Kenny’s War
If you want a look into the near future, take a look at Alberta, where Jason Kenny is in the process of setting up a “war room.” Gillian Stewart writes:…
Owen Gray
Unless The Republicans Are Removed . . .
There is a myth going around these days in the United States. In the midst of the violence, some are claiming that both sides are equally responsible. Paul Krugman writes:…
God Help Us
Quebecers have always feared the other. That fear is understandable. As an island of French culture, Quebers have always feared being subsumed in an Anglo North America. But at times…
Our Civic Health Is In Danger
Howard Fineman has been around for a long time. He has reported and commented on American politics for decades. He grew up in Pittsburgh, in the very synagogue which was…
Trump’s Influence Creeps North
If you thought that Donald Trump’s war on the media couldn’t happen here, think again. Alex Boutilier writes in The Toronto Star: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s office has revamped its…
The Lies He Peddles
Doug Ford keeps repeating that phrase “for the people.” But this week he again made the phrase a laughing stock. He quickly cancelled Kathleen Wynne’s labour legislation which was “updated…
Much More At Stake
Yesterday, Alexander Soros, George’s son, published an op-ed in the New York Times, titled “The Hate Among Us.” He wrote: My family is no stranger to the hostilities of those…
Tyranny Or Revolution
When Chris Hedges was 10 years old, he was sent to a private boarding school for the uber rich. He was not of them. But he learned who they were.…
The Tory-Ford Feud
Last night, John Tory was elected mayor of Toronto for the second time. His real opponent was never Jennifer Keesmaat. It was Doug Ford. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Monday’s mayoral…
The Myth of Irrelevance
Andray Domise writes in The Globe and Mail, “To Kill A Mockingbird Shouldn’t Be Taught in 2018.” It’s an old argument. Some erstwhile critics claim that some works of literature…
Trump’s Advantage
Donald Trump is an awful president. But, Frank Bruni writes, in these perverse times, his sheer awfulness works to his advantage: That’s Trump’s edge over everybody. That’s his gift. He…
For The People?
This week, Doug Ford showed us how a government which has adopted the motto “for the people” operates. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The news this week that Ford has rewarded…
The Consequences Of Koshhoggi’s Death
Jamal Khashoggi’s death may be the straw that breaks the historical camel’s back. Certainly, Tony Burman writes, it has put an end to three recurring myths: First, the fantasy that…
Show Him The Money!
Lawrence Martin understands what is at Donald Trump’s core — money, plain and simple: While so much of Mr. Trump’s policymaking is helter-skelter, scattershot, spur of the moment, it’s not…
Bud Day
Today is the day that sweet smell in the air becomes legal. Truthfully, it doesn’t concern me much. I was one of those people who made it through the ’60’s…
A Big Market For Humbug
In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman takes on what he calls the “cockroach arguments” of climate change deniers. Cockroach arguments are “false claims you may think you’ve gotten rid…
Morally Vapid
The West’s reaction to the apparent death of Jamal Kashoggi has been appalling. Micheal Harris writes: For sheer, cold-blooded monstrosity, you would have to review the handiwork of Jeffrey Dahmer…
Fordian Folly
The United Nations has told all of us that we have little time to mitigate the effects of climate change. Doug Ford, however, is on a national roadshow, railing against…
Trump And State Sanctioned Ignorance
Under Donald Trump, Henry Giroux writes, the United States is becoming a full blown fascist state: The threads of a general political and ideological crisis run deep in American history,…
Harper’s Selling A Lie
Stephen Harper has written a new book in which he dons the mantle of populism. Andrew Coyne is not impressed: Well now we have it from the proverbial horse’s mouth.…