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A packed Verona Arena couldn’t save a Closing Ceremony athletes didn’t want. Team USA men’s hockey gold came by Milano Cortina robbery, not Miracle-on-Ice magic. Johannes Klæbo became the Winter Games GOAT. Eileen Gu delivered drama. China collapsed. For all its flaws, though, Milano Cortina 2026 delivered the Games the Olympics are supposed to be.… Read more.
America First is fast becoming America Alone. Trump is now reducing trade negotiations to mailed tariff ultimatums. iPINIONS argues that it’s time for Canada to lead the world in calling a timeout on America… until there’s a new, adult administration in the White House. Read my take on Substack: Canada should lead the world… Read more.
[Author’s Note: This commentary was originally published on March 31, 2005. Sadly, 20 years later, the more things have changed elsewhere, the more they’ve stayed the same in Haiti. So I’ve updated it… with a few new facts and, alas, the same old misery and hypocrisy.] Haitian migrants aren’t causing a crisis so much as… Read more.
Trump has trademarked creating conflicts to solve Trump wasted no time after returning to the White House, reigniting his favorite diplomatic farce: manufacturing crises just to claim credit for solving them. Barely two weeks in, he threatened trade wars with Canada and Mexico, the likes of which the world had never seen. His demand? That… Read more.
Canada’s aboriginal sin America has been reckoning with the legacy of its “original sin” for centuries. This reckoning has been notorious – and often deadly. But it might surprise many to learn that Canada has been reckoning with the legacy of its “aboriginal sin” for just as long. This reckoning, however, has been tame and relatively suppressed. Indeed, it’s easy to… Read more.
Like America, Canada has mistreated indigenous peoples. The difference is that we know little about Canada’s aboriginal shame. But its indigenous peoples are now forcing a public reckoning. Canada’s indigenous peoples The BBC aired a documentary yesterday on Canada’s (mis)treatment of Canadian Indians. It was heartrending. Poverty and unemployment remain disproportionately high among First Nations… Read more.
Not surprisingly, Trumped-up Republicans reacted by calling for a wall between the United States and Canada too. Just kidding. [Emulating Obama] Justin Trudeau got help from youth, new voters, social media in election win… Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outpaced his competition on Twitter on Election Day as well; there were more than 150,000 tweets to… Read more.
The media have provided saturation coverage over the past few weeks of the endemic corruption that has attended the selection process for the FIFA Men’s World Cup. Media executives would probably cite – without a hint of irony – the reputational damage this coverage caused as their reason for providing such scant coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which… Read more.
White Canadians often speak of the legacy of White supremacy in America with such self-righteousness, you’d never know they treated Native Canadians the way White Americans treated Native Americans. Here, for example, is an excerpt from “Delusions on Matters of Race Are Coming Home to Roost in Canada,” October 3, 2006, in which I cited… Read more.
The heart of the Canadian capital was traumatized and placed in emergency police lockdown on Wednesday after a gunman fatally wounded a soldier guarding the National War Memorial, entered the nearby Parliament building and fired multiple times before he was shot and killed. It was the second deadly assault on a uniformed member of Canada’s… Read more.
