Guilty. It Couldn’t Be Clearer
Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released its report into Donald Trump’s shenanigans in Ukraine. Senator Richard Blumenthal — a former federal prosecutor — writes that Trump was bribing the Ukraine.…
Owen Gray
So What Was That All About?
Yesterday, Canada’s premiers gathered in Mississauga. Martin Regg Cohn writes: For a moment in time Monday, Canada’s premiers all pledged fealty to national unity. No more disunity, not until further…
Trudeau’s Future
Chantal Hebert writes that the future of the Trudeau government may well rest on what it decides to do about climate change: The makeup of this Parliament should translate into…
Klein Redux
If you want to know where Alberta is headed, take a look at the speech Jason Kenney delivered to the United Conservative Party faithful in Calgary. Sarah Rieger reports: Alberta…
Follow The Money
Paul Krugman writes that the Republican Party, officially known as the GOP — The Grand Old Party — is actually the COP — The Corrupt Old Party: The G.O.P. is…
The Kiss Of Death
The knives are out for Andrew Scheer. When you lose an election, the people who worked for or with you get snitty. And there’s lots of snit coming Scheer’s way…
Missing The Alarm Bells
Yesterday, the United Nations issued yet another dire warning. Tom Walkom writes: The report makes for grim reading. Scientists reckon that if Earth is to avoid global catastrophe, the temperature…
Learning On The Job
Doug Ford has made a big U Turn. Tom Walkom writes that Ford began his term in office by going to war with Ottawa: He launched an all-out war against…
The British Morass
If you think our election was a horror show, Robin Sears writes that you should pay attention to what’s happening in Britain these days: This week the Conservatives were threatened…
Better Metrics
Joe Stiglitz writes that we are facing three crises: The world is facing three existential crises: a climate crisis, an inequality crisis and a crisis in democracy. Will we be…
He Used To Be A Fed
Jason Kenney has been railing against the federal government’s equalization program. He claims that Alberta has been short changed and that Quebec is a provincial welfare bum. But he neglects…
A New Scenario?
A month is a long time in politics. And, Susan Delacout writes, the past month has made a difference in Ontario’s politics: Trudeau and Ford will be having what’s widely…
Smoking Guns
Yesterday, there were all kinds of smoking guns in Gordon Sondland’s testimony. He exploded all the Republican defences of Donald Trump. Max Boot writes: “Was there a ‘quid pro quo’?”…
Kenney’s Independence
Jason Kenney has been talking Alberta’s independence. He’s been suggesting Alberta take Quebec’s approach to federalism. But that approach has evolved. Chantal Hebert writes: Quebec has operated its own system…
Trudeau’s Opportunity
Some commentators claim that Justin Trudeau is in a precarious position. Tom Walkom isn’t among them. Trudeau, he writes, has an extraordinary opportunity: “In a strange way, the makeup of…
Its Achilles Heel
Doug Ford is setting himself up for failure. He’s looking at province wide teachers’ strikes because he has failed to learn the lessons of recent history. Martin Regg Cohn writes:…
We’re In Deep
UBC economist William Rees argues that we are — in George Bush Sr.’s memorable phrase — “in deep do do:” We can probably agree that techno-industrial societies are utterly dependent…
Democracy In Peril
These are momentous days in Washington. People are consumed by the fate of Donald Trump. But, Tony Burman writes, there is much more at stake than The Orange One’s future:…
The March Continues
The United States and Britain have been involved in wars for twenty years. Simon Jenkins asks a simple question: Why? After all, the results have not been not encouraging: The…