On Saturday, five days before Election Day, the Ontario Liberal leader conceded the election. Usually, politicians wait until, you know, the actual vote has taken place. But Kathleen Wynne insisted…
Michael Harris writes that the ghost of King George III stalks the White House. Soon he will float into Quebec: King George III is in the Oval Office and he’s…
Have you dug into Doug Ford’s ‘fully-costed’ plan for Ontario? I trust it has satisfied your thirst for knowledge? It reads like a used-car salesman’s figures done on the back…
Alberta’s United Conservative Party generates a lot of noise. Other than the Trans Mountain Pipeline, however, not a lot of it seems to have much to do with the principal…
The PC candidate for Brampton North Ripudaman Dhillon is currently facing four lawsuits, and eight claims of fraud stemming from his immigration consultancy business. Former clients allege he duped them…
This past weekend was a nightmare was a grand finale for the Liberal Party of Ontario. As many people know, Kathleen Wynne bailed on the party this weekend and is…
This just in from the “strange-bedfellows” department: When it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline, Jason Kenney, BC premier John Horgan and Green Party leader Elizabeth May are singing from…
Justin Trudeau, bless his little heart, has denounced Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum exports as “insulting.” That’s because Team Trump has used the contrivance that the tariffs are in…
Oil tanker at Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal • Photo by Roy Luck Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced on May 29 that the Government of Canada will buy the existing Trans…
On May 20, half the people of Venezuela went to vote. They delivered a mandate to Nicolás Maduro, the 55-year-old successor to Hugo Chávez and the leader of the Chavista…
Andrew Sullivan has a thought-provoking essay in New York Magazine about how we’re killing off liberal democracy and not just in Poland or Hungary or the United States either. This…
Photo by Dimitri Svetsikas It’s hard to pinpoint when the bifurcation of all of society into either oppressor or oppressed was first articulated. Hegel noted in 1802 that “he Catholics…
It came to Hank at a conference on transatlantic issues a few years back. There was an address on artificial intelligence that to Kissinger was a yawner until the presenter…
Photo by RJA1988 Is it appropriate for NDP Members of Parliament to be working for “greater friendship” with a country that is killing and maiming thousands of non-violent protestors? Would…
After all these months of stories about men behaving badly, it was about time that women had a chance to behave like complete a-holes. Equality take a long time, but…
The populist answer to Italy’s woes? Bring back the technocrats https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/03/populist-answer-to-italian-woes-more-teechnocrats?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Photo: Donald Trump with United States Secretary of Commerce Kim Kardashian (kidding). There was no shortage of political news to talk about this week on the Ryan Jespersen Show. On…
Donald Trump is going ahead with a planned meeting with Rocket May, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump wants Kim to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Kim…
You might not have seen video of the dramatic flash flooding that swept the historic town centre of Elliott City, Maryland, but that doesn’t matter. Perhaps you didn’t see the…
Disingenuous, Dishonest, Cynical. Calculating. Choose any or all of those adjectives, and you will have an apt assessment of Justin Trudeau and his decision to nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline…
