If It’s Intrigue You Want, Ottawa Is Still Small Potatoes.
Rumours abound of plots to topple Justin Trudeau and pluck some successor out of the ashes of an engulfed Liberal party in time to fight this fall’s general election. Relax,…
Rumours abound of plots to topple Justin Trudeau and pluck some successor out of the ashes of an engulfed Liberal party in time to fight this fall’s general election. Relax,…
It has long been my belief that the deeply divided societies that have become standard fare across the West were cultivated. We didn’t get into two camps inadvertently. We’ve been…
A team of researchers went to social media to assess how we’re responding to climate change. Their findings have just been published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy…
Full disclosure: the only reason the SNC-Lavalin scandal matters to me is that it might clear a path for Andrew Scheer’s Tories to win the October general elections. That’s it.…
A new report in Nature Climate Change warns that heat waves are sweeping the oceans causing a die off of sea grasses, kelp and corals, leading to a dangerous loss…
The Toronto Star editorial board has a message for Justin. Only the prime minister can now stop the bleeding and he has a lot of catching up to do. It…
The April Macleans cover. It’s going to make that trip to the grocery store a bit of an ordeal for Liberal faithful, especially Justin’s acolytes. I read Paul Wells takedown…
Do you think Justin made a mistake when he went for that gender-balanced cabinet? So far he’s had two prominent cabinet ministers resign, Jody Wilson-Raybould and now Jane Philpott. You…
Jane Philpott has had enough with the prime minister’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair. The Treasury Board President has resigned from cabinet. “I have been considering the events that have…
Venezuela. SNC-Lavalin. Those are just two issues on which opinion is deeply divided to the point where the force of partisanship is inescapable. In my case I end up sitting…
Machiavelli would have understood that we’ve trapped ourselves.
News cameras devoured footage of Chris Hasson’s arsenal – assault rifles, shotguns, pistols, a sniper rifle, ammo boxes stuffed with rounds and a manifesto of those he was out to…
I’ve never been a fan of the idea of enfranchising younger people – until I realized the arguments against it are bollocks. We’ve gone along with this notion that until…
Just the name “LavScam” rekindles memories of Liberal scandals past, especially the AdScam or Sponsorship Scandal that condemned the Liberal Party to wander in the desert, unloved, unwanted for a…
“The misuse of public procurement processes in the construction industry, the manipulation of the rules governing the financing of political parties and the infiltration of the industry by organized crime…
Ottawa U. Faculty of Law dean, Adam Dodek, hits the nail squarely on the head – it’s nigh impossible and fraught with conflicts to appoint one person to serve as…
You can’t have an over-populated, resource depleted world ravaged by climate change, under the heel of late-stage neoliberalism and not expect destabilization and people eager to exploit confusion, dislocation and…
Trudeau’s recently departed principal secretary, Gerald Butts, reportedly is asking for a chance to appear before the Commons Justice Committee.
I knew, almost from the outset, that there was something deeply wrong with the government of Justin Trudeau. The freshly-minted prime minister, perhaps in a moment of hubris, chose to…
The Trudeau brand has taken a few hits since Justin became prime minister but this latest fiasco involving ex-Justice Minister Jody is an ugly, possibly even indelible stain on that…