The Disaffected Lib

It's time for Ottawa to put the Canadian people ahead of the interests of corporations. In fact, that's the indispensable key to br...

Chances are you've holidayed there. No, not Syria, Mexico. That Mexico, our NAFTA partner. Which makes it all the more troubling tha...

Has neoliberalism finally run its course? Are Western countries poised to move their political centre back to the progressive left? What...

It was sometime around mid-May that the world's population broke the 7.5 billion mark . In the 12,000 year history of civilization,...

Elon Musk has released his vision for colonizing Mars . I'm a skeptic but he does make some interesting points. Musk has plainly don...

Who can forget the glory days when Donald Trump bragged about putting the kibosh on plans by Ford to build its Focus compact cars in Me...

BC's Christy Clark had fantasies of massive tankers ferrying liquid natural gas to eager markets in Asia.  Every Alberta premier sin...

Too damned hot for planes, that's how hot. Officials at the Phoenix, Arizona airport say 40 flights have been cancelled because s...

According to a national pollution inventory, large polluters discharge millions of kilograms of toxic substances into the Canadian environ...

Theresa May plotted to enter Brexit negotiations with the E.U. full of hellfire and fury. Then she buggered up an opportunistic general ele...

The bizarre story of how Donald Trump found his personal lawyer , Jay Sekulow from Salon.com.  Last week The Washington Post dropped one...

My daughter called me for Father's Day. Kind of a lousy day - grey, windy, damp, maybe 15 degrees Celsius. That was here on Vancouver...

When is a daily newspaper not a daily? When it chooses to become something else, I suppose. Paul Godfrey's National Post  is giving ...

The Age of Trump has made some of us wonder if people are simply getting dumber. There's this inescapable, nagging feeling that peop...

It's hard to figure out who's dumber - the president of the United States or James "Ooker" Eskridge, the mayor of Tangier...

Has America taken a self-inflicted, mortal blow? Has it been brought down from within? Fareed Zakaria ponders the question that most Ameri...

An intriguing article in The Guardian  about a young man, Timothy Morton, described as the first philosopher for our new geological epoc...

After her party's disastrous performance in an unnecessary election entirely of her own choosing, Brit prime minister, Theresa May has ...

Who is buying Trump property? Who knows? Not you and not me.   A USA Today investigation finds that something has changed since the inau...

A brand, spanking new oil tanker has grounded in sand near Cornwall in the St. Lawrence. Fortunately the weather is clear and the waters...