Is Trudeau ready for a Middle East war?
Photo by Women Deliver 2019 The world is now at the mercy of a coalition of three of the most dangerous autocrats on the planet: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and…
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As B.C. Election Approaches, Greens Get Cozy With Liberals
From left, B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark, Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Leader John Horgan • Photo by B.C. Broadcast Consortium Is the Green Party in a tacit…
Trudeau runs risk keeping flawed politician as foreign affairs minister
The irrational has begun to dominate our politics as if the American virus has stealthily moved north to infect our national narratives. It reflects itself in various ways but it…
NAFTA Kills: Who will Speak for the Working Class?
Photo by Ben Goff A recent report out of the US raises questions about politicians’ (in Canada and the US) obsession with the state of the middle class and highlights…
EKOS poll: Canada should support Israeli sanctions, not demonize them
Photo by the McGill Daily Foreign policy is one of those areas of democratic governance that doesn’t often get on the public’s radar. But when it does it provides citizens…
The Liberal addiction to the Washington Consensus
Peter Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung/CagleCartoons.com Justin Trudeau makes no secret of the fact that he supports “free trade” — that euphemism for cor- porate-rights agreements. He has declared the Lib- eral…
Faith in Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling
Photo from Public Domain At the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, full page ads promised the deal would bring “more jobs, better…
NDP Now Has Chance to End 13 Years of Error
Photo by Jonathan Allard In the aftermath of Tom Mulcair’s crushing repudiation at the NDP convention, the party is entering a period of self-reflection and reinvention that it has never…
If Mulcair Survives Next Week’s Review, the NDP Is Doomed
Cartoon by Greg Perry Can the NDP see the writing on the wall? More than 1,500 delegates will be heading to the federal NDP’s Edmonton convention next Friday. Do they…
Liberals’ shameful BDS stand gives carte blanche to Israel
Photo by David Shankbone Here’s a Middle East multiple choice question for you (warning: one of these will get you condemned by the government of Justin Trudeau). Would you rather…
Trade Minister Needs to Break Out of Bureaucrat’s Bubble on TPP
Photo by DonkeyHotey Are Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland’s officials misleading her about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Freeland signed the agreement Thursday in New Zealand, but repeated her assu...
On TPP, Trudeau Must Think Like a Keynesian
Photo by Alex Guibord Place your bets. Will Justin Trudeau and his economic advisors choose a neo-Keynesian approach to the growing economic disaster facing the country or will it stick…
Does Justin Trudeau Want Fair Elections or Not?
Photo by vl04 Prime Minster Justin Trudeau’s election pledge (and subsequent confirmation) that Canada will not have another election under first-past-the-post has morphed into a growing controversy. Trude...
‘Canada Is Back?’ Not Until Taxation Is Truly Fair
Photo by Alex Guibord Justin Trudeau is fond of saying “Canada is back,” and in some genuinely gratifying ways it seems to be the case. But by far the most…
Pacific Trade Deal Will Test Trudeau’s Resolve
Photo by Day Donaldson Justin Trudeau has proven to be much more bold in his first couple of weeks than almost anyone imagined. Unlike Jean Chrétien and his 1993 election…
The Greens: A party that plays politics just like the others
Photo by ItzaFineDay After a visit by the Green Party’s Elizabeth May to Powell River on July 31, she was quoted in the local newspaper: “There is no chance of…
We Are All (or Should Be) Greeks Now
Photo by Bob Dass The temple of neo-liberalism and its ideology of social suicide in the interests of the banks has been breached. The hysteria in European capitals (particularly Germany)…
Can You Trust Justin Trudeau?
Cartoon by Greg Perry Here we go again – the Red Book 3.0. Yet another build-up of Liberal election promises just like the ones we’ve seen before (though I admit…
Canadian Medicare and the Retirement Conundrum
Photo by Christine Singh Powell River, British Columbia – There’s been lots of attention paid recently to the Canada Pension Plan and how to extend it, and news stories and…
Why is the West Spoiling for a Fight with Russia?
Photo by Kremlin.ru What are the consequences when elected governments make policy based on faith and imperial hubris instead of science and expertise? It’s a question that is forcing itself…