Donald Trump’s Sad and Very Crazy Christmas
It has to be one of the most bizarre Christmas cards a president-elect has ever sent the American people. But it does tell you a lot about Donald Trump.No sense…
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The Top 10 Alberta political news stories of 2016: AlbertaPolitics.ca’s picks
PHOTOS: Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley. Below: Calgary MLA Sandra Jansen, elected as a Progressive Conservative and now a member of the NDP, Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee, and the…
What Christmas Means to Me In The Time of Trump
It's Christmas Day in Canada, and now that the shopping frenzy is over, and with snow on the ground in the place where I live, the country has never seemed…
Reprising a year of bad bets.
The regrets of a political junky can be many. After years of easy political prognostications, to be a failure and ground under the heel of a person such as Donald…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Anatole Kaletsky discusses the gross failures of market fundamentalism. And William Easterly points out that the risks to democratic governance which now seem…
Donald Trump’s Betrayal of the American Working Class
As you can imagine for many progressives in the United States this is not a very happy holiday season.More like the nightmare before and after Christmas.But the good news, or…
Ottawa’s Ghost of Christmas Future.
When Marley’s Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come came to see Canada’s Prime Minister, the ghost looked a lot like American President Elect Donald Trump. Justin Trudeau had many questions…
Merry Christmas to all! Santa is bringing presents for everyone this holiday, regardless of political orientation
PHOTOS: Merry Christmas! Your blogger with a man who can penetrate North American air defences with ease. Russian President Vladimir Putin may not appear exactly as illustrated. (Joke.) Below: Political…
Donald Trump’s Itchy Twitter Fingers and the Inauguration Debacle
The scariest thing about Donald Trump's government by Twitter is the way his mind wanders, from the important to the trivial. Or from one button to another.One moment he's pressuring…
Donald Trump’s Insane War on Wind Turbines
Of all the horrible things Donald Trump is threatening to do, and there are so many, his promise to end the war against climate change is the worst.For there is…
Donald Trump’s Sad But Predictable Inauguration Problems
Donald Trump is less than a month away from being sworn in as president and moving into the White House, but he is reportedly not happy.His Thank You Tour is…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Vincent Bevins interviews Branko Milanovic about the economic roots of the working-class revolt against neoliberalism, while pointing out that there’s nothing inevitable about…
Canada’s Conservatives have taken their greatest strength and bulldozed it to the ground: this will not end well for them
PHOTOS: Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Kellie Leitch, Chris Alexander and Brad Trost get ready for their next debate on how best to Make Canada Great Again. Actual CPC…
Why Nobody Should Ever Normalize Donald Trump
It wasn't a surprise, but it was depressing, and it was another grim milestone on the way to the darkness of Trumpland.Despite all the e-mails, the petitions, and the protests,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Danielle Martin highlights how investments in ending poverty including a basic income can improve health outcomes among other key social indicators: Far more…
Donald Trump and the Basket of Deplorables
I'm sure you all remember the day Hillary Clinton called some of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables"And I'm sure you remember how Trump howled with outrage, and managed…
Lessons From Rex Tillerson*
If Rex Tillerson, the former head of ExxonMobil and Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, taught a class on pipeline strategy Brian Jean would be stuck at the front…
Stuff Still Happens, week 50 : Why won’t this horrible year just END?
A meltdown of humanity. That vivid phrase was used this week by a UN spokesman, in reference to the final days of the battle for Aleppo. It’s not a bad…
Donald Trump and the Spectre of Treason
The only thing scarier than thinking about what Donald Trump might do to our neighbours, is thinking what he might do to the planet.Because not only is he planning to…
The Shape Of Things To Come?
The other day, I wrote a post about how NBC Nightly News was attacked by Donald Trump via his weapon of choice, Twitter, a perhaps apt mechanism given the president-elect’s…