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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Many of US President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees just don’t have the gravitas or institutional experience in dealing with giant bureaucracies to serve effectively, critics say. That whining you hear is the sound of progress.

Trump, who has spent his entire business career in real estate, taking a ...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – In the end, it wasn’t even close. How did an impeached former president and convicted felon end up back in the White House by an overwhelming margin of 312 to 226 electoral votes, and with carte blanche Republican control of the Senate and likely also Congress? Buckle up for a leisurely cruise through ...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — What could be nicer music to the ears of a deeply divided American electorate than U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ calls for “unity” as her final campaign message? Well, put it this way: You know when you went to the amusement park and were lured by the gentle-looking kiddie ride, only to have it spin you...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Western establishment is desperate for a Trump loss on Nov. 5 – to the point of tacitly supporting pro-Harris foreign election meddling.

“I have nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia,” wrote ...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The carbon tax scam here in Canada is an abysmal failure, to the point where it’s increasingly looking like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is going to have to scrap it if he wants any hope of getting re-elected. Apparently, US Democratic presidential contender, Vice President Kamala Harris, didn’t get the memo....Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — There's a reason why Howard Stern is considered one of the best interviewers in the business. He just managed to show us exactly who Kamala Harris is during a recent interview, despite his own declared effort to mitigate that.

Right from the get-go, legendary shock jock Howard Stern said that he had been nervous ...Read more

PARIS – When Iran finally reacted to months of Israeli attacks on its interests, Western leaders almost unanimously announced, one by one, that they “stand with Israel.” Please, just take a seat already, before you drag the whole planet into a world war.

“I’m standing with Ukraine” or “I’m standing with Israel,” say our ...Read more

PARIS — Those of us who were around on the West Coast in the’ 90s remember the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, aged 18 and 21 at the time, who, in 1989, killed their parents with multiple shotgun blasts. The case was part of a patchwork of high- profile local dramas that gripped the nation, along with the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Rodney ...Read more

PARIS — An act of mass terrorism was perpetrated on Lebanon last week as consumer electronic devices exploded in synchronicity across the public landscape. But it’s not terrorism to Washington if the guys who did it are their buddies, I guess.

“I can tell you that the US was not involved in it, the US was not aware of this incident in ...Read more

PARIS — Washington says that it had nothing to do with the latest alleged coup attempt over the weekend in Venezuela.

Cue the laugh track.

“Any claims of US involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the crisis in Venezuela,” a State Department ...Read more

PARIS – It’s once again that time of the U.S. presidential election cycle when federal officials start talking about alleged foreign influence by the usual suspects, notably Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. But the most effective solution seems to be flying right under everyone’s radar.

Law enforcement isn’t it, if only because a ...Read more

PARIS – It’s been hard to find someone who has been more critical of Trumpist immigration policy than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the establishment for which he fronts. Until now.

“Canadians understand that diversity is our strength. We know that Canada has succeeded – culturally, politically, economically – because of ...Read more

PARIS — Am I the only one who had to stop paying attention to the endless bombardment of U.S. presidential election rhetoric recently and actively seek out the relative “boredom” of written platforms for some actual substance?

Back when I was involved in running North American political campaigns, one of the most basic rules was that you ...Read more