https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-public-sector-wage-cap-1.5163753 What a collection of soggy wimps Canadians can be. They elected Doug Ford as premier. Ford has used his position to kiss up to the rich – and I…
Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images Today is a very special day in the history of Canada. The 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 14,000 of our soldiers joined the assault on Hitler's Atlantic…
There are few journalists with the intellect of the Irish Times’ Fintan O’Toole. Here’s an opinion piece from June of last year in which O’Toole writes that we’re in an…
Four guys from North London calling themselves “Led By Donkeys” have been posting billboards laying bare their despair of the “lies, lunacy and hypocrisy” of Brexit and the Brexiteers. For…
They must have taught Grade 10 history a little differently at Toby Barrett's high school. #onpoli #BillionABeer pic.twitter.com/g9aNkfHZ79 — Nathan Sager (@n8sager) June 5, 2019 Recommend this Post
Donald Trump has been effusive in his praise of Boris Johnson and supports his bid to replace Theresa May as the next Tory prime minister of the UK. I wonder…
D-Day memorials, today’s included, have been transformed into a photo-op for a gaggle of politicians, some of which should be ashamed not proud of their attendance. Sabre-rattlers, likeTrump, come to…
FREDERICTON, N.B. – It’s now been 75 years since our magnificent Canadian soldiers went ashore at Juno Beach in Normandy to play their part the grim and deadly task of…
More than half the fish that reaches store shelves around the world today is farmed fish. There are some, quite a few in fact, who claim aquaculture will become increasingly…
A day of commemoration. Lest we forget.
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer says switching to a zero-carbon reality by 2050 would cripple the UK economy to the tune of a trillion pounds. Of course, Philip Hammond, also…
As the climate crisis continues there are many ways that we all can try to slow it down. The biggest changes need to happen at the political level enforcing sustainable…
Freedom House has released a report, Freedom in the World, 2019: Democracy in Retreat. The illustration speaks volumes. So far it has been antiliberal populist movements of the far right—those…
Photo by Scott Lowe The war on terror unleashed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack has led to almost two decades of unchecked militarism. We are spending more…
Back in April I wrote about one of the things I am proudest to have been a part of during my time on Parliament Hill; Bill C-262, An Act to…
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread sense that liberal capitalism had triumphed in the battle of ideas, and that socialism as a plausible alternative was…
Doug Ford has announced that public sector wages in Ontario will be capped at one percent — because the province is in a fiscal emergency. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Doug…
The first week of June has finally come and with that the Fall Federal Election keeps getting closer and closer. There are only a few weeks left on the Parliamentary…
“There ought to be clowns – Well, maybe next year” are the haunting words at the end of the Stephen Sondheim song that is a lament using a circus metaphor.…
Prince Charles Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom should be winding down by the time this article is posted. It has been an interesting spectacle to watch. The…
