The Cuts Don’t Match The Rhetoric
In Ontario, health care is a mess. Bob Hepburn writes: As he launches a major campaign-style road show this week that will see him travel nearly 5,000 kilometres across the…
Owen Gray
John Lewis
I was 12 years old in 1960. On a Friday night, I stayed up late to watch the Pierre Berton Show. His guest that night was John Howard Griffin, the…
Follow The Money
Rona Ambrose has joined the board of JUUL. Michael Harris writes: What message does it send when a former federal health minister joins the board of an e-cigarette company, the…
Doing Their Damnedest
All over the world, the Right has gone to war against masks. Consider what has happened in Britain. Owen Jones writes in The Guardian: “A monstrous imposition!” is how our…
A Little Due Diligence
Jacques Leger writes that, at the moment, we are in a nasty place: It did not take long for the controversy to blow up. The opposition parties and the media…
Total Incompetence
COVID is racing across the United States like wildfire. The country is an international pariah. Michelle Goldberg writes: As our country plunges into a black hole of unchecked illness, death…
The Mob In Control
Roger Stone is a free man and the reasons he walks free are in plain sight. David Frum writes: Roger Stone’s best trick was always his upper-class-twit wardrobe. He seemed…
Finding A Way Forward
Jim Stanford writes that Canada’s recent employment numbers are good. But we have a long way to go: The headline growth in jobs (almost one million more Canadians were working…
Hallelujah!
Donald Trump has commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence. It is, says Stone, a sign of God’s mercy. Because, you see, Roger has come to Jesus. Howard Fineman writes in The…
It’ll Be Horrific
It’s become a depressing pattern — one ethics violation after another. Now we must process the WE controversy. Susan Delacourt writes: The newest is Trudeau’s connection to the WE charity,…
How It’s Spent
Yesterday, the federal government released its “fiscal snapshot.” Ryan Campell writes: It outlines the price tag up to now and describes how costs will evolve over the fiscal year. Headlines…
Hate — Pure And Simple
If you want to know what Donald Trump’s campaign will look and sound like, Nathan Robinson writes, consider the speech he gave at Mount Rushmore: The general thrust of Trump’s…
The New Ambassador
Bob Rae is Canada’s new ambassador to the UN. His appointment comes in the wake of Canada’s failure to gain a seat on the Security Council. Susan Delacourt writes: Bob…
The Cost Of Illiteracy
God knows, the United States has failed many times to live up to its ideals. But its great leaders understood those ideals and put them into words. Unfortunately, Donald Trump…
Simply Stupid
In 2015, Justin Trudeau promised to build a Canadian Infrastructure Bank. It was a good idea. But it has become a bad idea, thanks to a man named Larry Fink…
Genuinely Ignorant
It is surely ironic that today — July 4th — is the day Boris Johson has chosen to liberate Britons. The pub doors have swung open wide. And Britons have…
Reality Has To Hit The Road
Some people complain that Donald Trump doesn’t have a campaign message. Michelle Goldberg isn’t buying it. In fact, she writes, the message is simple and straightforward: white grievance: The president…
We’re Lucky
Another Canada Day has come and gone. Each anniversary should remind us that Confederation is a work in progress — and that we still have much work to do. But,…
Canada Day 2020
Canada Day in the Time of COVID. Tourism is the lifeblood of our town. And the tourists have arrived in groups, shoulder to shoulder. They don’t wear masks. When the…
Three In One
In the middle of a pandemic — where the United States is the epicentre of the disease — the Trump administration has once again petitioned the Supreme Court to kill…