As long as Donald Trump is in the White House—as long as this bigoted, belligerent bully is calling the shots—moving closer to the U.S. will be a non-starter in Canada. In his latest political makeover, the Conservative leader would do well to bear that in mind.
The prime minister is too intelligent not to realize that a lot of people in this country strongly disagree with his decision to support U.S. air strikes on Iran, which is why he has been distancing himself from both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But it should be remembered that U.S. President Donald Trump is an aberration. With a change at the White House, Canada and the United States could be besties again. History will eventually win out over histrionics.
U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t like what Mark Carney said in his speech in Davos. You can be sure that payback is coming. The key for Canadians is to be as brave as their prime minister, no matter how Trump tries to punish this country for taking the higher road.
U.S. President Donald Trump needs to disband ICE and hand over its obscene budget to local authorities. He needs to stop illegally sending the National Guard and ICE agents to police Americans. If he doesn’t, Renee Nicole Good won’t be the last chapter of America’s shame.
Donald Trump could very easily go down as the president who was the undisputed champion grifter in U.S. history, with him and his family adding billions to their wealth—despite the strict prohibitions of the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
Despite U.S. intelligence reports, Donald Trump claims Mohammed bin Salman didn’t know about Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, and that the journalist was an ‘extremely controversial’ figure. ‘Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happened,’ said Trump.
If Donald Trump has nothing to hide, if, in fact, he wanted to back up his claim that he neither participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, or even knew about it, there is a simple solution. Give the green light to release all the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Much better to support leaders like Doug Ford when they are right—and stand up to the bully.
It’s also time we dropped our anti-China bias. With a financially stressed America retreating into self-centred protectionism, it is time for Canada to assert its independence in a world of new allies and new opportunities.
If Donald Trump had laid out a detailed plan for a two-state solution, complete with deadlines, he would have richly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. There is no Nobel Ceasefire Prize.
If Trumpism proves to be a once-in-a-century aberration, the reliable friendship between Canada and the United States could come back stronger than ever.
With both the Israeli PM and the U.S. president ignoring public opinion, it’s time for a political leader in the West to tell Benjamin Netanyahu you can’t crush the rights of a million people without serious consequences. Canada should stand up.
Just because Canada is a kinder and gentler place than the U.S., and just because we mediate our differences with civil words not civil wars, it doesn’t mean we don’t know how to stand up for ourselves.
Is Pierre Poilievre the right person to lead the Conservatives out of the wilderness they’ve inhabited since former prime minister Stephen Harper’s defeat in 2015? Measured by what I call ‘the John Crosbie Rule,’ the answer is no.
Political leadership requires civility and collegiality to get things done. That is the promise of Mark Carney, compared to the Dark Ages of Donald in the U.S. Our debates, policies, and laws will be worked out in Parliament, not in court.
A few months ago, only people who were smoking the drapes would have thought a Liberal majority possible. Now, who knows?
Pierre Poilievre has been spinning his wheels in a feckless attempt to transfer the enmity he so successfully encouraged against Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney. That will be a tough sell.
How bad is U.S. President Donald Trump’s crazed trade war? Just a day after imposing illegal and punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Captain Chaos has had to revisit the issue. In just one day.
Canada can never again assume that America is our devoted friend who will look out for our interests or appreciate our friendship. It’s time to strengthen our country from within, and reach out to countries who, like us, can no longer count on a world order run by America.
A return to reasoned debate, where leaders answer each other’s points, rather than trade insults, would do a lot to restore our tired democracy.
There is, of course, a deeply human dimension to the issue at play in places like Florida and California. It is plainly traumatizing to force people to move away from the place they have either lived all their lives, or chosen to live. Spirit of place and a sense of belonging are real and powerful things. But so are the facts of climate change.
With the assassination of the political leader of Hamas in Tehran, Iran is vowing revenge against Israel. No one knows what that will look like. For now, the combatants seem to have forgotten some wise words. Seek vengeance, dig two graves.
Press independence, and therefore the quality of news the public gets, is under pressure by interfering owners almost everywhere.
No public figure should use real human misery as the backdrop for a political pitch. If he insisted on doing so, how much better it would have been if he’d stayed a night in the tent city, and talked to the people who live there. That way, he could have told them how he would improve their lives, and perhaps gain a better understanding of their problems. Using them as props to peddle his snake oil was disgraceful.
