No Guarantee
As Chrystia Freeland tries to hammer out a new NAFTA deal, Paul Krugman writes about Donald Trump’s tariffs: Trump’s tariffs really are a big, bad deal. Their direct economic impact…
Owen Gray
Ignoring His Colours
The Ontario Court of Appeal has decided that what Doug Ford did in the middle of Toronto’s municipal election was unfair but not unconstitutional. Ford could have waited for the…
In A Box
Mitch McConnell is a shrewd and putrescent politician. But he did warn Donald Trump not to choose Brett Kavanaugh for his Supreme Court nominee. Walter Shapiro writes: Mitch McConnell sent…
Why Bother?
That’s the question facing Ontarians. With Doug Ford in office, Martin Regg Cohn writes, why bother with democracy? Why bother going through the motions of filing legal motions in court,…
Now Is Not The Time
As Parliament re-opens today, the Conservatives have vowed to turn up the heat on reaching a NAFTA deal. Michael Harris writes that Justin Trudeau would do well not to be…
We, The People, Are In Trouble
It’s about more than the not withstanding clause. As The Ford government meets in a rare Saturday session today, Martin Regg Cohn writes that this is all about our democratic…
Monumental Stupidity
Everyone is fixated on Hurricane Florence. News networks have sent reporters down to the Carolinas to ride out the storm. And they’re reporting — windblown and soaked to the skin…
Where’s Caroline?
That’s Bob Hepburn’s question in this morning’s Toronto Star: Mulroney, who was appointed as attorney general in June by Premier Doug Ford, is turning out to be a huge disappointment…
He’s Insane
We’re told that Donald Trump is beating the bushes trying to find out who “Anonymous” is. Tom Friedman writes that he, she or them are hiding in plain sight. In…
As Unfit As He Is
Yesterday, Doug Ford performed as predicted. He questioned a fundamental principle of Canadian democracy — that we are a nation of laws, not men. Carissma Mathen writes in The Globe…
Is The Man Smart Enough?
Like his predecessor, Mike Harris, Doug Ford plans to remake Ontario. And, just like Harris, he’s starting with education. He has rolled back the sex ed curriculum of the previous…
A Snap Election?
For the last couple of months, pundits have been speculating about a snap Election. Robin Sears adds to that speculation. There are, he writes, several reasons why Justin Trudeau might…
Boneheads
Yesterday, on his way to what comedian Bill Mahar calls one of his “Nuremberg Hillbillies Rallies,” Donald Trump threatened the “ruination” of Canada. Daniel Dale writes in The Toronto Star:…
It’s In the Voters’ Hands
Eugene Robinson writes this morning that Americans have known all along who Donald Trump is: We’ve all known about Trump from the beginning. We’ve known that he was entirely unfit…
In The Long Run
Chrystia Freeland is back in Washington, trying to hammer out a trade deal. That’s no small task, given the fact that — as Bob Woodward’s new book and the recent…
Ford And The Courts
Doug Ford’s caucus never questions what he says or does. But the courts do. And although he’s only been in office for four months, they are questioning the big man’s…
Not Merely Window Dressing
The Federal Court of Appeal rejected the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project because, it said, there had not been “meaningful consultation.” But what, exactly, does that mean? Don Lenihan writes: After…
Silent Hypocrisy
At John McCain’s funeral on Saturday, Americans displayed — for a brief moment — the better angels of their nature. But, David Leonhardt writes in The New York Times, for…
Barbarians In the Boardrooms
When policies fail over and over again, Jacob Bacharach writes, it’s because their real intent is succeeding. And, for the past forty years, capitalism’s real intent has been on a…