Out Of The Back End
Nothing illustrates the utter hypocrisy of the Republican Party more than the tax cuts which were just passed in the United States. Republicans used to be classical economists. They officially…
Owen Gray
Is History Repeating Itself?
The federal government’s plan to deal with climate change is running into stiff head winds — partly because many Canadians don’t believe the science. Andrew Coyne writes: Fully 40 per…
Anything But Dull
Jamie Watt is a Conservative strategist — one of the gurus who guided Mike Harris’ government in Ontario. I generally don’t agree with what he has to say. But his…
Perfectly Orwellian
Elizabeth Shogren reports that a recently released report from The National Park Service in the United States has been edited to omit all references to human impacts on climate change:…
It Will Not Be Pretty
Michael Harris writes that it’s approaching high noon in B.C: This coming Saturday on Burnaby Mountain will be a little like Gary Cooper’s classic western High Noon. It will be…
Removing All Doubt
The Canadian Press reports this morning that Doug Ford’s campaign to be the premier of Ontario will not include a bus for the media: Ontario’s newly minted Progressive Conservative leader…
Unwitting Masochists
Things are coming apart in the United States. That’s been happening for quite awhile. Paul Krugman writes: This isn’t a new story, or just about politics. Things have been falling…
King And Economic Justice
We just marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. We remember him as a crusader for racial justice. But, Michael K. Honey writes, we have forgotten that he…
Their Default Position?
In the last federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals swept Atlantic Canada. Daniel Savoie writes that Maritimers’ support for Trudeau has not been reciprocated: Consider the following. For the first time…
Whether Or Not
When Fox News stalwart Laura Ingraham mocked gun control advocate David Hogg this week, Hogg did not take the insult lying down. Jennifer Rubin writes: Rather than return her juvenile…
Some Much Needed Perspective
Recently, the government announced that its “market debt” has exceeded one trillion dollars. The news was treated as a bombshell. Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page warned, “the $1 trillion…
Competing On The World Stage
Canadian Journalism is in crisis. Michael Harris writes that a simple tax change could help stabalize the situation: Canadian tax law has long provided incentives for companies to advertise in…
A Very Interesting Election
The Ontario Liberals released their election budget yesterday. And they’re making big promises. Tom Walkom writes: It cements in place Wynne’s earlier commitment to universal pharmacare by eliminating the deductibles…
Trump And Fox News
Robert Reich writes that Donald Trump is preparing for war. The war will be a war over his presidency — and possibly a hot war to boot: Trump is preparing…
Trump’s Consigliari
Last Sunday evening was a dark and Stormy night. Yesterday, Donald Trump’s spokesman announced that Trump didn’t believe a word Ms. Daniels said. But the real story isn’t about the…
A Rare And Endangered Spieces
Elizabeth May talks the talk and walks the walk. Over the weekend, she was arrested in Burnaby. Michael Harris writes: The Green Party leader was protesting Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain…
What Will We Do About Myanmar?
When the slaughter in Rwanda occured — twenty-five years ago — the nations of the Western world pleaded ignorance. Gerry Caplan writes: Many in the Western world were indeed ignorant…
Hijacking The Internet
Jonathan Freeland writes that the Cambridge Analytica story reveals that the rich and the powerful have hijacked the internet. It was not supposed to be this way: In its infancy,…
When Stupidity Marries Insanity
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced $60 billion dollars of tariffs against China. Today, China announced its own tariffs on American goods. Paul Krugman writes that, when it comes to trade, China…
A Lesson To Keep In Mind
Martin Regg Cohn has just returned from a trip to the United States. And, as Ontario heads into an election — with Doug Ford leading the parade — he asked…