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
If you speak to his friends like Adam Sandler, David Spade or Tim Meadows - the people he came up with at… — Neil Macdonald Adam sandler 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 Donald trump 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 American Copy Share Image
The word nationalism, to most people, has a virtuous whiff; historically, it's been conflated with terms like patriotism and loyalty and solidarity… — Neil Macdonald Loyalty Copy Share Image
I am delighted to see the government spending more money to improve Indigenous life, and I would be happy to see even… — Neil Macdonald Government Copy Share Image
Yes, American medicine has its pathologies, but Canada's does, too, and we need to wake up. Government controls everything here, and governments… — Neil Macdonald American Copy Share Image
Our virtuous system is already corrupt. Does anyone seriously think that cabinet ministers or captains of industry or powerful officials wait in… — Neil Macdonald Captains of industry 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
A white nationalist would claim that flying the confederate flag on a state building is an expression of cultural history, rather than… — Neil Macdonald Building Copy Share Image
Yes, America's vast foreign service and intelligence organs may disagree with that assessment. And some of Israel's most senior intelligence figures regard… — Neil Macdonald Diplomacy Copy Share Image
As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy… — Neil Macdonald Big Copy Share Image
Personally, I saw no organized malevolence toward reporters in the IDF; I'd dealt with enough Israeli soldiers to know that many of… — Neil Macdonald Book Copy Share Image
Americans are raised to believe that anything is possible in America if you are pure of heart and willing to work hard,… — Neil Macdonald America Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, and the Hockey Night in Canada theme issued from our black-and-white Sylvania TV, I disappeared to the… — Neil Macdonald Canada Copy Share Image
I seem to have a missing gene when it comes to organized sports. Televised events bore me and I literally fear the… — Neil Macdonald Events Copy Share Image
Trump eventually slurs anyone who inconveniences him, and the plain, measurable fact is that a large majority of Jewish American voters continue… — Neil Macdonald American Copy Share Image
In fact, American presidents never apologize for what America does in war, because in the American mind, all its wars are defensive,… — Neil Macdonald American Copy Share Image
It's almost ironic sitting here watching stories about Norm's courageous 'battle' with cancer. He actually did a bit on stage about how… — Neil Macdonald Battle Copy Share Image
White nationalism is about keeping power white. Yes, yes, there are minority groups represented among Justin Trudeau's ministers, but they were all… — Neil Macdonald Ministers Copy Share Image
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies… — Neil Macdonald American Copy Share Image
There is a small industry out there called media training. It offers instruction on how to 'control a narrative,' to use that… — Neil Macdonald Control 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 Barack obama 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
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous… — Neil Macdonald Bad 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
I am grateful to hockey. As a CBC employee, I would be foolish not to be. Hockey Night in Canada probably pays… — Neil Macdonald Good Copy Share Image
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
Maybe the Tea Party dream is coming true, and the next Republican presidential nominee will be a blunt-object, red-meat down-the-line rightie. — Neil Macdonald Dreams Copy Share Image
The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two… — Neil Macdonald Between Copy Share Image
Trump seems to accept the idea that there are secret Muslim training camps in America, and has openly suggested Obama himself is… — Neil Macdonald Accept Copy Share Image
Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington,… — Neil Macdonald He Copy Share Image
Call me radical, but I've always thought there are at least two subjects on which journalists are absolutely entitled to express public… — Neil Macdonald Expression Copy Share Image
In 2008, Obama rode to victory in good part by wearing the openness face, casting the Bush administration as intrusive, secretive hawks… — Neil Macdonald Bush administration Copy Share Image
Political professionals on all sides of the Ottawa aisle understand the same basic fact: given the electoral realities in this country, there… — Neil Macdonald Country Copy Share Image
It is hard for the media to outright label a sitting president a white supremacist, or even a garden variety racist. If… — Neil Macdonald Garden Copy Share Image
