Time’s Up
Next time the House of Commons is scheduled to sit will be on January 27th.
David Graham
An Unsympathetic Death
Last week, United Healthcare CEO Brain Thompson was murdered in New York City on his way to a conference of investors in his American health insurance company.
Transphobia As A Wedge
White supremacy gave way to pro-life, and transphobia is the new dogwhistle
Canada’s $250 Embarrassment
Canadians and the general public across the West are looking for significant, transformative change.
The Thin Red Line That Is Ukraine
Now that the Democrats have lost every lever of national power in the United States, the outgoing American President has finally given Ukraine the green light to use long range…
An Amoral Trump Is No Accident
The American right wing alliance is far more insidious than they are given credit for, reminiscent of a religious-oligarchal pact that has defined another region's politics for centuries.
Now what?
Many Canadians will wake up this morning feeling mad, or perhaps sad, that Donald Trump has once again been elected President of the United States.
Last Chance, America
It's October 1932 Germany in the United States. Which path will they choose for January 1933?
A Third Referendum?
Slogans have meaning.
Trudeau Must Go? Not So Fast
There are widespread reports of a petition circulating within Liberal Caucus calling on Justin Trudeau to step down as leader.
DeAdder Fired and the Weird Week
Yesterday afternoon, Michael DeAdder announced that he’d been fired by the Postmedia-owned Halifax Chronicle Herald, where he has been the editorial cartoonist for more than three decades, and for which…
Language Politics: False Division
Quebec's focus on alienating anglophones hurts French everywhere else
Political finance reform
In December of 2017, in the midst of the controversy in my home province around the legitimacy of saying “Bonjour, hi!” to a customer entering a shop in Quebec, the…
When Liberals Lose Montreal
The Carnage is not over
A Political Near Death Experience
When a blog post from 2006 came back to bite
Substantive Reform
What, exactly, are some of the real social reforms we could be making to make a difference to our country for the long term?
Redecorating Isn’t Reform
Not only in Canada
Don’t Count Your Chickens
It was a remarkable turn of events.
The Death of Canadian Medicare
Nearly a fifth of New Brunswick residents don’t have access to a family doctor. Over 400 family doctors in Quebec have left the public healthcare system altogether, and are free…
Woke: The Weirdest Insult
What is it? What isn't it?