Canadian Politics
Fifty-four Canadian Armed Forces personnel under investigation for right-wing extremism
Canadian Armed Forces Jumpmaster, Corporal Tyler Henrich assists members of the 82nd Airborne Division, as they board a Royal Canadian Air Force CC-177 Globemaster III aircraft. Photo by Sgt. Matthew…
Trump and Trudeau: brothers of another mother
Trump and Trudeau: They’re not that different, really. Sons of millionaires. Never had to worry about a hydro bill, never needed to fret about a mortgage payment. Never experienced the…
What to Read When the World is On Fire
What to Read When the World is On Fire The new wave of climate change writing BY ARNO KOPECKY ILLUSTRATION BY MARIA NGUYEN Updated 11:23, Sep. 24, 2019 | Published…
Court’s decision to turn off Alberta’s turn-off-the-taps law should surprise no one
Alberta’s so-called turn-off-the-taps law was pretty obviously unconstitutional when Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party passed it and it continued to be unconstitutional when Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party had it…
Canada’s furore over Trudeau’s racist problems is only skin deep
Justin Trudeau attends a bilateral meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government in Brussels. Photo by NATO (Flickr). Canadian premier Justin Trudeau has had to prostrate himself with groveling…
My latest: the speech Justin Trudeau should have given, but won’t
My fellow Liberals, my fellow Canadians. Last week, I spoke about the scandal that has hit my campaign. I didn’t do it right, so I’m now going to try again.…
My latest: in a campaign about nothing positive, don’t give them something negative
The land is strong. Sound familiar? Remember that? The old-timers do. It was an actual slogan that was deployed in the 1972 federal election campaign. Didn’t work out too well.…
Winding up the gun nuts: Liberals respond to Trudeau’s self-inflicted brownface crisis with a classic counterattack
Years ago, I worked with a union organizer who deployed an effective tactic when one of his unionization drives met resistance from an employer: Launch a diversionary attack from an…
Mike Smyth: As Trudeau stumbles, the fight is on in Vancouver-Granville
Former federal justice minister and current Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould embraces supporters after a rally in Vancouver on Sept. 18. JENNIFER GAUTHIER / REUTERS Michael Smyth Justin Trudeau’s personal campaign…
This Speaks To My Cynical Heart
H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post
Which is more distressing, the idiocy of our PM or the hypocrisy of our Opposition leader?
Which is more distressing, the immaturity and sheer idiocy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the nauseating hypocrisy of Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer? One of them, sad to say, is…
Well, that got everybody’s attention
And this is why we have campaigns. Team Trudeau might have started Wednesday thinking the most damaging thing to Justin Trudeau’s brand that day would be the lack of transparency…
My latest: Justin Trudeau likens black people to apes. Don’t let him get away with that.
An ape? The video is grainy. It’s blurry, and it’s hard to make out who is in it. But we don’t have to guess. The Liberal Party of Canada has…
BREAKING: shocking video of our racist Prime Minister in blackface
It’s from 2003, I’m told – more recent than the photos from last night. In it, he acts like an ape – which leaves to wonder if that’s what he…
My latest: this isn’t the face of a Prime Minister
Blackface. I’ve been writing about, and researching – and opposing – racism for more than thirty years. And make no mistake: blackface isn’t funny. It’s racist. Ask Megyn Kelly. A…
‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action…