Republican Rigging
Republicans have been rigging elections for decades. But, after the November mid-terms, they’re on steroids, making sure that Democrats don’t take control. E. J. Dionne writes: Not so the Republicans…
Owen Gray
Bridge Building
Robin Sears writes that the funeral for George Bush Sr. illustrated the difference between politics as bridge building and politics as a zero sum game: George Bush, Brian Mulroney, Jack…
Maladroit
One of Doug Ford’s campaign promises was to fire the CEO of Ontario Hydro. When he assumed office, he gave Mayo Schmidt his pink slip. That decisions caused a cascade…
Tolerating A Fraud
Paul Krugman has coined a phrase which really encapsulates who — or what — Donald Trump is. Krugman writes that he’s “a rebel without a clue.” Nowhere is that more…
Ruled By Thugs
Yesterday, Bonnie Lysyk — Ontario’s Auditor General — released a two volume report, detailing where she believes Ontarians aren’t getting value for their money. She handed the Ford government an…
A Reckoning Is Coming
Two years ago, Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley reached what Tom Walkom calls a classic Canadian compromise: The federal government would help Alberta Premier Rachel Notley exploit and transport bitumen…
We Seem To Be Electing Them
On Monday, Doug Ford staged a show trial. The special committee he set up to look into what he called the “cover up” on Liberal finances heard from Kathleen Wynne.…
Shareholder First Global Capitalism
Writing in this morning’s Guardian, Robert Reich explains what is behind GM’s decision to close plants in Canada and the United States. But, first, he takes a trip down memory…
Bush And Trump
No two men could be more different than George H.W. Bush and Donald J.Trump. Both were born into money, But that’s the only similarity they shared. So how, Max Boot…
Hot Air
On Thursday, the Ford Government released its environment plan — the one they claimed would be “better” than the previous Liberal government’s plan. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The premier’s climate-change…
A Dream Shattered
Caroline Mulroney’s dream is dead. Bob Hepburn writes: The dream harboured by the Ontario attorney general when she first entered elected politics in the summer of 2017 was that one…
Neither Wide Nor Deep
Amanda Simard — the sole Francphone in Doug Ford’s caucus — has left Ford Nation. It should come as no surprise. During the election campaign, Marin Regg Cohn writes, Ford…
White Degeneracy
What passes for White Supremacy these days, Keith Kahn Harris writes, is actually something quite different. It’s really white degeneracy. That degeneracy is painfully obvious in the contrast between Barack…
He Misses The Big Picture
GM is pulling out of Oshawa. And Doug Ford has rolled over. Martin Regg Cohn writes: No premier can force GM to cry uncle. But for reasons understood only by…
From Freedom To Fascism
Chris Hedges writes that neoliberalism has always been an absurd idea: Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as…
This Is War
Doug Ford’s government has declared war on the environment. It has systematically dismantled the previous government’s environmental policies. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Welcome to Ontario’s upside down world of global…
Mutiny?
A couple of weeks ago, the Ford government increased the number of seats necessary for official party status in the Ontario legislature to 12 from 10. Today, the Toronto Star…
What’s The World To Do?
Timothy Egan has been travelling California’s blackened landscape and he’s appalled: The story it tells is grim, a portent of nature altered and convulsive. It’s not just that this audacious…
Ford Is A Gift –To Trudeau
Many of us in Ontario feel nothing but contempt — visceral contempt — for Doug Ford. But Tom Walkom writes that, for Justin Trudeau, Ford is a gift that will…
An Amoral Chump
Donald Trump is a con man. But the truth is that he himself is easily conned. Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times: I really wrestle with this question:…