. Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod was right when he issued a “red alert” in November and called for…
Every despot has a Rasputin and Donald Trump’s is named Steve Bannon. The now ousted chief political adviser has now turned on Trump’s namesake, Don Jr., accusing the son, who…
You have to wonder if Donald Trump is beginning to re-evaluate his personnel choices. A new book suggests that Steve Bannon is not acting in Trump’s best interests. David Smith…
Since the avowed aim of legalizing recreational cannabis is to keep the product out of the hands of kids by driving out the black market, our federal and provincial governments…
It sure looks that way. Check this out: Minimum wage hikes across Canada this year could cost about 60,000 jobs, despite the benefits they would bring, the Bank of Canada…
What do you do when well-meaning people dear to you advise you to ignore your doctors? (And what if the doctors are wrong?) I generally rally against non-scientifically verifiable medical…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the Republicans’ tax scam is designed for the sole purpose of further enriching their already-wealthy donors, while Theodoric Meyer…
We have been told that U.S. President Donald Trump wants to have another inauguration this month. This time he wants a proper count of all his supporters out in the…
Not long ago I warned that Andrew Scheer's shadowy inner circle of religious fanatics, the group known as The Conclave, was in a full blown panic, or a friggin' frenzy.Their…
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