The Mighty Moron
For Donald Trump, everything is about trade. And trade is about war. The Trudeau government has had some experience with Trump on this file. Susan Delacourt writes: Canada does have…
Owen Gray
Politics At Its Core
We like to think that, in times such as these, we suspend politics and move to another planet. But David Runciman writes that, in times like these, we get to…
Cadet Bone Spurs
Donald Trump now refers to himself as a “wartime president.” That claim rings astonishingly hollow. Maureen Dowd writes: Donald Trump is trying to build a campaign message around his image…
A Crisis Of Character
Yesterday was a sobering day for Ontarians. The news was grim. Martin Regg Cohn writes: On Friday, for the first time, Ontario’s top public health experts not only predicted how…
The Weakness In Globolization
The pandemic has exposed the weak link in the theory of globalization. The theory states that those nations which can easily produce certain products should produce them, while those countries…
Back To The Centre
For the past thirty years, Canada has been decentralizing. The coronavirus has halted that trend. Our central government is now where the action is. John Ibbitson writes: Decades of decentralization…
The Coronovirus And Climate Change
The coronavirus is reminding us that it’s foolish to go to war with Mother Nature. Tom Friedman writes: As Rob Watson, one of my favorite environmental teachers, likes to remind…
Listening To Our Better Angels
Readers of this space know that I have had little good to say about Doug Ford. But Martin Regg Cohn — who also has seen little to praise in Ford’s…
Trust
At a moment like this, Trust is the coin of the realm. Last week, the Trudeau government came close to destroying that trust. Robin Sears writes: The Trudeau government should…
The Denial Zombie
Paul Krugman has been writing lately about what he calls “zombie ideas.” Climate change denial is a zombie idea. So is pandemic denial. Both are zombie cousins. Both are rooted…
When Will They Ever Learn?
Human beings are flawed. Two of our most glaring weaknesses are our collective short term memory and our inability to think long term. Alan Freeman writes: It’s unbelievable how quickly…
COVID-19 In Australia
Brigid Delaney writes that COVID-19 is ravaging Australia: By Monday an estimated 88,000 people lost their jobs in the hospitality industry alone and tried to file for unemployment. The system…
These Are The Times
Gary Mason writes that Donald Trump created the perfect storm that is now sweeping across the United States: Luciana Borio, the president’s biodefense preparedness advisor, warned that a flu pandemic…
What We Have Learned About Ourselves
The coronavirus provides us with a societal mirror in which we can see our flaws. In the United States, the flaws are glaring. Bruce Arthur writes: In the United States…
Exhibit A
Watching Donald Trump and the Republican Party deal with the COVID-19 crisis provides us with a saga of profound and utter incompetence. Paul Krugman writes: First, let’s talk about the…
We Can’t Go Home Again
Robin Sears writes that we are facing a challenging future: Now we see the emergence of heroes and misfits. Beach partygoers versus nurses working 18-hour shifts. Most media are trying…
The New Normal
For years now, the gig economy has been morphing into our new economic model. Martin Regg Cohn writes that the coronavirus has made gig workers of us all: If you…
Required Policy
Scott Clark and Peter DeVries write that we are headed for a very large deficit. But it’s manageable: It won’t be long before people will start asking about what all…
Remaking the World
The COVIG-19 pandemic is forcing the Trudeau the rebuild the Unemployment System we once had. Tom Walkom writes: In 1995, Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government effectively gutted what it by then…
A Brave New World
While he applauds the federal government’s support package, Jim Stanford writes that it should be larger — and it will have to be larger — because there are bigger shoes…