Happy New Year
As this year comes to a close, it’s clear that we will face several cascading challenges next year. They will test our character — individually and globally. Let’s hope we’re…
Owen Gray
A Dismal Response
Our political class, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, have learned nothing from COVID: Three weeks ago Omicron, a variant more transmissible than TikTok, started another global conflagration. And thanks in part to…
The Post Pandemic Economy
In retrospect, David Olive writes, our economic response to the pandemic has been pretty good: In the Great Reset of 2021, the $119-trillion global economy was guided back to near…
The Real Thing
The moral authority of organized Christianity lies in tatters. With some of that religion’s loudest adherents claiming that Donald Trump was anointed by God to re-order the world, who could…
Merry Christmas
My wife and I received our boosters yesterday. I received mine from a retired doctor. He was there to make things work. Several other retired health care workers and members…
Right Wing Fractures
Henry Olsen writes that the same fracturing happening on the American Right is happening around the world: The same fissures in the old conservative coalition that plague the GOP appear…
Our Own Nutbars
Canadians have been horrified by American politicians like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene proudly spouting unadulterated stupidity. Now one of our own has taken to Facebook to prove the…
A Winter Of Discontent
OMICRON is tearing through Ontario. Bruce Arthur writes: It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, everywhere you go. On Monday people lined up for rapid tests that ran out…
Not A Government In Waiting
The Conservative caucus is not a collection of happy campers. Althia Raj writes: The brewing tensions of the past three months, since the Conservatives’ disappointing election loss, came to a…
Nader On Trump
The outline for a fascist takeover in the United States is clear for all to see. Ralph Nader writes: Getting ready for 2024, the Georgia GOP legislature has stripped the…
Facts Don’t Matter To These Folks
The stolen election meme keeps roiling through American politics. Jesse Wegman writes: The professional vote-fraud crusaders are not in the fact business. While they pretend to care about real election…
Somewhere There Is Light
Rebecca Solnit’s new book is titled Orwell’s Roses. Dorothy Woodend writes that it is a book for our times: If you need some prickly bits of hope and thorny rationality…
A Long Way to Go
On Tuesday, Chrystia Freeland delivered a virtual fiscal update. That was a sign of the times. Heather Scoffield writes: It was ominous and telling that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland had…
A Staggering Bill
Supriya Dwivedi writes that Doug Ford’s failure to act on climate change is going to cost Ontarians big time: If you care about affordability, you should care about climate change.…
The Clear Coup
Today the House of Representatives will vote to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. Jennifer Rubin writes: Multiple pieces of evidence have emerged…
Doug Ford And Electric Vehicles
Kathleen Wynne’s government legislated a $14,000 rebate for Ontarians who purchased electric vehicles. Doug Ford wasn’t impressed. Allison Jones writes: Shortly after coming to power in 2018, Ford’s government scrapped…
Trumpism Is Here To Stay
If you were hoping that Donald Trump would go gently into that good night, take a look at a column written by Ron Filipkowski in The Washington Post: Not quite…
Manchin And the Filibuster
Greg Sargeant writes that Joe Manchin is putting democracy in danger: Manchin knows the filibuster is rendering the Senate dysfunctional. And Manchin spent many months trying to build GOP support…
We Lack The Will
David Suzuki writes that episodes of mass extinction are nothing new: The fossil record indicates five mass extinction episodes have occurred, defined by disappearance of more than 75 per cent…
Follow The Money
We’re beginning to get some idea where the money to finance the Trump insurrection came from. The Washington Post reports: Eight days before the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, a…