Ralston Saul On Trumpland
To help explain what is happening in Donald Trump’s United States, Chris Hedges has turned to John Ralston Saul. Saul believes that the United States has experienced a “corporate coup…
Owen Gray
A Bit Of A Break
I’ll be taking a break for the next few days. I must admit that recent events in the United States have disturbed me. Every time Mr. Trump claims that he…
Another Dred Scott Decision
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court approved Donald Trump’s third version of his travel ban. The Republicans refused to talk to Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. They waited until…
Just Another Banana Republic
Donald Trump rages at all those Latin American refugees flooding his country’s southern border. But the United States, Jonathan Manthorpe writes, is merely reaping what it has sown: For generations,…
Be Prepared
Michael Harris writes that the Conservative communications strategy for the next election is pretty clear. They plan to stage a full court Trumpian Press: Their goal? To portray the PM…
What Happened
Martin Regg Cohn has an interesting post mortem of the Ontario election. He concludes that, because the Liberals pulled their bacon out of the fire a couple of times, their…
Vote Trump’s Party Out
Today, in The Washington Post, George Will is writing that Americans should vote for Democrats in the November elections. And, earlier this week, another once staunch Republican — Steve Schmidt…
Conservatives’ Lack Of Imagination
The ice in Antarctica is melting much more quickly than we thought it was. Yet conservative governments across the country are wailing about carbon taxes. Paul Mason writes: Everywhere you…
Not The Sharpest
During the last election, Doug Ford made a lot of promises to Ontarians. But he never gave them a plan. David Reevely writes that Ford and Ontarians are about to…
A Moral Black Hole At The Centre
The big picture, Paul Krugman writes, is shocking and depressing: The U.S. government is, as a matter of policy, literally ripping children from the arms of their parents and putting…
A New And Better World
Thanks to Donald Trump, world alliances are being scrambled. Robin Sears writes that a new world order is appearing with each passing day: Already we have seen both Angela Merkel…
The Crunch Is Upon Us
This is an Age of Anxiety. Larry Elliott writes that it’s not hard to understand why: The past decade has seen the biggest financial crisis in a century, the biggest…
The Rest Of The World Knows That
Tony Burman writes that this past week reminded us of things we already knew about Donald Trump: We already knew that Donald Trump has a pathological infatuation for dictatorships and…
Ignorance Is On The March
If you’re looking for a clue to what life will be like in the Era of Doug Ford, Rick Salutin writes that you should keep your eye on education. That’s…
It’s About Me And The Money, Stupid !
If you thought Donald Trump wasn’t in the presidency for the money, think again. He and his family are rolling in a tsunami of profits. Jill Abramson writes: This week,…
The True Measure Of A Just Society
Justin Trudeau has made it clear that he’s working for the middle class. Ed Broadbent writes that Trudeau should be working much harder to raise the prospects of the poor:…
An Unreliable Partner
Margaret MacMillan — one of our finest minds — writes in today’s Guardian that Canadians are bewildered: “Bewilderment. Fear. Anger. Hurt. Canadians today are struggling to understand what Donald Trump…
A Meeting Of Morons
Tonda McCharles has a must read article in today’s Toronto Star. It details what went on behind the scenes at this weekend’s G7 summit. That picture leaked by Angela Merkel’s…
Short-Termism
Susan Delacourt writes that Ontario’s election highlights how short voters’ attention spans have become. After all, ghosts haunted each of the party leaders: The ironic part of the past Ontario…