Evidence suggests U.S. conservatives have given up on democracy — can...
Yesterday was Martinstag in Germany. I suppose if you think about it, it’s St. Martin’s Day here in Canada, too. Armistice Day 1918, how the end of World War I was told to Canadians. The occasion is...
View ArticleCanada should quit stalling to let the U.S. save face and send Meng Wanzhou...
Anyone who still imagines the Trump Administration’s partly successful effort to get Canada to seize and extradite Meng Wanzhou to the land of chaos and COVID had anything to do with “the rule of law”...
View ArticleWhy did China’s government pluck the Two Michaels from among 300,000...
Soon after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver two years ago at the behest of U.S. authorities, Chinese state security officers...
View ArticleNotice to Canadian Conservatives: de-Trumpification is coming and it’s time...
Is the United States about to embark on a program of de-Trumpification? Less than a week ago, that seemed highly improbable. In the aftermath of the startling events of the 6th, another early December...
View ArticleWith the Taliban on the cusp of controlling Afghanistan once again, we owe it...
Yesterday morning, the New York Times reported the Taliban is on the cusp of total victory in Afghanistan. The Times being the Times, of course, it didn’t put it quite that way. Former Liberal prime...
View ArticleCanada has only a few hours to play the only decent card it holds to free the...
News media reported yesterday China has announced the espionage trials of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig will go ahead swiftly this week and next, leaving official Canada with only a few hours to...
View ArticleDo we have a prime minister or a mouse? Canada doesn’t need U.S. permission...
It appears China has thrown Canada an unexpected lifeline, offering us a chance to redeem our relationship with the world’s No. 2 economy and save the Two Michaels. Is Justin Trudeau up to the...
View ArticleWhy post-Brexit, post-Imperial Britain should build Yachty McYachtface, and...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big idea to spend hundreds of millions of pounds building a new royal yacht to serve as a floating trade show venue is an excellent project for the new post-Brexit...
View ArticleThis is not a setback, it’s a rout – the war in Afghanistan is all but over...
Suddenly, the provincial capitals of Afghanistan are falling like bowling pins to the Taliban. As of yesterday, the New York Times reported, only four major cities remained in the hands of the Afghan...
View ArticleHot takes: Putin outmanoeuvres the West; Trudeau outmanoeuvres the...
Well, this has been an interesting Alberta Family Day – and it’s not even over yet. In international politics, Russia recognized the independence of two breakaway Russian-speaking provinces of eastern...
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