They’ll All Be Gone
Michael Harris believes that none of our national party leaders will be around for the next election: The leader most likely to go quickly is Annamie Paul. The bitter feuding…
Owen Gray
Just How Dumb?
Eugene Robinson asks an important question: How dumb can a nation get and still survive? In the United States these days, dumb is everywhere: Our elected representatives in the U.S.…
Reversal Of Fortune
As Canada, the United States and China battled over Meng Wanzhow’s extradition, her company — Huawei — underwent a reversal of fortune. David Olive writes: Huawei has always insisted that…
Johnson’s Sour Paradise
Yesterday, I wrote that some Republicans are playing dumb because it gives them a perceived political advantage — until it doesn’t. Britain has its own version of feckless Republicans. Currently,…
It Is Better
Lauren Boebert is a Republican star. She displays the loud and hypocritical stupidity which is the calling card of the modern Republican Party. Max Boot writes: Is there a purer,…
Retiring Centcom
Most Americans now see the Afghan War as a mistake. But the real mistake, Andrew Bacevich writes, goes back much further than Afghanistan. It goes back to Ronald Reagan, who…
It’s About Time
We may be on the cusp of doing something about wealth inequality in Canada. Robin Sears writes: When even thoughtful American conservative commentators like George Will muse about the need…
Insufferable Arrogance
Justin continues to step into it. On Canada’s National Day of Reconciliation, he took a holiday. Susan Delacourt writes: Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was never supposed…
It’s That Simple
Bruce Arthur has been unrelenting in his criticism of Ontario’s COVID response. Now we’re almost there he writes: The pandemic that has upended the entire damned globe can effectively end,…
The Boy’s Cheese
Things are pretty tough these days in Alberta. Dave Climenhaga writes: Brace yourselves, Alberta, for a hard circuit-breaker lockdown to rein in the province’s surging, out-of-control COVID-19 infection rate. We…
Making Faustian Bargains
Republicans are threatening to let the American government default on its debt. Paul Krugman writes: The crisis could be very severe. It’s not just that the federal government would run…
Murray Dobbin
There are some commentators who believe with Tennyson’s Ulysses that it’s “not too late to seek a newer world.” Murray Dobbin was one of them. Seth Klein and Shannon Daub…
Perhaps Transformational
The recent election may look like a nothing-burger. But, Susan Riley writes. it could be transformational: If it produces an affordable national child care program, for example—and that work is…
Lessons From The Election
Robin Sears writes that there are three lessons we should take from the Federal election: Lesson one: We need a major overhaul of Elections Canada’s recruitment, training and election readiness.…
O’Toole’s Future
The rumblings against Erin O’Toole began on the day after he failed to become prime minister. But, Chantal Hebert writes, the Conservatives should keep O’Toole as their leader: It is…
He Won!
Newsflash! The Cyber Ningas — you remember, those bozos from Florida who conducted an audit in Arizona to discover who won the American presidential election in Maricopa County — have…
Pearson On The Election
I read Glen Pearson’s commentary regularly. His take on the election is insightful: Many have delighted in telling whoever will listen that this country is moving steadily along a progressive…
There They Go Again
America’s most dysfunctional family is at it again. The Washington Post reports that: Former president Donald Trump has sued his niece, Mary L. Trump, and the New York Times over…
The Election — Some Observations
There are still lots of mail-in ballots to be counted. But, as of this morning, we are almost exactly where we were when this all started. The Liberals gained three…
Max’s Revenge
When Maxime Bernier lost the leadership of the Conservative Party by a smidgen, his supporters circulated a story that the leadership had been stolen from Bernier. Stephen Maher writes: On…