Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jennifer Wells reports on the CCPA’s latest study of the continually-increasing chasm between corporate executives and the rest of the workforce. But…
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The Almost Fatal Year of 2017 and the Hope of 2018
It's hard to believe. The year 2017 is finally over, and we're still here. But although just about everyone I know seems to heaving a giant sight of relief, and…
A New Year rich in political opportunity.
This political junkie is looking forward to 2018. Starting with the Ontario election in June, Quebec scheduled for October 1 and then the American mid-term elections in November, there will…
Is Donald Trump Now Too Senile To Remain In Office?
Donald Trump has been acting strangely for quite a while. Some moments he's there, some moments he isn't.But his sudden decision to grant New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt an…
The trying times of Trump.
Canada’s prime minister told Global News the other day that there is “a level of unpredictability” to the current trade talks with the Americans and Mexicans. What is really amazing…
Donald Trump and the Fatal Year of 2018
I was doing some research for a year-end post, when I came across this cartoon, and I almost fell out of my chair laughing.To think that so many people ran…
Isn’t it supposed to get easier?
With two years in office behind him, you would expect Justin Trudeau to be getting more adept at his job. He is not. This has been a year for criticisms,…
Trump may have emboldened hate in Canada, but it was already here
While many Canadians often associate the continuing rise in white supremacist hate in Canada to US President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric, the right-wing extremist movement was already “alive and well”…
New column day
Here, on how Donald Trump is just one of far too many politicians trying to undercut needed counterbalances in the media, political systems and civil society. For further reading…– Rem…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eduardo Porter examines how high-end tax cuts create gains for only the wealthy few. And Lydia DePillis points out that decades of increases…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economic Policy Institute charts how inequality and precarity are growing in the U.S. – and how that can be directly traced…
Trump trends to tyranny.
No American President in living history has earned the thoroughness of study and the resulting derision as has Donald Trump. Soon to celebrate his first year in office, he has…
Donald Trump’s Ugly and Embarrassing Christmas
I hope you enjoyed your Christmas as much as I did, or at least had a better time than the turkey Donald Trump.For he spent the holiday making an absolute…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jessica Corbett charts the U.S.’ unacceptable (and worsening) inequality. Robert Reich discusses how the Republicans’ tax scam represents a triumph for oligarchy.…
Put the Christ back in Christmas? Never mind that! Keep the marks in the market! Merry Christmas!
PHOTOS & ILLUSTRATIONS: Early opponents of the War on Shopping fight back at Christmastime (Photo: Chicago History Museum). Today consumerism is the state religion of both the United States and…
By jingo, Trump’s a xenophobe.
In an era of social media on the Internet, people are having a hard time deciding what is suitable for private conversations and what is suitable for public discussions. Nobody…
Fake News, Fake President and the FBI.
From 1924 to 1972, J. Edgar Hoover organized and controlled the federal law enforcement of the United States of America. He built a flawed and highly politicized organization into the…
The Political Instincts of a Tomcat.
Political pundits have pondered on American President Trump for quite some time now and they still cannot get him right. The reason they fail to read him and his moves…
Roy Moore and the Rise of the Resistance
As you may know, the religious fanatic, and homophobic pervert Roy Moore rode a horse to the polls on the day of his Waterloo.And the horse was not amused. This…