About this 51st state thing
President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about making Canada the 51st state apparently has his supporters in stitches. A man never short of boorish comments to entertain…
Back to the ‘30s?
I loved the movie Cabaret, one of my very favourite musicals. Who can forget the vivacious Sally Bowles merrily singing and dancing her songs in…
The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
Alberta is the pollution province. Despite a population of less than a third of Ontario, it is responsible for 70 percent more greenhouse gas emissions.…
Who should pay the piper for pollution?
“A paltry sum,” said Chandni Raina, India’s representative at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Ms. Raina was referring to…
Canada inches toward justice for the Palestinians
Canada’s attitude toward the Palestinian people could be described as hypocritical. We have consistently claimed that we support an independent Palestinian state, but then just…
The working class betrayal of Joe Biden
In a recent post I discussed how an alienating communication environment helped elect Donald Trump. A number of other factors have been accused of contributing…
Poilievre’s my way or the highway on housing
When proportional representation (PR) is presented as an alternative to our badly flawed first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system, defenders of the status quo invariably fall back…
No (Arabic) peace songs on Remembrance Day
The story as I understand it from what I read in the media goes as follows. A Palestinian teacher at Sir Robert Borden High School…
Trump tests his senators
President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…
Who or what is to blame for Trump?
How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…
The end of the republic?
Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…
Town and Country—two solitudes
When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rails against the federal Liberals as she is inclined to do, I usually find myself agreeing with the feds. This…