Last week, while everyone was busy looking at that nice picture of Obama and Trudeau amiably chatting it up in Little Burgundy, the government dropped […]
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Chelsea Manning Walks Free
Chelsea Manning, the American soldier jailed in 2010 for leaking information to Wikileaks, is finally free after serving seven years out of her 35 years […]
A Look at the Three Amigos Summit
The three North-American leaders are meeting this week in Ottawa for the Three Amigos Summit. It’s the first summit in almost three years, and the […]
Favourite Meals of the US Presidential Candidates Both Real and Imagined
What do the 2016 US Presidential candidates eat? What do their gastronomic ways say about their presidential personality? Though it only lasted five months, our […]
Garlanding the Bench: Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee vs. The Senate
On Wednesday March 16, 2016, Barack Obama named Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS). The nomination came […]
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 […]
Why America May Actually Get to #feelthebern
President Bernie Sanders. Something that a few months ago only seemed possible to progressives sitting around in a bar after a few pints. Everyone else […]
Forget the schoolyard when you think of Syria
I admit it, I don’t know enough about the conflict in Syria to be able to come up with a solution. Neither does Barack Obama. […]
Syria’s Conflict: The fog of chemical war
In Washington and Ottawa, signs of political unwillingness and inaction for Syrian intervention are beginning to show. All signs suggest a concerted misleading effort to […]
State of the Union 2013: A largely bi-partisan speech with an emotional ending
Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. After the familiar introduction, Congress and the American people got a dose of how President Barack Obama intends to govern over the next four years…