Harris 2.0
Doug Ford has established a special commission — headed by former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell — to look into Ontario’s finances. The auditor general took a look at those finances…
Owen Gray
How Many Are There?
The United States has entered a strange new world. Americans have never been here before because they have never had a president like this before. Michael Harris writes: In the…
Everybody Wants To Get To Heaven . . .
Hugh MacKenzie writes that we should have had an adult conversation about taxes and public services long ago. But that conversation has never happened, despite the obvious connection between the…
What Brilliance!
Capitalism is alive and well, Gerry Caplan writes, thanks to kids: I’ve been stressed worrying that all those little kids stolen by Donald Trump’s goons from their parents at the…
What’s Around The Corner
Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet yesterday. He’s getting ready for the next election and for more immediate battles. And the most pressing battle will be with Doug Ford. Susan Delacourt…
What Is At Stake
Mark Kingwell writes in The Globe And Mail that now is the time to impeach Donald Trump: Historian Simon Schama, articulating the thoughts of many, called it “Trump’s Neville Chamberlain…
American Stupidity
America is a very stupid country. That statement must be true, Dana Milbank writes in The Washington Post, because Donald Trump keeps repeating it: He offered this opinion on at…
Less Than Honourable Men
Four British Foreign Secretaries have resigned since Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Three of them, William Keegan writes, were honourable men: Carrington resigned over the way the Foreign Office had…
Getting Closer To The Fire
On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictment of 12 members of the Russian GRU for attempting to sabotage the American election. Donald Trump knew the indictments were…
Ignorance And Cold Hearts
Yesterday, Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen and Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod sparred with each other over refugees. It’s getting pretty ugly. Martin Patriquin looks…
The Simple Truth
Boris Johnson has let it be known that he admires Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has returned the compliment. William Davies writes in The New York Times: “I am increasingly…
They’ll Get Alot Nastier
John Ibbitson warns his readers that Ottawa and Queens Park are about to embark on a battle royal: One of Mr. Ford’s first acts as Premier was to scrap his…
The Ugly Truth
The next episode of the Trump Show — “Blowing Up NATO” — is being broadcast today. Donald Trump has his script. But, if the members of the alliance hang together,…
The Cost Of Rising Seas
For those who don’t live on a seacoast, rising oceans mean little — unless you put the issue in dollars and cents terms. Tim Radford, who was the science editor…
Useful Idiots
Jonathan Manthorpe understands Donald Trump. He understands that, where Trump goes, destruction follows: Trump has denounced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as “obsolete” and pointedly shied away from committing…
No More Parties?
As discussion in the public square gets uglier and uglier, Andrew Nikiforuk returns to a suggestion Simone Weil made over eighty-five years ago: It’s time to abolish political parties: Simone…
Out In The Cold
Donald Trump has made it pretty clear that he wants to do to NATO what he did to the G7 — blow it up. Trump has always been a bully;…
He Can Walk On The Water
Yesterday, Donald Trump fired his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt. Given Pruitt’s record, his dismissal should come as no surprise. What is surprising is that, just last month, Trump praised Pruitt’s…
Our Own Fool
It didn’t take long. As soon as Doug Ford got into office, he sank Ontario’s Green Energy Program. And, over the weekend, Heath Minister Christine Elliott nixed the OHIP+ program,…
Cause For Worry
Stephen Harper was in Washington on Monday. He didn’t tell the current government that he was going. And, when he left, he didn’t say a word. But, you have to…