Guest Post: The Deadly Embrace Of Trump
Here is the latest from The Mound of Sound. Thanks, Mound:When will Americans come to their senses? When the pandemic hit, Trump gave false assurances that there was nothing to…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of September 21, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 21, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 21, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of November…
Public ownership and booze: Raise a glass to the LCBO
Photo by Dillan Payne/Flickr One of Canada’s most successful and popular publicly-owned corporations is about to be dismantled and possibly privatized. The LCBO, the Liquor Control Board o...
UCP voters’ list change shows ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of scrutineers’ role in democracy, former elections official says
The United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a…
Sunday Funday: Trade War Dispatches, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
Dispatches from the Canada-US Trade War I believe Shannon Proudfoot must have been living in my kitchen for the past month: ...There was another one-liner making the rounds about the…
‘Holding back tears,’ Danielle Smith spins an ‘emotional’ tall tale about the poor little rich kid of Confederation
According to a news account by The Canadian Press that will be read across the Dominion, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith delivered an emotional appeal to Albertans to remain in Canada…
Useless Chris Moise needs to go, I’m voting for Curran Stikuts in Toronto Centre municipal election
Useless Chris Moise needs to go, I’m voting for Curran Stikuts in Toronto Centre municipal election by Matthew GuerinMoise clearly doesn’t care about building community, not sure why he’s in…
Name the ‘President’ (suggestions welcome!)
Recently... the president floated alternative names for AI — pitching “Superior Intelligence,” “Extreme Intelligence” and “Supreme Intelligence.” He then asked his followers to vote on “which is the best name…
Thinking of My Obituary
I'm getting old enough now that thinking about what I want my obituary to say is not some vague hypothetical but instead is something visible on the horizon. So asking…
Saturday Photo: The Bones of the Earth
This is what you go through when you take Montreal's REM trains, the Réseau express métropolitain. Well, you don't magically find yourself transported through solid rock, but you do travel…
Trust, But Verify
In these troubled times, when existential threats force Canada to undertake bold, new initiatives, it is sometimes difficult to fully exercise our critical thinking skills. We have a prime minister…
Canada-EU: Poilievre Would Burn It All For Trump
It is not entirely clear what being an ‘associate’ member of the European Union would mean in real terms, but I would much rather see Canada as a peer nation…
Finishing the week: Comments about the Gathering Storm, plus more Trade War Dispatches
About the Gathering StormEveryone is still talking about Carney's trip to the European Parliament, but we're also starting to move on toward what will likely be a more fractious fall…
Paul Wells interviews Bob Rae and Alex Himelfarb on their recent books on Canadian sovereignty, democracy and our place in the world
I am very grateful to Paul for reconnecting me with Bob Rae to discuss our respective books. Bob is great and so are the thinkers and writers he convened on…
No, old folks don’t always vote Conservative
Old folks vote reliably Conservative, right? Well, they often do but not reliably. At least... The post No, old folks don’t always vote Conservative first appeared on Views from the…
Neoliberalism, crises, solidarity and a film festival
Back in May 2025 I was delighted to have my article “Neoliberalism, crises, and solidarity: Hot Docs in focus” published with the European Journal of Media Studies – NECSUS as…
Today’s News: Save us Big Daddy! plus more Signs of the Apocalypse and Trade War Dispatches
Cartoon by Theo Moudakis Remember during the April 2025 campaign, when someone at a Mark Carney event called out "Lead us Big Daddy!" and Carney laughed. Well, I've thought of…
Taxpayers are invariably hosed
I don’t know why private industry should object to government involvement in megaprojects. Eventually, and inevitably, taxpayers get hosed, while the world's wealthiest citizens grow even wealthier. Governments spend billions…