The wider implications of deporting Mahmoud Khalil

by Dave Redekop

The Trump Administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student, presents observers with two possible positions upon which to argue a case.  The first rests on the notion that those provided access to America follow steps to become citizens. While doing so they are expected to obey all laws […]

Trading Trudeau for Carney is not change enough

by Lee Harding

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s reign ended with a whimper, not a bang, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s seems poised to go the other way around. The question is when. While Trudeau walked out of the House of Commons with his tongue stuck out, taking his chair with him, Carney has yet to take a […]

For the sake of public decency, return the State of the Union to written form

by Dave Redekop

On Tuesday, March 4, President Donald Trump entered Congress at the invitation of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana. The Democratic leadership chose to abandon the protocol of accompanying the president into the Capitol, setting the tone for an evening of norm-breaking, political gamesmanship, and unprecedented rudeness. The viewers (I subjected myself […]

The Washington press grapples with upheaval

by Dave Redekop

For many of the entrenched Washington journalists, they may have never thought a day would come when their comfortable positions would be challenged. Pictured: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Photo Credit: Karoline Leavitt/X.  The recent announcement from Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, has set the Washington press in full panic mode. Bezos […]

Vance challenges Europe and befuddles the establishment

by Dave Redekop

How Europe manages the coming demands for change will determine the relationship it chooses to have with a new and emerging American renewal of constitutional free speech. Pictured: U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Photo Credit: JD Vance/Facebook.  U.S. Vice President JD Vance recently spoke in Europe about the dilapidated state of democracy in the Old […]

Time to worry – we’re not happy

by Catherine Swift

In nine years, Canada has fallen from fifth place to fifteenth. Photo Credit: Pexels.  The latest World Happiness Report for 2024, produced annually by the University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, contains some unfortunate news for Canada. Although our overall ranking of 15th out of the 134 countries included doesn’t look too bad, this represents […]

The story behind the Zelensky-Trump-Vance blow up

by Lee Harding

A feasible peace deal is in the works. It remains unclear if Zelensky will accept it. Pictured: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo Credit: Volodymyr Zelensky/X.  The Feb. 28 confrontation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Vice-President JD Vance, remains a polarizing topic worthy of deeper context and consideration. Many observers thought […]

Keeping calm in the Musk era

by Dave Redekop

Democrats should be taking stock of the situation and recognizing that Musk isn’t the villain they’re making him out to be. Pictured: Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. Photo Credit: Elon Musk/X.  Watching the unfolding drama in Washington between the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) audits and the panicked left wing of the Democratic Party […]

Dangerous denialism

by Janet Ecker

The TDSB is wrong to rename schools and judge historical figures by today’s woke standards. Pictured: Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute. Photo Credit: Wikipedia.  Given all the issues on their plate – budget mismanagement; deteriorating schools, poor student results, accusations of growing antisemitism within the system – one would think that Toronto District School […]

Stateside

by Catherine Swift

The past few weeks was a very interesting time to be in the United States. Photo Credit: Pexels. The last couple of weeks was an interesting time to be south of the border in the United States. This author found herself there on a family vacation that had been planned for months – long before […]