Elizabeth May has always been a good measure less progressive than the party rank and file, probably the inevitable result of her Mulroney years. Like her provincial cohort, Andrew Weaver,…
As I've mentioned many times I've always liked Elizabeth May. She always struck me as the kind of decent politician I admire.I liked her so much that I would have…
Financial elites have waged a decades-long campaign of self-interest against Canadians. They won; we lost. The most important front has been action to control mass media and reduce the influence…
I don’t much care for his strategy most of the time, but the Greens can’t keep doing the same thing when the other parties are playing to run out the…
Someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: “A few things spring to mind.…
Today is an exceptional time for democracy—the first time in history that most nations in the world may be called democratic (assuming we are generous with our definition). Democracy has,…
There are many things that go into successful election campaigns, much more than most people typically see from the outside. Yes there’s the policy, the money to run the campaign,…
In his column today, Rick Salutin offers a withering assessment of the NDP that I fear is all too accurate. In a phrase, what most ails the party is what…
It’s been damp and chilly down here on the island. It’s not great but at least the rains have been limiting the fire risk and we’ve yet to have one…
Illustration by maystra/iStock Public banks are resurgent, triggered by the failure of private finance to meaningfully confront the green transformation. But will resurgent public banks act in the public or…
I’m in Scarborough for the summer, so expect some even more off the hill food reviews in the weeks and months to come. My first installment comes from a trip…
Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Pearl discusses the climate despair of people understandably having difficulty working toward a longer term which is utterly neglected in our most…
Obamacare was never a simple, clean piece of legislation. Paul Krugman writes: The Affordable Care Act was an imperfect and incomplete reform. The political compromises needed to get it through…
When getting ready for election campaigns, all parties put together their various platforms. Inside each of those platforms are ideas that are well-known to the public, some that have been…
Snipe Yeomanson, Bjorn von Flapjack III and Yours Screwly played last night, and we were godlike geniuses, basically. Here’s our latest vid, directed by the brilliant Nick “The Knife” Nelson,…
Conservative leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer sent another letter to prime minister Justin Trudeau. He wants Justin to come clean on his secret tax. You know the one. It was the…
Coupled with comparable high rates of staff changes in the senior ranks of the public service, unprecedented staff turn-over in a critical part of Premier Dwight Ball’s office raise questions…
For much of the nineteenth century, Iran has been a democracy – if sometimes a limited one. Until right after World War Two, it was often a limited one –…
Are you ready for the upcoming election campaign? You’re going to hear more bullshit this year than you did last time and last time they really laid it on thick.…
