Jan 22 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — In the U.S., the media are full of fury at the sluggish pace of the country’s vaccination rollout. Headlines describe it as a “debacle,” a “disaster,” even a “total disaster,” and why not? As of Thursday, just 36 million doses had been distributed nationwide, of which 17.2 million had been administered, i.e. injected into people’s […]
Jan 19 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Derek Sloan is right. It is hypocritical for the Conservative Party to kick him out of caucus for unwittingly accepting a donation from the notorious neo-Nazi – and party member – Paul Fromm, when the party had done the same. Like Mr. Sloan, the party failed to screen out either Mr. Fromm’s donation or membership […]
Jan 13 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — You say you’re worried about the attempted violent overthrow of the government of the United States by unhinged followers of Donald Trump, or the further coup attempts promised for the days to come? Well, what about the real coup, far more dangerous in its implications: the coup de Twitter? That was the response from many […]
Jan 8 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Ideally, the president of the United States should not be leading an insurrection against the government of the United States. But then, in a perfect world the president would not be a habitual law-breaker, not only corrupt in himself but an energetic corrupter of the institutions of law by which the corrupt are brought to […]
Jan 5 2021 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — As I write this, it is unclear whether the United States will survive as a democracy. The result of the runoff election for Georgia’s two Senate seats will soon be known, but no one can say with any certainty whether that will decide it. Nor can anyone say with certainty that any future election will […]
Dec 30 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — “That’s why Alberta will be holding a referendum to scrap equalization from the Constitution in October, 2021. Albertans demand a fair deal from Ottawa, and we will not give up that fight.” Thus spoke Jason Kenney, in response to the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement – a document that promised to substantially increase payments to […]
Dec 24 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C., 20580 Plaintiff v. SANTA CLAUS, INC. North Pole Defendant COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF Plaintiff petitions this Court for permanent relief against Defendant Santa Claus, Inc. (“Santa”), to undo and prevent its anticompetitive conduct and unfair […]
Dec 18 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Time was when a proposal to more than quintuple the carbon tax would have been kind of a big deal in Conservative circles. Yet the Trudeau government offered up precisely that last week – an increase in the national carbon price from $30 a tonne at present to $170 by 2030, and the official opposition […]
Dec 15 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — One thing on which admirers and critics of the Liberals’ new climate plan seem to agree is its boldness. Particular attention has focused on the proposal to increase the carbon tax by $15 a tonne each year, from $50 in 2022 to $170 in 2030. Bold? Maybe. Certainly it is refreshing, not to say unprecedented, […]
Dec 11 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Six years ago, before the Supreme Court discovered a right to die in the constitution’s guarantee of the right to life, what most people understood as the case for assisted dying was something like the following: a mentally competent adult, suffering acute pain from a terminal illness and facing more of the same to the […]
Dec 3 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Possibly we will discover the departure of Paul Rochon as deputy minister of finance the day after the fall economic statement was not entirely coincidental. Were I in his place, I would not wish to be associated with that dog’s breakfast of bookkeeping tricks, uncosted spending and rosy scenarios…
Dec 1 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — “In this fall economic statement,” the Finance Minister boasted to Parliament in the speech that accompanied it, “we are being transparent about the continuing uncertainty.” That much is true. Alas, there the transparency ends. This is less an economic statement than a promissory note, written in pencil. All sorts of things are hinted at, foretold, […]
Nov 27 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — Give Justin Trudeau credit for one thing: The man knows how to deflect. As news broke in recent weeks of the first vaccines against the coronavirus to pass phase 3 clinical trials, from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, and as it emerged the vaccines would begin distribution in some countries as early as next month, the […]
Nov 26 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — It would be of the greatest assistance in dispelling populist fears of shadowy globalist plots for world domination if the objects of their paranoia did not so often carry on like cackling Bond villains. Take the latest fog of confusion to escape from the boiling recesses of the internet, over the “Great Reset.” No, the […]
Nov 20 2020 — Andrew Coyne — Globe and Mail — We are all Australians now. On Wednesday, the House of Commons passed a motion calling on the government to confront the growing threat to Canada’s “national interest and values” posed by Xi Jinping’s Communist regime in China. It gave Ottawa 30 days to come up with a plan to combat China’s surveillance and intimidation of […]