As Chris Hedges sees it, this election is in the bag. There's only one possible outcome. Corporatism wins, again, hands down.During the presidential election cycle, liberals display their gutlessness. Liberal…
Most of us seem to support ending the First Past The Post electoral system. Our multi-party reality means that it is possible for one party to win a hefty majority…
Young Americans are giving up on capitalism. That's the angle of an article from Foreign Policy. The report paints a grim but familiar scenario.Imagine that you’re twenty years old. You…
You just can't get much lower than to betray Canada's wounded veterans. Yet now we have Justin giving us another unwanted glimpse of his true Harperian nature.His government is doing…
I'm posting this because it illustrates the predicament we've got ourselves in and what might be entailed to get ourselves out of it. I know you don't want to read…
Is he still Lord Black of Crossharbour? Doesn't really matter. The Canada Revenue Agency has slapped a lien on Conrad Black's Toronto mansion to secure the $31-million he apparently owes…
Canada has moved up. We are now the second biggest supplier of arms to the Middle East.The most authoritive defence industry publisher, Janes, also puts Canada 6th overall in global…
How did America give birth to this sub-culture of total assholes? Case in point, Tennessee representative Andy Holt.Just days before the Orlando massacre, Holt announced a fundraiser would be held…
According to Foreign Policy's Judy Ioffe, comedian Maher and comedian Trump share the same warped Islamophobia.Speaking after “appreciating the congrats” on the Orlando shootings, Donald Trump again insisted that what…
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's remarks linking Saudi Arabia to Islamist terrorism, a possible new rebuke to Riyadh, this time from the White House.It was billed by Riyadh’s state…
The mass support shown for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump has been a measure of the powerful disaffection among the American public. Both are/were anti-establishment figures who spoke to public…
Yesterday it was CSIS egging the Canadian government on with dire warnings that Vlad Putin was mobilizing Russian forces and war could be imminent.Today comes word that the US Navy's…
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Vlad Putin is going for his guns and it could mean war is on our horizon.Fine time to tell us now that our…
It's snowing on Vancouver's north shore mountains. Snow is accumulating on Grouse, Cypress and Mt. Seymour.And British Columbians can welcome a new arrival to our coastal dolphin community. Short-beaked common…
For me, the miner's canary was a PostMedia Matthew Fisher column claiming that opting for the Boeing Super Hornet instead of Lockheed's F-35 would leave the Canadian north defenceless. I…
Such is life in a petro-state. Alberta has about 150,000 abandoned or dormant wells, many of them on farmland. The farmers didn't want them but they couldn't stop them going…
It's not the way we do things. It contradicts our economic thought. Yet the way we've done things, our economic modelling has been instrumental in helping create the environmental calamity…
This could be very awkward. Hackers, allegedly from the Russian government, are said to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and filched the database on opposition…
The Trudeau government's clumsy, ham-fisted approach to the assisted dying bill seems to be driving a wedge between the government and the public.A recent poll showed that the public don't…
