In recent years I have developed the practice of voting NDP provincially and Liberal federally. The federal choice arises largely from the Liberal candidate being…

Donald Trump and his MAGA colleagues have decided to do more than abandon America’s fight against climate change, more than formalize climate denial as the…

Back in days long past, in a place called Camelot, John F. Kennedy ruled as president. Kennedy was noted for wanting to have bright people…

Quite a few years ago I spent three years working for a major oil company in Houston, Texas. I enjoyed Texas and I enjoyed Texans,…

U.S. President Donald Trump is a great admirer of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Indeed, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon described Orbán as “Trump before…

The federal Conservatives’ fealty to Pierre Poilievre is puzzling to some. The man never caught on with Canadians, never achieving a decent popularity even when…

So, an American pope. A first. Now both the world’s most powerful political leader and the world’s most powerful religious leader are both Yankees. Fortunately,…

“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule…

According to the The Canadian Psychiatric Association there is narcissism, and then there is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a mental disorder or illness. The Diagnostic…

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.…

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…

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…