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That's just prudent. Some people are bound to go hunting for evidence of any price increases, anywhere, and there will undoubtedly be some. The actual causes of those price increases are unlikely to be investigated to determine whether they are consequences of privatization or of other events...

Liberal Patriot is gone, but Ruy Teixeira is still sticking to his themes at another substack called Welcome Stack. In this article he mentions an important point, drawing on a 2030 apportionment forecast. Reliably Democratic states could lose up to 9 seats, and reliably Republican states...

Some people just enjoy their work. For some their work is part of their identity and sense of self-worth, and of those some are aware of it and therefore reluctant to retire; the ones who don't anticipate it are the kinds of people who end up expressing feelings of loss and whatnot after...

The chaos goes away. The think tanks and their political access remain.

Surely such a thing cannot exist. Trump is all chaos and bombast; there could not possibly be any single - let alone multiple - agenda being advanced by people behind him. It is imperative that critics continue to focus their time and attention on the man, not on the evolution of policies within...

With the dissident conservatives having established a home in the shell of CentreBC, an election to wrongfoot the Conservative opposition is suddenly a much larger risk. It would undoubtedly wrongfoot them, but also apply pressure to the moderates to quickly organize - I don't doubt that they...

You seem to be seeing a huge impediment where I see none. I get that the US is written into the treaty as the centre of administrative treaty matters (primarily accession and renunciation). I don't see nations necessarily wringing their hands over how to adapt the existing treaty and simply...

It's a treaty, not a constitution. It doesn't need an amending formula. The non-US members could meet, agree to adopt the provisions of the treaty with the replacement of the US by some other depository state, retain all the other trappings of the organization and start unwinding US...

Have you read the treaty? I've gone back and skimmed it. My initial recollection is reinforced: most articles don't mention the US at all, and those that do are chiefly concerned with its function as a depository.

Findlay has cooked herself. Is she too obtuse to realize this, or just too stubborn to take the inevitable exit and resign?

Which couple? If all that needs to happen is for some other country to be swapped in for the US as the depository, then the member states and candidate just need to agree on the choice and swap the names in the text. Switzerland? Austria? Someone completely outside the area of interest, like...

To save time, which articles of the treaty do you think cannot easily be adapted?

I don't need to actually read the entire treaty to understand that a complete rewrite is more likely to be a failure of imagination and will, or perhaps a motivation to tick other boxes, than a "need". I can guess that there are provisions that can be retained without changing a word.

By accumulated observations, I figure that if you immediately present with an obvious problem or have a diagnosis in hand for a life-threatening problem, you will get a high standard of care. The failure of the system is in providing timely access through the gateways by which one gets to that...

"We can't do this ourselves" is a weak reason to support entangling ourselves with the EU's much greater laboratory of dysfunction. Canada doesn't need outside help to change its own rules, although external events can sometimes push countries to do things they should have been doing without...

I doubt such a "need" exists, although undoubtedly the opportunity would tempt a lot of people to pretend there is one for purposes of advancing various agendas right down to basic grifting. There is a rational path and an irrational path that could be taken. The rational path is to minimize...

His performance isn't the issue. His priors and ideologies are. An eyebrow-raising topic like "EU associate membership" dropped into public discourse suddenly and without the least attempt to provide any specifics, followed immediately by expressed confusion and ignorance on the parts of...

Ye of little faith. When crises which create opportunities for change do not present themselves, governments find ways to create their own.

Conceivably Trudeau was unpopular enough that Carney might have still made his move, dragging his European-influenced history and CV and connections with him. And that's still irrelevant to what "reality" is right now. "Why" the present is what it is, is at least a little bit interesting, but...

Either such a deal is going to require some non-zero amount of "you have to follow EU regulations in respect of..." or it's not. If it's not - if it's just some agreement to increase the percentage of stuff covered by CETA - then fine. No kind of special membership is needed for that, though...