Donald Trump: Will Chaos Lead to War?
It was the front page of the New York Post on Friday, which had to be updated in a hurry yesterday… And it's a pro-Trump paper. So you know the…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cole Eisen points out how Sears – like far too many other businesses – has deliberately depleted employees’ pension funds while extracting billions…
Scotland Gives Trump Another Slap in the Face
When I left Scotland just over a week ago, I was sorry to see the highlands disappear through my train window, as I always am.For I do love that place,…
Our poster-boy PM is the answer?
Despite the wild ravings of Rolling Stone Magazine, our Prime Minister has to whip Canada into shape before taking on the added burden of the American presidency. Donald Trump’s job…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 28: Justin Trudeau, the free world’s best hope … really?
Rolling Stone magazine is the latest American media outlet to fall under the hypnotic spell of Justin Trudeau. The Perfect Prime Minister got the full Rolling Stone cover treatment this…
The Week Donald Trump Set The White House On Fire
As the conservative author and broadcaster Charlie Sykes said, it was the week when President Pyromaniac set the White House on fire. His worst week ever. In five torrid days,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz offers a reminder that tax giveaways to the rich and the corporate sector accomplish zero – or worse – when it…
New column day
Here, on why we should be skeptical of Donald Trump’s NAFTA demands – and why it should be willing to walk away from the table if it’s not possible to…
Missing Sean Spicer.
President Donald Trump has no sense of balance. He also has very little sense of humour. We counted on his press secretary to give us that bit of fun that…
The Day Donald Trump Revealed His Inner Fuhrer
He's been rehearsing for the role for a long time, from the days when he kept a copy of Hitler's speeches on his bedside table.And yesterday Donald Drumph finally got…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 27: The right moves; Spicer quits, comics cry.
Well, that was decisive. The Wildrose and the Progressive Conservatives — the Hatfields and the McCoys of Alberta politics — agreed to a merger on Saturday. And it wasn’t even…
Donald Trump and the End Game Scenarios
They've been praying up a storm at the White House, laying their hands on Donald Trump.And begging for heavenly intervention, or at least a get-out-of-jail card.But it's going to take…
On Jason Kenney’s Progressive Conservative leadership victory: big money guys finish first (nice guys, not so much)
PHOTOS: Tory volunteers and armed guards move cash into Jason Kenney’s campaign vault. Actual Progressive Conservative bag people and security measures may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Photo … dimly…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mike Konczal responds to a pathetic attempt to drain the word “neoliberal” of all meaning (which seems to have won favour with Canadian…
Who’s congratulating Trudeau?
Stephen Harper’s PMO had a revolving door for communications people, so it is not too surprising if we do not remember one of them. This is in reference to an…
Something useful for the premiers to talk about: the right’s perpetual myth making about equalization
PHOTOS: Edmonton’s stately old Macdonald Hotel, named for the prime minister of the same name and site of Canada’s premiers’ annual summertime beanfest this week. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: Alberta…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 25: Khadr’s big payday a big pain for Trudeau
I’ve always found the Omar Khadr story infuriating. That $10 million smile. Khadr is, of course, the Canadian-born former child soldier (just 15 at the time) who was forced to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that the actual change in temperature caused by greenhouse gas emissions may be larger than…
A purchased presidency.
Is it possible to place a price on the American presidency? Can its worth even be determined? Whatever the price might be, it probably is nowhere near the damages being…
Donald Trump and the Hijacking of the Presidency
As you know today is July the Fourth, or Independence Day in the United States.But as you also know, many of our good neighbours have very little or nothing to…