Stunning
Ed Broadbent has the numbers on what a tax structure tilted towards the rich costs: According to a recent study in the Canadian Tax Journal, the top 1 per cent…
Owen Gray
Hot Air — That’s All
During the election campaign, Donald Trump talked tough about China. The United State, he said, “cannot continue to allow China to rape our country.” But, last week, he put on…
The Disease Behind The Anxiety
This week marked the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election. The British recently passed the first anniversary of Brexit. Jonathan Freedland writes that, on both sides of the Atlantic, progressives are…
To Bee Or Not To Bee
That, Micheal Harris writes, is the question. There simply are a lot fewer of them around: Plos One, a Europe-based Open Access multidisciplinary journal, published a stunning report this year…
The Dumber Citizens Get
It used to be an oft repeated trope that democracy could not survive without a strong public education system. The truth of that trope is now on display in the…
Wealth As A Wedge
Susan Delacourt writes that wealth is becoming a wedge issue in Canadian politics. It hasn’t yet taken over the conversation, as it has in the United States. But make no…
Trouble in Paradise
The Paradise Papers have hit the fan. Bernie Sanders understands what they are really telling us: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a statement to The Guardian, said that the papers…
Every Day Is Ground Hog Day
Last week, Julie Payette told a science conference in Ottawa, “We are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of…
A Clear And Present Danger
Donald Trump has crossed a lot of lines since he became president. But last week, Robert Reich writes, he crossed a most dangerous line: In a series of tweets Friday…
A Caucus Of Con Men
From the beginning, it’s been clear that Donald Trump is a con man. But he’s not the only one. Paul Krugman writes: I’m talking about Paul Ryan, the speaker of…
Mary, Mary, What Have You Done?
Michael Harris asks a really good question: What, exactly, is Mary Dawson doing? It’s time to either get serious about people who violate the ethical rules that govern elected officials…
You Need To Take A Shower
Two weeks before the Mueller indictments, the Trump propaganda machine began to trumpet the line that Mueller should be investigating Hillary Clinton for a uranium deal. E.J. Dionne understands the…
He Does Not Understand
Before anyone starts to agree with former prime minister Stephen Harper’s conclusion that the Liberals have been “napping on NAFTA,” Tim Harper suggests that they take a look at Stephen…
Is This Their Cause?
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s indictments, Michael Gerson has a question for Republicans: To what circle of hell are Republican officials about to consign themselves? It would be useful…
It Doesn’t Seem Obvious
Last week, Stephen Harper sent a memo to clients of his firm, Harper and Associates. The memo was titled “Napping on NAFTA.” The Toronto Sun reports that: The memo was…
What Do We Do About Them?
The advent of social media was supposed to call forth our better angels, Instead, Neal Gabler writes, it has unleashed our darker angels and made Donald Trump possible: It is…
The Age Of Conspiracy
The release of the Kennedy assassination papers revealed no smoking gun. But that will not silence the conspiracy theorists. That’s because, Jonathan Freedland writes, we live in a Conspiracy-Post Truth…
Perhaps He’s Right
I wrote yesterday that companies should be made fully liable for their employee pension plans. Tom Walkom writes that, essentially, pensions are deferred wages: Pensions are, in effect, the fruit…
It’s Time
There are several lessons to be learned from the demise of Sears Canada. Linda McQuaig writes that one of the biggest is that the legal principle of “limited liability” leaves…
Alive And Well
There was a time I foolishly thought we had outgrown racial and religious prejudice. The ascension of Donald Trump has underscored the fact that racial prejudice is alive and well.…