Asa Mckercher News Today

When paired with the acute decline of Canadian capitalism and the slow decay of the US empire—the one-time imperial hegemon to which Canada has sutured itself—Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar. As CD columnist Owen Schalk explains, the Chinese interference fantasy is merely their latest manifestation.

Western University is looking to remove former professor Kenneth Hilborn’s name from six scholarships, pending an Ontario court’s approval.

Congress, the Cuba Resolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis President Kennedy signs the authorization of the naval quarantine of Cuba on Oct. 23, 1962. (Abbie Rowe, https://tinyurl.com/mfjr6w6d; Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Material_in_the_public_domain) How much influence did Congress exert in the events of the Cuban missile crisis? Conventional wisdom tells us that the legislature’s influence was minor or even nonexistent. Graham Allison, who some obser...