Did Bombardier Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water?
Two legendary names in the history of Canadian aviation – de Havilland Canada and Canadair. Between them the two powerhouses put out so many great aircraft. de Havilland developed what…
The Mound of Sound
Even the Prospect of War in the Gulf No Longer Works.
It doesn’t take much to send the price of oil soaring. Seizing a tanker raising the threat of conflict on the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf once would…
Bookends Separated Only By an Ocean?
“He is infamously cavalier about detail, bored by complexity, known to react peevishly and sometimes with a ferocious temper when frustrated or contradicted, and has a notoriously casual relationship with…
We’re Out of Time
In most of Canada we’ve had a scorchingly-good weekend, at least so I’ve been told by friends and relatives in Ontario and Quebec. In fact, most of the inhabited world…
This Is a Prime Minister Who Deserves Our Votes?
I’ll give him credit. Justin Trudeau did surface in Victoria albeit at a $300 a head seat at a party fundraiser, safely removed from those unfortunate protesters outside the venue.…
Trump Didn’t Invent This – How Non-Jewish Politicians Exploit "Anti-Semitism" for Political Purposes
Talia Lavin writes that American Jews are tired of being used by non-Jewish politicians whenever it suits them to smear others as ‘anti-Semitic’. This week, Donald Trump banged out a…
Doug Ford is So Awful…
He’s even made the pages of Al Jazeera. You would think with all the thugs Al Jazeera has to cover they wouldn’t even notice Ford. Wrong.
Burn Baby, Burn. What Trump Would Beget.
The Great Orange Whore loves to point to a snowstorm as proof that global warming is a hoax. He tends to ignore the subject entirely when America catches fire as…
The Plantation Nation
It was an odd op-ed to find in the pages of ordinarily bland Time Magazine: “Republicans Want a White Republic. They’ll Destroy America to Get It.” The GOP’s membership is…
Don’t Take This the Wrong Way
I’m not trying to guilt you out. Even by today’s standards I’ve been as much a sinner as most. A study finds that air travel is a major contributor to…
The New Chant of the Fuhrer Rallye
Last time around the deplorables chanted, “Lock her up. Lock her up.” Their target, the citizen they wanted put away, was, of course, Hillary Clinton. That was then. This is…
Don’t Tell Me Jason Kenney Had Nothing to Do With This –
I said Don’t Tell Me. Alberta has declared an outbreak of a sexually transmitted infection. A total of 1,536 cases of infectious syphilis were reported in 2018 compared to 161…
The Christianity Industry
It’s more than Bible-thumping but how much more? As a devout agnostic my project for the next month will be to explore modern hyper-Christianity through the eyes of three writers:…
Another Chilly Day.
The Tories might like to pretend global warming isn’t happening. Tell that to the folks in Nunavit. Not just Nunavit but Alert, Nunavit, the northernmost settlement in Canada. Today Nunavit…
Let’s Talk About Social Cohesion
It’s what happens when political partisans place party ahead of the public. That’s our world today. We live in a deeply fractured society by no means on the scale of…
What Trump Understands About America
Donald Trump has a shrewd understanding of America. He knows it’s not “one nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all.” He knows it’s not a country in which…
Canada Going Down America’s Rabbit Hole
A nation divided or how we have to reap what Justin sowed. For many of us staring into the abyss of deeply fractured America is chilling. Well get used to…
Taking the Environment to Heart or You Are What You Breathe
How’s your ticker? Probably it’s not as good as you imagine. The problem is – poison air. That’s especially true for those who live and work where the air is…
When You’re So Pleased With Your New Hire You Have to Wrap the Announcement In An Apology.
Elizabeth May has always been a good measure less progressive than the party rank and file, probably the inevitable result of her Mulroney years. Like her provincial cohort, Andrew Weaver,…