Is It Time We Recycled This?
All we have to do is change the face: British Columbia voters made Harper pay dearly in 2015. The Liberals’ support is almost entirely in the very region, the southwest…
The Mound of Sound
Ten Long Years, What Will the Next Ten Hold?
Who could have foreseen the changes our species, our civilization and our planet have undergone over just the last 10 years? It was 10 years ago that I started this…
Weasel Words For the 21st Century
Changes are overtaking us rapidly and the people we trust to safeguard us from the worst are not keeping up. The political growth industry of the moment is inventing words…
This May Sound Radical But There’s Really No Other Choice
With backward thinking governments still in the neoliberal embrace of constantly growing GDP, a different vision, one based in reality, is beginning to take hold. There’s a new economic movement,…
Now There’s a Snag. Trump May Have to Choose – His Real Estate Empire or the Presidency,
Festung Trump They’re a plainly bipartisan duo: the former chief ethics council to #43, George w. Bush, and the former chief ethics counsel to #44, Barack Obama. But they speak…
In Berlin, There’s This Sculpture…
It’s aptly named “Politicians Discussing Global Warming.” Voila: Yeah, I’m diggin’ it.
Birds of a Feather
Donald Trump and Viktor Orban – could this be America’s next presidential bromance? Hungary’s prime minister said he’ll no longer be considered a “black sheep” in the eyes of the…
Other Than Apocalypse, What’s On the Horizon, Mr. Monbiot?
Thanks, George, but confirmation bias I can do without right now. Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, wants you to think big, very big, about what is now on your plate no…
Focus on What Really Matters Most
Our government has many priorities. The prime minister has said that he wants to be known, first and foremost, as a free trader. He’s all about increasing trade, maximizing growth…
It’s Pedal to the Metal for Arctic Climate Change
You wouldn’t know it by the goingson in Ottawa or any provincial capital but, since October, climate scientists have been declaring an “emergency” in the Arctic. The Liberal government apparently…
Clinton By Two
Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump in the popular vote by more than two million and they’re still counting. If Greg Palast is right, there are millions more that were…
Remember "Snakes and Ladders"?
Well, Americans should brace themselves, for their future holds a lot more snakes and damn few ladders. I have long been convinced that the American public and, to a lesser…
When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal.
Takes you back, doesn’t it? Back to the days of Richard Milhous “Tricky Dicky” Nixon. It came up in the Frost-Nixon interviews. Flash forward to 2016. Now we have the…
The A, B, C’s of Dictatorship
Harvard prof and Foreign Policy columnist, Steven Walt, has a thoughtful essay, “10 Ways to Tell if Your President is a Dictator.“ My fears about Trump’s foreign policy have always…
Trump Will Blind NASA’s Eye on Earth
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space…
Van Jones Warning to Canada. Listen Up.
“It can find a home in your country, too, if you don’t stand up to it.” Van Jones understands the bigotry Trump has tapped across America does not respect borders.…
If There’s One Thing We Ought to Have Learned.
One thing that we have learned about Donald Trump, both from his last two years on the campaign trail and from the Trump of earlier decades, is that it takes…
When the "Indispensible Nation" Becomes Expendable.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Max Boot argues that “Trump’s ‘America First’ Is the Twilight of American Exceptionalism.” Boot’s essay begins with an extensive catalogue of the similarities between Obama’s policies…
The Smart Move – Yes, From the Trudeau Government at That.
The federal government will order 18 F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets from Boeing to bridge the gap while it awaits the next wave of new generation fighters for the Royal Canadian…