I’ll miss The Bay
Radishes and Gooseberries. That was how my classmates and I referred to the great explorers and traders Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers when…
Science under threat
The new Republican regime in Washington is waging a veritable war on science. This isn’t something we are unfamiliar with in this country. Science was…
It’s the cruelty that appals
The chaos taking place in Washington reminds me of Bananas, Woody Allen’s comedy about revolution in a fictitious Latin American republic. Only it isn’t funny.…
Can we escape our nature?
In a recent New York Times article, editorial board member Farah Stockman refers to Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy as “Neanderthal realism.” She defines this…
Well said, Justin
Let us consider the ways the United States has betrayed us. First and foremost is the trashing of the trade deal, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement…
Big environmental win sans the U.S.
The U.S., under new management, has taken a remarkable U-turn. Long recognized as the “leader of the free world,” it now seems to have switched…
Adjusting to the new America
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, I despaired. The American people had elected a buffoon. I had no doubt this would do some…
Must we talk interminably about this Trump person?
Donald Trump has figured much in my posts lately. And it irks me. Why am I wasting so much of my time on a vulgar…
So much for those checks and balances
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed…
The world regresses
Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member of the British Labour Party and former cabinet minister, has…
And what about the .70 percent?
In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have agreed…