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Category: Politics
Watch What You Wish For: How the GOP’s Scalia Gamble May Blow Up in Their Face
It wasn’t long after news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing hit social media on Saturday that we got an idea of what the […]
Scouting for SCOTUS: The Battle to Replace Antonin Scalia
On February 13, 2016 Antonin Scalia, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) died. He was 79. Instead of reacting with sympathy […]
Powerful New Bernie Sanders Ad Focuses on Erica Garner and Black Lives Matter
During the first Democratic Debate a few months ago, all the candidates were asked a rather simple question: “Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter?” […]
The Universal Guaranteed Minimum Income Mirage
Guaranteed Minimum Income is always a sweet spot for “progressives” and left-wingers throughout the world. Its mere enunciation rings like poetic justice to the ears […]
Socialism in America: What Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Success Means for Canada and the World
As the news set in over Iowa yesterday, flashbacks of Monday night’s Democratic and Republican primaries were playing on loop on every TV screen in the state. The […]
Like Marinating Fish in the Pan: Savouring the Essence of the US Presidential Primaries
Thanks to the confluence of fracturing geopolitics and disenchantment with all things Capital, the blizzardy state of Iowa is something of a hot treat for us Canucks. We’ve […]
What a Donald Trump Event in Burlington Tells Us That the DNC Won’t
Last night, Donald Trump took his travelling Muslim-bashing, racist-baiting, headline-grabbing roadshow to a place that few probably expected it would go: the Flynn Center in […]
The Legal Side of Canada’s Spanking Debate
In the old days “spare the rod and spoil the child” was considered an adequate parenting technique. It was based on the notion that not […]
The Politics of Suffering: The Euthanasia Debate in Canada
UPDATE: The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled today that Bill 52 can go ahead In 2013, Bill 52 – An Act respecting end-of-life care was […]