The Technology does Exist
If you are a “small c-” conservative in Canada, the argument against moving more quickly to decarbonize our economy has included many points. If you were to speak to Premier…
Canadian Politics
Jason Kenney is back on social media, and boy, does he sound cranky! So what’s up?
Jason Kenney is back! And, boy, does he sound cranky! What’s up? Once upon a time, Alberta’s first United Conservative Party premier was an industrious social media commentator – or…
Rage-Farming Trump Mimic Poilievre Scrambles to Pretend He’s Pro-Canada
The trade war that the racist and fascist felon and Putin asset Donald Trump initiated against American allies Canada and Mexico, as well as against China, Colombia, and other nations…
With an election looming as our country faces a grave threat to its survival, it’s high time for Canada to ban Twitter/X
OTTAWA – Last year, as the U.S. government debated and then followed through on banning TikTok, Republican lawmakers advanced numerous arguments against allowing a hostile foreign power to control a…
Did Donald Trump just save Canadian supply management for another generation?
OTTAWA – It’s a funny old world and it looks as if Donald Trump just saved supply management. If there’s a single thing hated with abiding passion by Canadian market…
Cultural policy has no place in trade deals – when we caved to Trump’s bullying on copyright in 2022, we lost
OTTAWA – Canada needs to put everything we gave away to the United States over the past four decades of trade negotiations back on the table! It seems like just…
Who is going to buy Alberta coal?
If you listen to Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) and the government it runs, you might have heard them talk about the economic need to mine coal on the Eastern…
The Cult Of Victimhood
H/t MoudakisIt probably hasn't escaped your notice that extreme right-wingers are never happy. They see enemies everywhere; subversion abounds. The white race is under attack, trans people are on an…
Where the hell is our head of state?
Where the hell is our head of state? I speak, of course, of His Majesty, Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Canada and His other Realms…
Brace for more bait-and-switch: Having squeezed a few concessions out of Canada, Donald Trump will soon switch to new demands
Now that Canadians have been given a one-month reprieve from President Trump’s threatened arbitrary 25-per-cent tariffs, it’s safe to assume media and politicians north of the world’s longest undefended border…
Danielle Smith declares victory in tariff imbroglio, despite her abject failure to influence Donald Trump
In the face of the abject failure of Danielle Smith’s appeasement tour of Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. last month, Alberta’s premier has declared victory with the fatuous claim the Trump…
Don’t be a Traitor to Canada
As I write this, Canadian news media are racing to cover and explain the story that the racist felon fascist president, Donald Trump, has imposed 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico,…
The foreign interference report’s great anticlimax
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue speaks to reporters after the release of the final report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa.…
Danielle Smith undermined Canada’s bargaining position in face of Trump tariffs, says former chief trade negotiator
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s refusal to sign the joint statement in which all other provincial and territorial premiers agreed to a co-ordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs…
Canada could be in stronger position than U.S. if trade war breaks out: economist Paul Krugman
Canada may find itself in a stronger position than the United States if a trade war breaks out between the two countries. Don’t take my word for that. That’s Paul…
If Danielle Smith intends to defy a national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs, she should call an election
If Alberta Premier Danielle Smith intends to defy an all-party, all-province, national consensus on how to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff threats, she should call a provincial election and get…
Danielle Smith’s ‘Pillow Talk’: All we are asking, is give oil a chance!
In what must be one of the more bizarre settings for an official news conference in Canadian political history, a cranky Alberta Premier Danielle Smith held forth on her meeting…
Should Canada be part of the United States? Maybe that’s a good question to ask Canadians
Should Canada be part of the United States? Maybe that’s a good question to ask Canadians. If Justin Trudeau has the guts and moxie to throw the gloves down on…
The NDP must fulfill Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform
Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Photo by Jeanne18/Wikimedia Commons. The Justin Trudeau era of Canadian politics is over. Accordingly, Canadians are appraising the achievements and failures of his ti...
Public Forum Roundup
Over the years, I have been a regular writer of letters to newspapers. My first one, I believe, was when I was about 13, and for the next 50 years…