Category: Politics

“I can’t believe this is reality.” I do not know his name or anything else about the young man who shouted this on Wednesday afternoon as he entered the Capitol, his voice combining lunatic urgency with the boredom of someone playing a video game. But one thing I do know is that he is likely […]

President-elect Joe Biden is already suggesting new laws in response to the attempted right-wing putsch against the American government this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that “he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism … [and has] been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against […]

When COVID-19 started exploding back in March, the Dow Jones Industrial Average often tumbled by a thousand or even two thousand points a day. So how did the stock market react this week to another extreme crisis — the most destructive breach of the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812 and what could be […]

Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump’s account, and it honestly comes as a relief. We’re going to need to have a longer conversation, soon, about what it means that a giant corporation can effectively silence the president of the United States if it chooses. But under the circumstances — with five people having died this […]

John Bresnahan has covered Congress for decades, previously as Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau chief and now as co-founder of Punchbowl News. On the podcast The Ticket, he describes what he saw inside the building as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol this week—and what implications the searing event could have going forward. Listen to his […]

As the mob seized the Capitol, Jamie Raskin thought not of himself, but of his younger daughter, Tabitha, who had asked him not to go to work that day. “This is an essential constitutional moment,” he had told her. Rather than stay home, he proposed another idea: What if she came along? When Raskin, the […]

The events of Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 were not an attempted coup. Words mean things, and it’s extremely important that we get our concepts right. A coup is an elite action, when people near the seat of power (usually senior members of the military) defy the law to overthrow a government and install another in […]

As pro-Trump insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, you heard the same refrain from commentators and elected officials over and over again — that this isn’t the kind of thing that happens in America, that this looked like the situation in some war-torn foreign country, that we’re better than this. “The scenes of chaos […]

The scandal involving politicians and senior government employees from other provinces for travelling abroad in the age of COVID-19 has touched down in B.C. It was revealed this week that a member of Vancouver’s senior leadership team and several municipal councillors from West Vancouver and the Victoria area left the country in recent weeks, in […]

This afternoon, a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol, where Congress had convened to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The insurrectionists clashed with police, scaled walls, broke windows, and carried Confederate and Trump flags throughout the Capitol’s halls. Members of Congress and their staffers sheltered in place before being evacuated from […]

A fascist pro-Trump mob attempted a putsch against the government of the United States Wednesday. Congress was certifying the Electoral College results, which several Republican lawmakers had planned to protest, when the mob stormed the Capitol building. Despite consisting of perhaps a thousand people at the most, they overwhelmed police barricades, broke into the building, […]

A Metchosin councillor who travelled to Mexico in December for a friend’s wedding, despite government directives advising against non-essential travel, says she was up front with Metchosin’s mayor, council and the public about her travel plans. “Yes we made the decision to travel,” said Kyara Kahakauwila, who has been a councillor since 2006. “We didn’t […]

VICTORIA — Only 15 per cent of British Columbians eligible for government’s COVID-19 benefit received money before Christmas, despite Premier John Horgan’s election promise that the cash would help the hardest-hit during the holidays. The B.C. government issued benefit payments to approximately 552,000 people before Dec. 25, out of 3.7 million people eligible for the […]

Here are some of the ways that $443,210,038.26 could have been spent in the state of Georgia in 2020. Each time someone filed for unemployment—4.2 million claims have been processed since March, more than the past nine years combined—that person could have received a $100 bill. Roughly 100,000 of the state’s 1.4 million residents who […]