Unfortunately, in the current political and law enforcement environment, the shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good was inevitable. Politicians and courts have spent decades elevating police into a privileged class whose members demand deference and immediate obedience from the public. At the same time, the United States is fracturing along ideological and partisan lines with the factions becoming increasingly confrontational and violent. Those developments met in Minneapolis where Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agents wielded as political weapons by the Trump administration ran up against opposition activists who have repeatedly clashed with the feds. Good died as a result. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to China next week to discuss trade with President Xi Jinping, just as American power is moving hard and fast to curtail or eliminate Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Canada has nothing to gain from isolating itself from the United States or the West in the short term, just to stick it to Donald Trump. Read More