As the panic surrounding the Coronavirus spreads as quickly as the virus itself, governments around the world are scrambling to contain both
To be sure, there’s barely ever anything genuine or important to glean from American presidential primary debates.
The party came screaming out of the gates by being unable to count its own votes in a caucus held in Iowa
Such is the speed of the Coronavirus, it is difficult to write on exactly what is happening, precisely because the numbers of infected and dead keep rising
On the one hand, President Trump’s impeachment trial can be seen as the culmination of a years–long attempt to finally get to Trump.
The devastating fires in Australia that have ravaged thousands of hectares, destroyed thousands of homes, and killed more than two dozen people
There’s Trump and his cronies’ justification for killing Soleimani. The claim is that the man was planning imminent attacks on Americans.
Two decades of much lower transit taxes for most of the richest areas of Hamilton are set to continue.
Nobody is happier that the British election cycle lasts such a short time than current Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
As the tiresome American election cycle wearily plods towards the first primaries, with disdain for billionaires and the dramatic wealth inequality
There are two types of people reading this article. One, those who know what the Mayor Pete Dance is, and to you, Godspeed, I know you’ve lived it.
Whether he’s selling you a condo, or a club membership, or that he’s of good health, it’s all of one piece.
No matter where you stand on Don Cherry, it is fair to say that it will be strange to no longer see Coach’s Corner.
Continuing a refrain from earlier in the campaign, Bernie Sanders advisers once again went after what they view as unfair treatment from the media.
As the domestic situation becomes completely lost within itself, a chaotic Trumpian nightmare unfolded at seeming warp speed on the Turkey–Syria border
Sunny ways, my friends, sunny ways! It’s all felt so positive, so hopeful, these past few weeks, these stumbling days of the 2019 Canadian federal election
It feels almost absurd to write a piece about the current impeachment process unfolding against Donald Trump in the halls of American power.
“How dare you.” With these three words, Greta Thunberg placed herself squarely in the limelight, and what followed was all things
Last week, photos of Justin Trudeau dressed in blackface emerged, creating chaos for a campaign built around stability and continuation.
Just as the Democratic Party was gearing up for a good, old-fashioned impeachment - something they've been desperate for since Trump was elected...
Donald Trump’s presidency is nothing more than a four year battle to ensure that every single thing he says is true
The government just did a lottery for Cannabis Dispensaries in the city and this time around Hamilton won three locations.
The Amazon is burning, have you heard? Have you seen the photos of that rainforest we baked cookies for falling to ash?
As the weeks mercifully tick by in the embarrassingly long race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Biden’s lead has somehow managed to hold up.
'Central Planning' loses before it even begins. In America, central planning of the economy was cemented into place when the U.S. Congress established
There’s little point in going through the particulars of the various conspiracy theories that have been brought forth
President Trump announced a full US embargo of Venezuela, with punishment for anyone of any nationality who "supports" the Maduro government.
For years, when America was dealing with the tragic fallout of yet another mass shooting, we often heard the demand that politics be left out of it.
Does what we do matter? This question, for most of human intellectual history has often been a philosophical one.
Hilarious and irreverent with a take on news, politics and culture Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian, author and podcaster delivers
America will never become Socialist? That's probably true, but Socialist policies are not on the outside, looking in.
It was Sunday morning in America. It was a Sunday morning, like most other Sunday mornings in America.
You don't spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
If leaders and citizens engage in a debate about whether the places you are holding asylum–seekers and refugees are ‘technically’ concentration camps
For starters, these things just looked and sounded like an absolute mess. We’ll get into the asinine ‘debating’ that unfolded
“No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything, They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard.”
Health Canada’s regulatory framework on cannabis edibles will likely receive parliamentary approval and royal assent within weeks.
Scheer and both his supporters and colleagues are trying to do the work of blunting Premier Ford’s impact
Ron Paul Liberty Report - Will Trump remember the organization he praised so much on the campaign trail?
While speaking off the record to a group of supporters, Secretary of State Pompeo revealed that US policy toward Venezuela has been a disaster
What is Fake News? Surely, the term deserves a few dozen dissertations at this point and no doubt, we will get them.
On March 22 the Hamilton Spectator featured an op–ed by former Mohawk College Centre For Climate Change expert Sandi Stride
The Jimmy Dore Show is a hilarious take on news, politics and culture featuring Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian, author and podcaster.
As the political smoke begins to clear on the phoney Russia investigation. Robert Mueller attempts and fails the cover his own tracks.
Just over a week since it was floated that 120,000 US troops could go to the Middle East to confront Iran
After nearly a year, Enbridge has obtained approval from the National Energy Board to sell its Line 10 pipeline to Westover Express.
Last week, Alabama became the latest American state to introduce a stringent anti–abortion law. On the heels of places such as Ohio, Georgia and Missouri
Last week, Amazon CEO and world’s wealthiest man Jeff Bezos gave his best version of a TED Talk, titled “Going To Space To Benefit Earth.”
More Ontario cities have made similar moves and Toronto is going after the oil companies who profit most from the rising levels of greenhouse gases
To be sure, many of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for President are people I’d wish to stay comfortably distanced from the Oval Office.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers a lecture on the future of Brexit, from Monday June 18th 2018