Insanity Itself
Bruce Arthur writes that the pandemic has exposed our world as it is. We can no longer look at it through rose coloured glasses: The pandemic is a mirror, and…
Owen Gray
A Complete Waste
Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw all American funding for the World Health Organization and to leave the WHO altogether. The New York Times reports: President Trump threatened to permanently…
What Happens To Post Secondary Education?
Universities and colleges are facing an existential crisis. Martin Regg Cohn writes: This week, McGill University and UBC announced classes will be held online this fall. Ontario campuses have so…
The Folks We’ve Been Waiting For
In last night’s virtual graduation, Barack Obama took on Donald Trump and his administration. He did so directly and with polish, but without mentioning Trump’s name: “More than anything, this…
Still King
Stephen Harper’s ghost still haunts the Conservative Party. In fact, Michael Harris writes, it’s still driving the Tory Bus: The CPC is supposed to be doing some soul-searching in the…
Obamagate
As evidence of Donald Trump’s utter incompetence continues to pile up, he screams one word: Obamagate. Michelle Goldberg writes: Recently people on the right have started pushing a ludicrous pseudo-scandal…
Harper On The COVID Crisis
Stephen Harper has finally chimed in on our present crisis. Susan Delacourt writes: True to his convictions, born in the time of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Harper makes the…
Another Corporate Bailout
Canada has just engineered another corporate bailout. Andrew Jackson writes that, this time around, the circumstances are different: Past crises such as the global financial crisis of 2008 have seen…
COVID In Nursing Homes
In Ontario, COVID has raced through nursing homes like a wildfire. The Toronto Star has looked into the present situation. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The results from a Toronto Star…
The End Of A Cycle
We’ve been here before. That’s the lesson of Andrew Nikiforuk’s latest column in The Tyee: The coronavirus pandemic is, among other things, a tribute to human ingenuity and our relentless…
Death Of A Con Man
Maureen Dowd writes that Donald Trump has come up against something he can’t con: Now the monstrous virus has invaded the Oval Office. Both the president’s valet and a Pence…
Changing The Tide
I have been writing lately that COVID-19 provides us with an opportunity to send Ronald Reagan’s aphorism — “Government’s not the solution, it’s the problem” — to the dustbin. Glen…
Republican Cruelty
The devastation the coronavirus has wrought has come home today with the lastest unemployment statistics. The New York Times reports that, in April, Americans lost 20.5 million jobs. But Republicans…
The Writing On The Wall
Elizabeth May declared this week that “Oil is dead.” She makes a pretty convincing argument: Years before the pandemic hit, major oil giants started leaving the oil sands. Many actually…
The Third Quarter
Susan Delacourt writes that we’re entering the third quarter: Studies of people who have experienced isolation in outer space and the Arctic have apparently found that humans get testy and…
Colossal Frauds
Donald Trump is being blamed — rightly — for the debacle that is happening in the United States. But the problem, Paul Krugman writes, goes far beyond Trump. It goes…
Noble Prizes?
Yesterday, Donald Trump held a virtual town hall at the Lincoln Memorial. There, he compared himself to the man whose statue towered above him. Allyson Chiu writes in The Washington…
If We’re Wise
The coronavirus has shown us who our “essential workers” are. Robin Sears asks: What community, with any pretence of fairness or equity, deems it acceptable to pay its essential workers…
Not Just In Other Places
So you’re disgusted by the way Donald Trump treats the press? Don’t feel smug. We have the same phenomenon here in Canada. Michael Harris writes: With oil prices around zero,…
For The People?
Who do the Republicans stand with or for? Jennifer Rubin asks her readers to consider the following: Although hundreds of thousands of state and local employees — including hospital workers,…