Ex-PC Leader Patrick Brown (CP/Aaron Vincent Elkaim) This week saw the dramatic destruction of Patrick Brown’s leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario after allegations of past sexual misconduct…
For decades if not centuries, social conservatives and devoutly religious types have led the charge in favour of discrimination against LGBT people. They have fought tooth and nail to ruin…
Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in ‘Call Me By Your Name’ I’m delighted to share my annual list of my favourite feature films released in 2017. Of course, I’m no…
As 2017 draws to a close, a few political observations: 2017 saw the cancer that is Donald Trump assume the Oval Office and proceed to denigrate American democracy and government…
Happy to post this statement yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in its entirety. Sadly, support for this important apology isn’t unanimous across the Canadian political spectrum: the Conservative Party…
As long as we’ve recorded human history, we’ve known that politics is a nasty business, perhaps the nastiest. But also one of the most important – the pursuit of power…
Results of Aussie vote on equal marriage, courtesy ABC Ireland was the first country in 2015 to pass equal marriage by national popular vote, by a margin of 62% to…
Actor Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood Netflix has announced that Kevin Spacey will no longer play any part in its series, ‘House of Cards.’ This follows a series of allegations…
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has opposed equality and human rights for LGBT people on every occasion he possibly could.When LGBT people have faced…
Jason Kenney’s at it again, arguing that public taxpayers which include many who don’t agree with retrograde Catholic beliefs, should have their tax dollars finance lessons that teach that LGBT…
New NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Just a short note to express my happiness with Jagmeet Singh’s resounding victory in the federal NDP leadership yesterday. I did have a sense a…
NDP leadership candidate Guy Caron I wrote last week about the future of the New Democratic Party, as well as the future for progressive politics in Canada. Since then, I’ve…
Ever since the horrible Donald Trump conned his way into the White House by winning working class support in the American Rustbelt, I’ve been consumed by the question: What mistakes…
U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Just a quick note about yesterday’s election in Great Britain. Called by Prime Minister Theresa May to grab a huge majority, she instead found herself…
New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer While following the now-finished Conservative leadership race, I always felt supremely irritated when listening to Andrew Scheer speak. The same kind of irritation that hits…
B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan on election night I wrote last weekend about how the progressive/socialist left needed to start winning elections in order to prove they (and not wishy…
French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron Last year, we heard often from Bernie Sanders supporters and other sympathizers that the Democratic Party had forgotten about their poor and progressive base. Choosing…
Putra Kurniawan/EyeEm/Getty Images After various reports in minor media outlets or websites about this story, the Guardian has finally published about it. Still, questions remain: Just what is going on…
Thursday was a good day for Canada. The legalization of a banned substance far more innocuous than dozens if not hundreds of other fully legal substances or activities has now…
What a beautiful shocker! I’m thrilled this morning after last night’s win by Moonlight as the surprise Best Picture winner at the Oscars, which is now the first LGBT-themed film…
