When the Doctors Disagree
The public health professionals at Queens Park and in Toronto disagree. Bruce Arthur writes: The two sides, while wasting three days, have their lawyers figuring that out. With a virus…
Owen Gray
Pope Francis Chimes In
Pope Francis is not afraid to take on the issues of his time. Last week he issued an encyclical on the problems that beset us. Catherine Pepinster writes: In this…
Believe It
Donald Trump is crashing and burning. But, as has been the truth from the beginning, Donald lives in a permanent state of denial. Jennifer Rubin writes: The national polls are…
There Comes A Time
There’s been a lot of magical thinking about COVID. The most persistent magical meme is that we’ve turned the corner. Alan Freeman writes: As we head indoors in our small…
Going Down
This week has been the worst week of Donald Trump’s presidency. Tony Burman writes: The announcement early Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive was shocking,…
Well Deserved
Donald Trump has tested positive. Frank Bruni writes that there are at least two morals to be drawn from that news: The most obvious is that the coronavirus has not…
Mewling And Puking
Like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson is a narcissist. John Crace writes: Like most narcissists, Boris Johnson is unable to conceive of other people having an independent existence. Rather, they are…
Blowing Things Up
There wasn’t a debate last night. Donald Trump blew up it up. Trump proved definitively that he is absolutely unfit for the office he holds. He was unfit when he…
It’s Here
The second COVID wave has arrived in Ontario. And things are not going well. Bruce McArthur writes: On Monday, Ontario recorded a pandemic-record 700 new COVID-19 cases, and the premier…
Is It Any Wonder?
The New York Times has published ten years of Donald Trump’s tax returns up to 2018. The Times reports that: Together with related financial documents and legal filings, the records…
It’s In the Pipeline
Robin Sears writes that universal childcare has been on Canadians’ radar for a long time: Childcare in Canada has a long and twisting history — from pre-Confederation days when informal…
Get Rid Of The Big Money
Everywhere, it seems, politics is corrupted by big money. That certainly has been the case in Ontario. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Back in 2016, after a series of columns exposing…
A Violent Holocaust
This week, early voting began in the American presidential election. Frank Bruni writes: Trump supporters descended on a polling location in Fairfax, Va., and sought to disrupt early voting there…
Hope And Fear
Canadians got a double dose yesterday. There was hope in the afternoon and fear at night. Susan Delacourt writes: Politics is always a dance between hope and fear — doubly…
Private Education?
If you wonder why so many Americans appear to know nothing, look to the failure of the nation’s public education system. Jason Kunin writes that Ontario is headed in the…
Get Mad And Get Even
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes that now is the time to take the gloves off: This is a moment to get mad and to get even. The way to…
The Throne Speech
This week, the Trudeau government will unveil its throne speech. Robin Sears writes that the event will provide all our political parties with an opportunity to press the reset button:…
Crunch Time
Mitch McConnell is hell-bent on confirming Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — despite what he did last time. Michelle Goldberg writes: Mitch McConnell certainly has no intention of abiding by…
Amiel”s Tale Of Decadence
Barbara Amiel has just published a memoir. Hadley Freeman writes that the book recounts life at the top in the glittering ’90’s: The 90s was a golden era for alpha…
Trump and Masks
Donald Trump’s rejection of masks is truly puzzling. Paul Krugman writes that their benefits are obvious. Consider what has happened in New York State and in Arizona: In New York…