Things Could Not Have Worked Out Better
Donald Trump is in Quebec this morning, working hard to tear the Western Alliance apart. Jonathan Chait writes: Western trade partners have attempted to reason with Trump’s demands, but the…
Owen Gray
Dark Nights — And Days — Ahead
It was a dark night. You could see it coming. But that didn’t make digesting the outcome any easier. H.L. Menken didn’t have any respect for the folks Doug Ford…
Spoiling For A Fight
Donald is coming to Canada, and he’s spoiling for a fight. Julian Borger and Ashita Kassam write in The Guardian: This year’s conclave, opening on Friday, is being referred to…
And Thereby Hangs A Tale
Robert Kennedy died fifty years ago today. It seems so long ago. 1968 was a tumultuous year in the United States. Two months before Kennedy’s death, Martin Luther King Jr.…
One Big, Happy Family
The Ontario election took yet another weird turn yesterday, when Renata Ford — Rob Ford’s widow — sued her two brothers-in-laws for $16.5 billion dollars. Kevin Donovan writes in The…
The Ghost Of King George
Michael Harris writes that the ghost of King George III stalks the White House. Soon he will float into Quebec: King George III is in the Oval Office and he’s…
Now, That Was Unexpected
Yesterday, Kathleen Wynne dropped a bombshell. She announced that she knew her party could not win the election; and she asked Ontario voters to give her party a place in…
The Uglist American Of All
That’s the title of a best selling book about Donald Trump by David Corn and Michael Isikoff. Former American Ambassador Bruce Heyman writes that Trump is playing the same game…
That’s It, Donald!
Both Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau have tried hard to establish a personal relationship with Donald Trump, their theory being that flattery would open Donald’s brain. But both men have…
NAFTA On the Rocks
During the past year, NAFTA has been encountering ill winds and rough seas. The ill winds come from the Blow Hard-in-Chief. Peter Clark writes: The Prime Minister has used his…
They Got Snookered
For years to come, the Liberal government’s purchase of Kinder-Morgan will be used in business schools to illustrate deeply flawed decision making. What the Liberals did yesterday was simply bad…
Nothing To Do With Families
The Republican Party used to style itself as the party of family values. It has now officially adopted a policy of breaking up families. Richard Wolff writes: Earlier this month,…
The Third Round
Yesterday, Ontarians watched the third and final debate. It was the best of the three encounters. Martin Regg Cohn’s observations are pretty accurate: First, despite the attempts by both the…
Richard Goodwin
Richard Goodwin died last week. I got to know who he was fifty years ago because I admired Robert Kennedy’s eloquence. It was then I discovered that Dick Goodwin was…
Boycotting The Schools
There’s a new head at the NRA. Actually, it’s an old head and it’s made of wood. Lawrence Martin writes: You might remember this lardhead from the 1980s when he…
On The Rise
Andrea Horvath’s political stock is on the rise. Tom Walkom writes: A funny thing happened on the way to the June 7 election. The voters discovered in New Democratic Party…
The Banana States of America
That’s the phrase Dana Milbank uses to describe his country. It’s not a dictatorship yet: Right now the fear of the United States going totalitarian doesn’t feel quite right. This…
Math Challenged
Over the weekend, it emerged that Ontario’s NDP had made an error when costing the party’s platform. Adam Radwanski writes: As Ontarians were settling into their long weekends, perhaps discussing…
It’s Here
Because Donald Trump is who he is — a man who operates on what Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin calls “a low information base” — the United States is…
A Fact Full Election?
Last week, Bob Rae told a crowd of distinguished dignitaries, “Facts matter. Our politics needs to understand and respect this.” Robin Sears wonders if Ontarians do understand this: Like travelling…