A Big, Fat Nothingburger
I don’t know who did what in the SNC-Lavalin scandal that has ensnared Justin Trudeau. The question seems to be did the prime minister twist the arm of then Justice…
The Mound of Sound
Welcome to the People’s Pipeline. Would You Like a Two Billion Dollar Subsidy With That?
It’s bad enough that the Trudeau government overpaid for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline just when the boys from Texas were about to throw in the towel. It’s bad enough…
Hey, That Line’s Already Taken
I thought there was something familiar when I read that Trump’s nominee for Interior Secretary has pledged to balance energy and the environment. That’s what Justin Trudeau pledged, to balance…
The SNC-Lavalin/Wilson-Raybould/Trudeau Fracas – Who Cares?
Apparently Liberals care, or at least some of them care. The Conservatives, always looking for something, anything to distract the voting public from Chuckles the Scheer, care – a lot.…
Monbiot Sees Disaster Capitalists Gathering in the Wings of Brexit.
There’s money to be made out of chaos. That’s the whole point of disaster capitalism and those who play that game see vast potential in the UK plummeting into a…
If You Want to Understand Brexit, Think Ireland and the Rise of England.
It will take an hour of your time but, when you’re done, Fintan O’Toole will help you understand why Brexit has so bedeviled Theresa May, the British House of Commons…
What is the Green New Deal?
It’s been all over the news lately, partially digested, often spiced up with a double dose of spin, but what is the Green New Deal? Here it is, in its…
In Praise of Canada – and Justin Trudeau
This must seem odd coming from me but it would be unfair of me not to mention Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Thank God for Canada.” The…
Arms Race Update
Nukes are all the rage these days. The US and Russia just trashed the IRBM or intermediate range ballistic missile treaty inked by Reagan and Gorbachev back in the good…
Hmm, Five for Five. Is There a Message Here?
The five hottest years on record have been the last five years on record. Five for five. What’s that mean to you? NASA scientists confirmed in a report Wednesday that…
Breaking the Backs of America’s Farmers, One Bankruptcy at a Time
When Trump launched his trade wars he didn’t pay much attention to those Americans likely to become his collateral damage. Among those were America’s farmers. According to the Wall Street…
That 1.5 Degree Celsius Target? Gone by 2023.
Who can forget those halcyon days in late 2015 when Justin Trudeau and Cathy McKenna swept into the Paris climate summit, helping to set the goal of holding global warming…
Is Trump Losing His Mojo?
If, by mojo, you mean every bully’s stock in trade, the ability to instill fear in others, the answer seems to be “yes.” It’s usually a bad day for a…
Freedom House Report – Democracy in Retreat
The Washington-based rights group, Freedom House, has released its 2019 report on the global state of democracy and it’s not pretty. Democracy is again in retreat although most of us…
Why Intermediate Range Missiles Matter
Despite glasnost and all the disarmament talk since Reagan and Gorbachev inked the IRT, the world is still up to its arse in nuclear weapons. There are silo-launched ICBMs like…
Animals. They’re Nothing But Animals.
Recent revelations that the Trump administration doesn’t know how many thousand migrant children it might have separated from their parents or even where they wound up were shocking enough. But…
Canada’s Great Petro Swindle
It’s a classic con – two sets of books. There’s one set “cooked” for public consumption to mislead investors, creditors and regulators and another set of books that reveals the…
Mulcair Wades Into the Fray
A couple of days ago I argued that the Liberals and the Conservatives and, for that matter, the NDP did not deserve your vote in this year’s federal election. In…
Harris Mocks Scheer
Michael Harris deserves some sort of prize for this line: Unless Doug Ford campaigns for him in a thong, things couldn’t get worse for Andrew Scheer in the 2019 federal…
Hedges – Trump Has Trashed the Greenback
In his weekly column, Chris Hedges writes that Donald Trump has inflicted a mortal wound on the very foundation of America’s economy, the world’s acceptance of the US dollar as…