Canada has treated abortion as just another medical procedure since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the old criminal law. Most… — Neil Macdonald Abortion Copy Share Image
And what are the Liberals' election talking points, in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary. — Neil Macdonald Age Copy Share Image
My dad, toward the end of his life, said our health care system expects you to check your brains at the door.… — Neil Macdonald Control Copy Share Image
But that's the way America rolls nowadays. Consensus, laws and treaties are out. Smug, religion-soaked majoritarianism is in fashion. It is not… — Neil Macdonald America Copy Share Image
Certainly no university president, at least to my knowledge, has ever stood up and said 'this land is unceded, meaning it's not… — Neil Macdonald Knowledge Copy Share Image
Trump's direct predecessor, Barack Obama, never attacked his own generals or officials on Twitter, and never referred to war criminals as heroes. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
In early 2008, before the criminal greed of America's mortgage and investment bank industry nearly destroyed the world's economy, the balance sheet… — Neil Macdonald America Copy Share Image
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Trump has not only ordered a disturbing military buildup in the Persian Gulf, he's determined to punish any country that has continued… — Neil Macdonald Business Copy Share Image
Trump cannot be re-elected without the votes of evangelical Christians, a group of people who, because of their heated eschatological dreams, are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone… — Neil Macdonald Communication Copy Share Image
I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for… — Neil Macdonald Country Copy Share Image
Fortunately for Canada it is part of the so-called Five Eyes network, along with the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand. These… — Neil Macdonald Canada Copy Share Image
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment - and older people… — Neil Macdonald Central bank Copy Share Image
People who don't own dogs can stay out as late as they please, or drive off on a whim for the weekend,… — Neil Macdonald Animal Copy Share Image
Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics.… — Neil Macdonald Economics Copy Share Image
I am grateful to hockey. As a CBC employee, I would be foolish not to be. Hockey Night in Canada probably pays… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
White nationalism is in fact white supremacy. It's understandable that white supremacists would want to be called nationalists, but that doesn't make… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
I do not hear any plan for sheltering Canadians from the next global financial crisis, which is coming for all of us… — Neil Macdonald Boomers Copy Share Image
Politicians pose and grip and grin, and mouth blandishments, and, like the beloved Arab leaders, are careful to say nothing. The prime… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Trump is a travelling freak show, and bound to say or do something laughably stupid wherever he goes, so, because he's president,… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
At the very least, Donald Trump and his most rabid followers have been objective allies of the white supremacist movement, even if… — Neil Macdonald Allies Copy Share Image
I saw a bumper sticker once that stayed with me: 'God help me become the person my dog thinks I am.' I… — Neil Macdonald Bumper sticker Copy Share Image
Conservatives generally think it's best to take enemies at their word, to believe their bombast and threats and make preparations, rather than… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say many evangelicals consider Trump an anointed figure; a clearly venal man somehow chosen by their God… — Neil Macdonald America Copy Share Image
For a journalist working in Gaza or the Occupied Territories, a PRESS badge offers limited protection at best. For a Palestinian journalist,… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
During my years in the United States, I met a lot of evangelicals; they comprise a quarter of the American population, and… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Like Donald Trump, Trudeau is in high office because of how the system groups and allocates votes. No wonder the Liberals broke… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
There's a reason the United States opposes the very existence of the International Criminal Court, at least where American war crimes are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
If you speak to his friends like Adam Sandler, David Spade or Tim Meadows - the people he came up with at… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Governments, many of them European, are actually offering - and investors are buying - bonds that are worth less at the end… — Neil Macdonald Bonds Copy Share Image
The fact is, no modern president, Democrat or Republican, has shown the level of contempt for taking questions from the media that… — Neil Macdonald Contempt Copy Share Image
Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his… — Neil Macdonald America Copy Share Image
The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's a lovely thing to see intelligent argument, unbending principle and policy go up against demagoguery, nativism and vulgar name-calling. — Neil Macdonald Argument Copy Share Image
The other danger of the Snowden disclosures, of course, is that they reveal methods that should make any sensible person more careful… — Neil Macdonald Danger Copy Share Image
People are told in their churches to vote Republican. I've heard pastors say it from the evangelical pulpit. Congregants are actually told… — Neil Macdonald Government Copy Share Image
I've seen former vice president, and now Democratic leadership candidate Joe Biden up close. He seemed a pleasant fellow. But I'm damned… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
In Trump's lizard political brain, all Jews should unconditionally support Israel, so all American Jews should support him, the greatest supporter of… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The modern election campaign is created by power in order to convince the realm that all is well, and, further, that its… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
