Jun 15, 2017
Congressional lawsuit underway, charging Trump for accepting emoluments
Nothing says "Happy Birthday, President" quite like a congressional lawsuit.
U.S. politics
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May 18, 2017  Madmen in the White House … this time it's a thing, not just a 'strategy'David J. Climenhaga Unlike 1972 when we all thought the world might end the same way because Nixon was mining Haiphong Harbour, at least this time there’s someone around who might be able to talk the president out of it. |
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May 18, 2017  Rachel Notley's tough talk on pipelines evokes the Peter Lougheed Era of energy policy confrontationDavid J. Climenhaga The "Asian premium" and "tidewater premium" for Alberta bitumen are myths spread by governments and pipeline proponents, argues earth scientist David Hughes. |
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May 12, 2017  James Comey debacle reveals a nation addicted to self-dramatization and mythI'd have fired James Comey too. The guy is delusional, grandiose and a drama queen (who does that remind you of?). The former FBI director thinks it's all about him. |
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May 11, 2017  Behind Trump's headline-grabbing chaos, the FCC is quietly dismantling media democracyWhen Donald Trump ousted FBI Director James Comey, it was more than just another of his shocking executive actions. Decades of progressive policy achievements are being quietly undone. |
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May 5, 2017  French election speaks to the pointlessness of politics under globalizationIf political acts, like voting, are meaningless under globalization, that makes some sense of the refusal by normally left voters to turn out for Hillary, leading to Trump's victory. |
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Apr 26, 2017  Donald Trump helps build the case for Rachel Notley's social license policy on energy exportsDavid J. Climenhaga Conservative Canadian politicians who crossed the border to campaign for Donald Trump should probably be thinking about what to say when the issue comes up in public. |
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Apr 20, 2017  Arkansas plans flurry of executions unprecedented in modern U.S. historyIf he gets his way, Arkansas' Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson will execute eight men in 11 days this month. On Feb. 27, he issued the death warrants for the prisoners. |
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Apr 11, 2017  It's bombs away for the U.S., againAs a rule, not long after taking office, U.S. presidents authorize overseas bombing. Donald Trump has just attacked Syria and his "global leadership" has met with approval from NATO states. |
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Mar 16, 2017  U.S. health 'reform' and the Koch-designed Republican PartyWhenever Americans start tinkering with their deeply dysfunctional health-care system, we feel the reverberations up here, as right-wing commentators seek to denigrate our system of health care. |
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Mar 7, 2017  The Trump-like hallmark of Jason Kenney's campaign: Its singular lack of ideasDavid J. Climenhaga We sat through this movie once before. Now we're watching the horrifying big-budget sequel next door. |
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Mar 2, 2017  A message to young activists in the fight against Donald TrumpOla Ojewumi has words of inspiration for those in the grassroots working to oppose Donald Trump's politics of division. |
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Feb 23, 2017  Canada had better plan for an unprecedented refugee crisis as U.S. lurches toward 'ethnic cleansing'David J. Climenhaga Canadians should be deeply concerned about stated plans by the Trump Regime in the United States to expel literally millions of U.S. residents from their country. |
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Feb 16, 2017  What you should worry about when you worry about President Trump (Hint: not where Ivanka sits!)David J. Climenhaga If you want to worry about the Trump Family, think about the fact Mr. Donald now has the firing codes to 4,000 nuclear weapons. |
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Feb 9, 2017  'They're People Not Terrorists' photo campaign challenges prejudices behind U.S. travel banToronto photographer Adam Zivo is launching a new project to counter hate and prejudice in the wake of the U.S. travel ban that targets people from seven Muslim-majority countries. |
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Jan 31, 2017  A Tale of Two Traitors: Or, does President Donald Trump even get this betrayal thing?David J. Climenhaga It sure sounds as if President Trump has confused his own government, perhaps his own wonderful self, with the United States itself -- "l'etat, c'est moi!" |
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Jan 27, 2017  Buffoon or manipulator, Trump rightfully inspires fearWhich Trump were you watching last weekend? The moronic mediocrity or the shrewd new president who dealt with an economic abyss that no one else over the past 30 years dared touch? |
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Jan 26, 2017  Canada's right doubtless dismayed as The Economist boots the U.S.A. off its list of 'full democracies'David J. Climenhaga The Economist didn't blame the decline in American democracy on Donald Trump. They blamed Donald Trump on the decline in American democracy. |
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Jan 25, 2017  Lies, truth and alternative facts: Trump's bad weekendOver the course of one weekend the press has realized the game has changed, social media killed it with savage, pointed satire and fact-checking of Trump's press secretary shredded his credibility. |
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Jan 25, 2017  Support by Rachel Notley for Donald Trump's Keystone XL Pipeline decision may be unnerving, but it's politicsDavid J. Climenhaga Get used to it. As Otto von Bismarck famously observed, politics is "the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best." |
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Jan 22, 2017  Is a Pink Revolution beginning in America? This genie will be hard to put back in its bottle!David J. Climenhaga Given the turnout at Women's Marches around the world yesterday, if Trump's presidency has sparked a movement, its signature colour will most likely be pink. |
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Jan 20, 2017  W.H. Auden's poetry resonates on Trump's inauguration dayHow did Auden (W.H.) get it so right? He died in 1973, but his lines come to mind during the 21st century's most wracked moments. |
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Jan 19, 2017 Not Rex: The coming dark age of TrumpNot Rex delivers an alternative poem in the epic style on the coming dark age of Trump. |
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Dec 30, 2016  Obama's expulsion of Russian 'spies' from the U.S. is deeply ironicDavid J. Climenhaga There are a lot of people you can blame for Donald Trump -- including the Democrats for running a candidate like Hillary Clinton. But the Russians? |
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