Canada’s Conscription Election: One Hundred Years Ago
During the First World War, on December 17, 1917, Canadians elected a federal government that backed the decision of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to conscript men…
James Laxer
Canada’s Conscription Election: One Hundred Years Ago
During the First World War, on December 17, 1917, Canadians elected a federal government that backed the decision of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to conscript men…
Obstruction of Justice Under Wraps: the Dred Scott Case
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly tweets that he is the victim of a “witch hunt”. Special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an investigation into the Trump administration’s dealings with Russia…
Obstruction of Justice Under Wraps: the Dred Scott Case
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly tweets that he is the victim of a “witch hunt”. Special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an investigation into the Trump administration’s dealings with Russia…
TRUMP-BANNON NEW GLOBAL ORDER: LEAGUE OF THE THREE EMPIRES
U.S. President Donald Trump is thin-skinned, narcissistic and obsesses over peripheral matters to a shocking extent. There is method in his madness, however. Together with his alter ego and chief…
TRUMP-BANNON NEW GLOBAL ORDER: LEAGUE OF THE THREE EMPIRES
U.S. President Donald Trump is thin-skinned, narcissistic and obsesses over peripheral matters to a shocking extent. There is method in his madness, however. Together with his alter ego and chief…
The Canadian Choice: Fundamental Change or Hard Right Populism
In the era of Brexit and Trump, Canadians face an increasingly clear choice between fundamental change and hard right populism. Canada is one of the major countries in the West…
The Canadian Choice: Fundamental Change or Hard Right Populism
In the era of Brexit and Trump, Canadians face an increasingly clear choice between fundamental change and hard right populism. Canada is one of the major countries in the West…
America: En Route from Republic to Post Democratic Empire
With the election of Donald Trump as President, the United States has taken another major step from a Republic to an Empire ruled by those who would be Caesars. The…
AMERICA: FROM REPUBLICANISM TO CAESARISM
With the election of Donald Trump as President, the United States has taken another major step from Republicanism to Caesarism. The American republic was born in a struggle against imperial…
The Liberals: The Natural Governing Party Returns Under Justin Trudeau
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec in…
The Liberals: The Natural Governing Party Returns Under Justin Trudeau
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec in…
The Liberals: From Natural Governing Party to an Uncertain Future, 1984 to 2012
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec…
The Liberals: From Natural Governing Party to an Uncertain Future, 1984 to 2012
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec…
The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…
The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
The Liberals: From Natural Governing Party to an Uncertain Future, 1984 to 2012
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec…
The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…