Ten Ways to Fix American Democracy
American democracy (such as it is) suffered a blow last month with the election of clownish demagogue Donald Trump. But that is no reason to wallow in despair. A country’s…
Joe Biden
A House Divided
That America has become a house divided is so obvious it hardly needs stating. That Don Trump has played a major role in cultivating and growing that division should also…
What If The Next President Of The United States Is Not Mentally Competent For Office ?
My surprising take on that is that it won’t make much difference. Many experts are already suggesting Trump is verging on dementia and his rambling nonsense seems to confirm that.…
Two old men meet, and the world weeps
On Thursday night, the first United States presidential debate will air on CNN (for those of you who do not subscribe to CNN, you can see it on CTV News…
Better Than His Predecessor
As time passes, the contrast between Joe Biden and Donald Trump gets starker. Jennifer Rubin writes: In the first two weeks of the new Congress, MAGA extremists have neutered House…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Carly Weeks reports on the work being done to begin to understand and treat long COVID, while Erika Edwards reports on the profiteers…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Toby Sanger points out how Canada could gain tens of billions of dollars annually by working with Joe Biden to apply a global…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kendall Latimer reports that epidemiologists are calling for far stronger public health measures as COVID variants have become the dominant strain –…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rita Trichur writes that an attempt to boost the economy solely through monetary policy will predictably lead to even worse inequality – meaning…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Leffme interviews Jake Lytle about the movement to unionize marijuana-related work in Chicago. And Jay Greene and Eli Rosernberg report on an…
Biden is ahead of Trudeau on climate.
Hey Joe, what did you think of the hypocrisy you got from Trudeau during your virtual summit on Tuesday? One of the first items of business when you became U.S.…
Is it cruel to fool O’Toole?
Is finance minister Chrystia Freeland deliberately fooling conservative leader Erin O’Toole? It seems like she has more important tasks ahead of her. Maybe she is forging ahead with her plans…
Trudeau’s chance to kill TransMountain!
It’s no secret. If U.S. president Joe Biden can cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, why cannot Justin Trudeau cancel twinning of the TransMountain pipeline? The single line can still be…
How much of the pipe that was supposedly ready to build Keystone XL is fit only for scrap?
Alberta is unlikely to recoup much of its $1.5-billion loss on the Keystone XL Pipeline by selling off unused pipe now that the Biden Administration has pulled the plug on…
America, we hardly knew ya!
While some desperate Canadians still manage to flee south to escape our bitter winters, we have not been seeing Americans breaching our locked-down borders in any large numbers. American tourists…
Expense claims show MLA who rarely visits his own riding spent almost every day in Edmonton for four months last year
Lots of Pat Rehn’s constituents may think the Lesser Slave Lake MLA is about as helpful as a screen door on a submarine, but it turns out the fellow’s been…
Alberta premier piously pleads for restoration of order in Washington, smooth ascension of Joe Biden to U.S. presidency
“Alberta has always had close ties to the United States, so it’s painful to watch the bizarre scenes unfolding at the U.S. Capitol,” Jason Kenney lamented yesterday, presumably tweeting from…
Jason Kenney’s ineffective COVID-19 strategy mirrors his failing response to world demand for cleaner energy
Memo to United Conservative Party issues managers: Your boss will need to take some time today away from defending his COVID-19 response to attack the New York State pension fund…