Communism is a limit on wealth; socialism is a limit on poverty; capitalism is a limit on those limits; democracy is a limit on capitalism; and fascism is a limit on democracy. ...

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) visited the Trump White House last week and went home with a deal to buy American F-35 fighter jets. In Canada, we are reconsidering our plan to do the same, and with good reason. ...

Donald Trump may reach his untimely political end over some of the emasculating relevations still to come in the Epstein files, but the dictatorship he has created is not about to follow suit, and there are serious implications for Canada. ...

Interstellar travellers would have to check on Earth thousands of times to have a hope of dropping by in our era -- and if they arrived today, they probably wouldn't want to stick around. ...

Nova Scotia MP Chris D’Entremont’s floor crossing last week has put the Conservatives into a bit of a tizzy. When the roles were reversed, they were positively gleeful. Unfortunately for them, floor-crossing is a strength, not a weakness, of Canada’s democracy. One of the most famous floor cross...

I'd like to express my gratitude to ex-Liberal MP David Graham (@daviddbgraham.bsky.social), who regaled my first-year UAlberta poli sci students with tales from his term in office as well as thoughtfully answered their questions about current events and the future of Canada, U.S., and the world.

While we consider mega projects to build up Canadian sovereignty next to a United States government gleefully starving its people, artificial intelligence and automation are driving us down the road toward an even greater cataclysm that we need to get ahead of. On Thursday, Tesla’s board, fearin...

Canada does not need a second 2025 election, but Pierre Poilievre desperately needs his third kick at the can this year. And he needs to make it Mark Carney’s fault, which will be a tougher sell after yesterday. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s first federal budget is bringing home...

With the United States government now shut down for a full month while Republicans take away food assistance and medicare from vast swaths of the American population, Donald Trump has a new distraction: nuclear weapons testing. Through the noise, you may have missed the announcement that the Uni...

Donald Trump’s tax breaks to Americans add up to about $1 trillion per quarter, and overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest. It is no surprise, then, that the wealthiest are thanking him with relatively modest contributions to the new White House ballroom. There are numerous calls for the next pres...

Doug Ford is playing a long game. He has, in the past, openly supported Donald Trump and, as with so many, discovered that the Leopards Eating Faces Party will eventually come for your face too. For him, though, there is opportunity to become a leopard. Ford has been positioning himself as a kin...

Last weekend’s massive NO KINGS protest across the United States with shadow protests in several other countries is a funny one for us Canadians. We have a King, after all. A real hereditary king who adorns our money and in whose name all of our official documentation exists, from laws to corpora...

On Thursday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that the “leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.” Coming just weeks after the indictment of former FBI director James Comey south of... www.davidgraham.ca/p/poilievres...

Prima facie, Maria Corina Machado is an excellent choice for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the more I learn about her, the more I realise Trump actually won this round. ...

This week’s visit by Mark Carney to the White House has brought sharp focus onto the collapsing empire to our south, and the bullet we so narrowly dodged domestically on April 28th. ...

Donald Trump twice referred to annexing Canada into the United States during a half-hour press conference from the White House yesterday, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting right there next to him. ...

Being a Canadian today feels an awful lot like being in Austria in the mid 1930s, in the years leading up to Anschluss. After watching last night’s performance by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump at Marine base Quantico, I am left wondering how this absurdity will... www.davidgraham.ca/p/how-will-i...

The root cause of the social dysfunction allowing the rise of authoritarian leaders is a fundamental lack of progressive ambition. ...

Somewhere around 1000 detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz have disappeared. ...

In the year leading up to his bid for re-election, the president sought to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the voting machines and voting system throughout his country. Following his defeat, he planned a coup and his supporters attacked and ransacked the country’s national legislature. Now he ...

Poland invoked NATO Article 4 last week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace forcing a defensive military response. On the weekend, Romania reported a Russian drone violating their airspace, as well. As a member of NATO, Canada enjoys joint protection, but also shares in joint responsibil...

This week’s political assassination in the United States was not the year’s first, and the difference in reaction among right wing leaders is terrifyingly stark. ...

Last week, the United States Navy attacked a Venezuelan vessel in international waters, killing everyone on board under flimsy legal pretext. Like the January 6 pardons and the deployment of the National Guard on American streets, the purpose of the shooting was not so much to intimidate drug car...

This week, we learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team invited Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts to speak to cabinet at a closed-door session for his insight on “Trump’s playbook”. Roberts canceled his own appearance, to the disappointment of our leaders...

What does Pierre Poilievre want for Canada? Besides the personal prestige of being Prime Minister, he has offered no constructive ambition for the role he has fought so hard to obtain. ...

Should Trump die in office, it is not entirely clear that the 25th amendment will be followed when the rest of the constitution is already being ignored. There is, after all, another Donald J. Trump. ...

With record-breaking forest fires burning across the country as we experience a prolonged drought in the Maritimes, it is time to post a short story I wrote a few years ago. ...

Last week, the federal government upheld a ruling by the CRTC that existing fibre optic infrastructure must be shared with resellers in much the same way as cable and phone lines have for many years. The big telecom companies are mad, and I hope we make them a whole lot madder still. It is time f...

Dustin Burrows is a name that will one day have his own chapter in the Anthology of American Fascism. Burrows, the Speaker of the Texas state legislature, is the one who issued arrest warrants for Democrat representatives who left the state to prevent quorum to block the vote that would gerrymand...

I owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. His war on Canada gave me the needed impetus to bring my family to the one province we had not yet visited, when we normally would have taken our summer vacation time at least partly in the United States. ...

It's time for the government to issue a travel advisory warnings Canadians to avoid the United States for their own safety, not only as a means of economic protest. ...

There is no excuse for any employer to pay any full time worker less than the realistic cost of living within reasonable proximity of their place of employment. Minimum wage needs to be reformed, not just as a dollar amount, but as a concept. And it should be en... www.davidgraham.ca/p/how-minimu...

The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections. Democrat representatives refused to attend the vote, preventing the legislature from achieving quorum and effectively blocking the bill. ...

Monday, Elections Canada announced that, due to the inordinate number of candidates in Battle River—Crowfoot, voters will have to write out the name of the candidate they wish to elect. The implications are significant. ...

Between Canada and Mexico exists an ever-darkening expanse of medieval terror in a place we can reasonably refer to as the Gulf of America. With rampant corruption, mask-wearing goon squads kidnapping people off the streets, and a pedophile sovereign propped up by tech industry leaders and the re...

The Longest Ballot Committee has struck again, this time in the unnecessary Battle River-Crowfoot by-election prompted by Pierre Poilievre’s defeat in Carleton. The protest movement wants electoral law taken out of the hands of parliamentarians and is creating unwieldy ballots to make their point...

Summer is once again upon us. I can tell, not because of the date, nor the sweet sound of chirping birds, nor even the flowers in bloom. Summer's arrival is heralded by the ubiquitous sound of grazing lawn mowers. ...

The Epstein saga has laid bare a core principle of the modern conservative movement. By portraying liberals in advance as the spendiest, elitistest, pedophiliest people, they inure the public against later revelations of their own fiscal mismanagement, unpopular policies, or, now, sexual abuse. T...

If you have ever tried to park downtown in the middle of a weekday in nearly any Canadian city, you’ll find that it is expensive or difficult, often both. But if you have considered taking transit, it’s slow, requires an oddly specific amount of exact change, a ticket you have to ride transit to ...

It is not a mere matter of morbid curiosity that has us focusing so much attention on the United States. It is the knowledge that authoritarian states tend to expand, that the American dictator has repeated numerous times that he wants to annex Canada, that whatever happens in the land of our la...

The American descent into fascism is so rapid and comprehensive as to suggest its architects are indeed students of history. The expression “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” appears to be truncated when confronted with reality. ...

It is impossible to overstate the significance of yesterday’s launch of “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades. The fenced-in compound is nothing short of a concentration camp. Where is the sudden need for so much more detention capacity in the world’s most incarcerated country? ...

33-year old self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani beat billionaire-backed Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic primary for the mayor of New York this week. The racist diatribes coming from the right about a Muslim running the most populous city in the country isn’t surprising, but the sho...

In a properly functioning society, charity would not need to exist. Food banks, medical foundations, historical societies, and so many other groups and organisations we take for granted as normal charitable organisations are universally a symbol of the failure of our social imagination, a logical...

The new federal government is seeking to give law enforcement new investigative powers without judicial oversight. In an economy where nearly everything now is subscription based, giving these agencies the ability to demand data from any business about any client at any time on the mere reasonabl...

When Donald Trump’s first act as the 47th president of the United States was to pardon 1,500 people involved in his January 6 2021 coup attempt, he gave license to his supporters to harm his opponents on the understanding that he would protect them. Those pardons were not for what they had done, ...

Today in Washington, DC, Donald Trump is planning a $45 million Soviet-style military parade to celebrate his 79th birthday, while using 4700 military personnel to suppress protests in Los Angeles in violation of Posse Comitatus, and the same week as a US Senator was assaulted and handcuffed for ...

Pierre Poilievre is exactly the leader the Conservative Party of Canada needs today. It is completely sensible for them to launch their leader out of a riding barely 20 minutes drive from Parliament Hill that he was unable to find on a map, and parachute him into a safe rural riding two timezones...

Trump has long wanted an excuse to invoke martial law to abolish any remaining pretence of democracy in his country. Musk’s end game is to install Vance as a more controllable and longer term dictator who is not, on his own, palatable to the voting public. It is all beginning to come together thi...

Don’t be fooled. Elon Musk is not leaving the White House with his tail between his legs, discredited and rejected. He is leaving because he has accomplished what he set out to accomplish. His companies are no longer under investigation. He likely has access to virtually every entry of every data...