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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…