Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Trish Hennessy discusses the connection between child care deserts and child poverty, while pointing out the importance of eradicating both: While the…
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Thoughts from the road: General Motors, China and Alberta, a new landscape emerges from Monday’s dust
OTTAWA Now that the dust is settling from Monday’s announcement General Motors Corp.’s last auto assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., will soon be closed, the emerging landscape is not promising…
American capitalism betrays us.
Since 1908, when Sam McLauglin started building auto bodies in Oshawa for William Durant’s Buicks, Canada has been part of what became General Motors. Through good times and bad times,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robinson Meyer rightly criticizes the Trump administration for trying to bury a devastating national climate assessment on Black Friday. – David Leonhardt discusses…
Alberta politicians need to tread carefully when they comment on the coming job losses at GM Canada in Oshawa
We don’t yet know why General Motors Corp. has decided to walk away from its last auto-assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., which CTV reported last night the Detroit-based company will…
American Thanksgiving: How To Survive The Horror Of Trump
It's Thanksgiving Day in America. A day for our neighbours to watch the floats in the Macy's parade, or just enjoy some quality time around a dinner table.And of course,…
And a possum shall lead them.
Are you old enough to remember American Walt Kelly’s sage words: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”? And if you knew what those words meant, there is…
Donald Trump, Stephen Harper, and the Canadian Trumplings
It was quite the scene the other day. Emmanuel Macron at the Arc de Triomphe warning about the dangers of the new far-right nationalism, and accusing those who support it,…
Big Oil wants a milk break … and supply management’s foes are all over the media – except when they’re not
On Tuesday, the president of Cenovus Energy Inc., one of the Big Five players in the Alberta oilsands, called for temporary production cuts across the Canadian oil sector to push…
Donald Trump’s Scary Five Days of Fury
There was clearly something terribly wrong with Donald Trump during his recent visit to France.He seemed bitter, paranoid, angry. Afraid of everything, including the rain.It was clear that the midterm…
Underlining the ignorance of Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump is but an immature child playing at being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. The point was so perfectly positioned the other day…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Garner comments on the need to acknowledge the humanity of people living in poverty – which leads to the inescapable need to…
Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up…
Donald Trump, the Enemy Rain, and the Scary Trumpy Bear
As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump's trip to France, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, was a diplomatic catastrophe.And a PR disaster similar to the time…
Donald Trump and the Blue Wave That Just Kept Growing
I can only imagine what state Donald Trump must be in this weekend, after the way he reacted to the midterm election results.Going after and then banning CNN's Jim Acosta…
The Hoards are in the House.
Donald Trump can stop worrying about the hoards heading north in Mexico. They served their purpose during the run-up to the mid-terms. They gave him a target for his bigotry.…
Donald Trump’s Painful Crazy Day of Reckoning
Well it wasn't the giant blue wave I had been hoping for, to bury the sinister sand man Donald Trump once and for all.But it was still quite a wave,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that stagnating and even declining life expectancies and nother indications of declining social health are the result…
Will Donald Trump Win Or Lose The Midterm Elections?
I can only imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling, with the midterm elections now only a few hours away. He's been ranting and raving and spewing out bigotry, at…
The Liar Donald Trump And The Corruption Of The Cons
He's always been a liar. A firm believer in the old saying that a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.But…