The March Of The Misinformed
Yesterday’s protest in Washington was a dud. Chris McGreal writes in The Guardian: As a protest, it was a flop. Turnout was at best half of the 700 predicted by…
Owen Gray
Someone Has To Go
When this election is over, Chantal Hebert writes, either Justin Trudeau or Erin O’Toole will have to go. In Trudeau’s case, the calculation is simple: Trudeau made the call that…
Not All Milleys
General Mark Milley is being praised these days for his efforts to restrain a clearly deranged president. But, Max Boot writes, there is no guarantee that the Chairman of the…
A Bad Mood Election
There’s a bad mood in the air. Susan Delacourt writes: This election campaign, soon to be over, has essentially been a bad mood looking for a place to land. It…
New Lies
The Republicans are trading in new lies. Dana Milbank writes: On Tuesday morning, one of the most senior and important Republican senators used one of the most prominent settings in…
More Or Less?
This election, Susan Delacourt writes, is all about change: How much do you want? More or less? It’s one of the most fundamental questions in any election campaign, but the…
Hedges on 9/11
On the anniversary of 9/11, Chris Hedges offered these thoughts: The explosions and collapse of the towers, however, were, to me, intimately familiar. I had seen it before. This was…
The Shame Of It
I was never a fan of George W. Bush. He made some terrible decisions that had far-reaching consequences. But, yesterday, in a speech in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, he spoke the unvarnished…
No Debate
I tried to listen to the English language leaders debate. I turned it off after about forty-five minutes. It wasn’t a debate. Michael Harris correctly characterizes it as “a third…
Quebec Does It Again
Justin Trudeau was pretty happy after the second French leaders debate. Then Francois Legault rained on his parade. Ian MacDonald writes: Justin Trudeau should have been feeling pretty good on…
The Worst In Us
The West Island is that part of Montreal that hugs the shores of Lac St. Louis, from Dorval to Ste. Anne de Bellevue. It used to be an Anglophone ghetto…
Erin O’Toole’s (And Jason Kenney’s) Healthcare Plan
Erin O’Toole says he’s going to reform Canadian healthcare. But, when you get into the weeds, O’Toole’s plan sounds a lot like Kenney’s policy. Gillian Steward writes: Conservative leader Erin…
Way Past Redemption
Jennifer Rubin wonders why Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are still members of the Republican Party: To recap: Kinzinger and Cheney’s party pushed the “big lie” that the election was…
Conservatives and Guns
The Conservatives were going to lift the Liberal ban on assault rifles. But now they’ve changed their minds. John Ibbitson writes: In a week that shook up the federal election…
Looney Candidates
Every election has its share of looney candidates. One such candidate is Cheryl Gallant for the Conservatives. Robin Sears writes: Conservative candidate Cheryl Gallant, is back. This year she launched…
We Never Learn
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that there are seven lessons that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan should teach us. Here are three of them: 1. Interventionistas by definition do harm. The straight-talking…
Pure Claptrap
The state of Texas has passed a blatantly unconstitutional law on abortion. And the Supreme Court has refused to do anything about it. The New York Times editorializes: The Texas…
No More Detente
Doug Ford was going to stay out of this election. But he’s now in a big way. Susan Delacourt writes: So much for the election truce between Doug Ford and…
Hard To Accept
Yesterday, Joe Biden told a lot of Americans what they don’t want to hear. Jennifer Rubin writes: As he began, he sounded pugnacious if not angry. “I was not going…
Generating Insanity
Paul Krugman writes that there’s an interesting connection between right-wing politics and the peddlers of snake oil: Right-wing extremists, and to some extent even more mainstream conservative media, rely on…