Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has rejected pipe lines for his backyard. In doing so, the longtime Liberal hack provided fuel for a Western separation movement that pays into Confederation but gets only complaints in return.
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As the generation of the 60's passes from the scene it’s difficult to identify what seminal moment will be the Millennials’ WW II or civil-rights moment. If one believes Kendrick Lamar’s profane thesis or the wholesale takeover of the West by immigration, the moment may just be Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
Read More“Consensus science is not science. Consensus is about politics.”
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Hammering opposing speech seeks to disqualify any perspective that disagrees with the left/green/Bernie Sanders perspective.
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To understand the full agenda of Organized Climate, however, it’s necessary to travel down the progressive rabbit hole to see how their climate crusade provides cover for another pet project: population control.
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There is a condition known as Dunning Kruger effect. It states that some people are too stupid to know they’re stupid. In honour of the brave people holding back environmental destruction I’d like to propose the DiCaprio Klein effect.
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The issue of better treating the mentally ill has been revived of late in the debate over mass shootings in the U.S. Many of those incidents not politically motivated share the component of mental illness.
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Have you seen Anderson Cooper’s eyes lately? The CNN anchor is almost pleading for Trump and his poll numbers to disappear so he and his bespoke pals can go back to playing the game the way it was supposed to be played before the New York developer burst on the scene.
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Can Obama get any kind of deal in Paris to cement his legacy as America’s greatest cementer of legacies? It should be a slam dunk in a demographic where Hillary Clinton insists feeling is believing.
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The goal in daycare is harmony, not dissent. Children raised from as early as six months old in day care quickly learn the group dynamic. The physical bond of being bound together for walks or outings serves as an ample metaphor for the larger dynamic of groupthink
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...the underlying message of eastern criticism was that he was Not Us. Other. A prairie outlier in the scented salons of the Liberal Party’s traditional corridor of power.
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From every side of the political argument, we have entered the Whatever era. Keep the facts roughly within the ball park and move along.
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There are reasons aplenty for the Liberals coming from off the pace to win a majority. The NDP’s total collapse was a crucial one. The Eastern elites were able to seize power once again from the renegade westerners. But, as HBO’s John Oliver made plain, Stephen Harper was the only issue that mattered.
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There has always been political theatre. Teddy Roosevelt came back from Africa to challenge his close friend Bill Taft in 1912 when the portly Ohioan tried to dull TR’s environmental record. The Reform press ate it up.
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The latest spasm has the Tories clearly establishing a buffer between themselves and the… what?
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In a land that thinks Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, lamenting Canada’s fallen status is considered a political kill shot by the media.
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While the Americans (both left and right) are ripping themselves apart in polarity conflict and the British Labour Party has elected Trotsky in a tweed suit, Canada’s leaders are waging a pillow fight. With very comfy pillows.
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Here’s a fact: almost 99.9 percent of functioning homo sapiens agree that the climate is changing for the warmer at the moment.
Read MoreIn their unceasing demands for more and more raking the coals of the past, the TalkBots are not unlike the couple who analyze their marriage every night.
Read MoreThe scold impulse is never far from the Canadian id as we stare balefully south at the Excited States.
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