Mais, Non!
Yesterday, Quebec premier Francois Legault came to Toronto to try to convince Doug Ford to reverse his decisions to cut the position of French Language Commissioner and to kill a…
Owen Gray
We’ve Been Here Before
One definition of insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting a different result. By that measure, the current Government of Ontario is insane. Tom Walkom writes: Ontario Premier Doug…
Reading the Tea Leaves
Stanley Greenberg is a pollster who has spent his career working for Democrats. In today’s New York Times, he looks at the election results and he says that, despite everything…
It’s Personal
During the Quebec referendum in 1980, the fight between Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Rene Levesque was personal. In the next federal election, the fight between Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford…
Conservatism Rips Itself Apart
There is a cautionary tale unfolding for governments which call themselves Conservative. Maxime Bernier is staging a frontal assault on the Conservative Party of Canada. And in Britain, Theresa May’s…
Selling Well
Doug Ford’s Conservatives are ripping away at each other. And Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are engaged in the same self-flagellation. Maxime Bernier is attempting to blow up the federal Conservative Party.…
When Government is Run By A Thug
Doug Ford’s government has only been in office for five months. But already it is engulfed in scandal. Robert Benzie and Rob Ferguson report in the Toronto Star that: Chaos…
Quebec Goes Its Own Way
If Andrew Scheer was planning on making inroads in Quebec, Chantal Hebert writes, his opposition to a carbon tax has doomed his efforts: In Quebec, the anti-carbon pricing platform Scheer…
Trumpian Contempt
The President of the United States likes to trumpet his support for the military. But this past weekend, Max Boot writes, Trump showed his contempt for the military: On Saturday…
On This Remembrance Day
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the end of The Great War. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars. And it’s true that, since 1945,…
Desperate
Tom Walkom writes that Donald Trump is desperate to leave his mark: He wants to be remembered as more than just a crude blowhard with funny hair. All presidents want…
Tony’s Travails
Social Conservatives have a problem with the member from Parry Sound-Muskoka. They thought he was — sort of — on their side. Martin Patriquin writes: Never a diehard social conservative,…
How They Do It
Donald Trump thinks he won the midterm elections. He completely ignores the results in the House of Representatives and focuses on the Senate. But the number of votes for Senate…
The Morning After
Every day in the United States, millions of children place their hands over their hearts and pledge themselves to “one nation, under God, indivisable. . .” Yesterday confirmed the notion…
Comey On Americans
James Comey may have played a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump. But, when Trump fired him, he made an angry enemy of Comey, who has become one…
Tomorrow
Americans have been voting for a month. But tomorrow is the day the final count will begin. Micheal Harris writes that the choice couldn’t be more stark: A Republican vote…
Entrenching Minority Rule
If you want to know how Republicans captured the government of the United States, take a good look at what they’ve done over the last two decades. Ian Samuel writes…
Things Will Get Mean
Relations between the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario are on a downward slope. Susan Delacourt writes: While it’s more the rule than the exception to have opposing…
The Power Of Lies
As the midterm elections come to an end, Paul Krugman writes that the Republicans are spouting what has become a cascade of lies: What are Republicans lying about? As I…
When He’s Gone, What He’s Left Behind Will Still Be There
Some of live in hope that, when Donald Trump is gone, things will return to normal. That hope ignores what Chris Hedges has called a corporate coup d’etat. But Paul…