All this talk of major leaders stepping aside, but it’s the Mayor of Kamloops BC, Reid Hamer-Jackson, who has our attention.

Do we need to “dial down” our political rhetoric in Canada, following the attempted assassination of Trump?

Over the past two weeks, the media has suddenly become experts in diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders following Biden’s stumbles at the debate. Canadian Youtuber J.J. McCullough joins Justin Ling to dissect this presidential testing of our patience. 

It’s been a tough week for leadership in North America, with calls for resignation dominating the headlines on both sides of the border. 

What’s going on in Han Dong’s defamation case against Global News?

Can a newspaper commit treason? The NSICOP report singles out China as the biggest foreign influence on Canadian media (and it’s more than just advertorial inserts.)

Buzzfeed released a dossier of compromising information about Trump, so he called Buzzfeed a “failing pile of garbage,” and CNN “fake news.” John Furlong has been reinstated as a UBC keynote speaker. Jon Kay’s mother is an MRA supporter, so naturally he failed to disclose this in a sympathetic piece about MRAs in The Walrus. Manisha Krishnan’s Twitter @ManishaKrishnan Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder, and Mark Schoofs’ Buzzfeed piece, “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia” (Jan 10th 2017) Tom McCarthy and Matthew Weaver’s Guardian live-blogging of Trump’s press conference in response to the released dossier. UBC’s announcement about John Furlong, “UBC reinstates John Furlong as keynote speaker” (Jan 9th 2017) Jon Kay’s Walrus piece, “Don’t Call it Men’s Rights” (Jan 6th 2017) Manisha Krishnan’s VICE series, “The Real Story Behind the Rise of Creep Catchers, Canada’s Vigilante Pedophile Hunters” (Jan 5th 2017) Craig Offman and Nathan Vanderklippe’s Globe and Mail piece, “Cash-for-access organizers sought payments that exceeded federal contribution limits” (Dec 22nd 2016) Barry Cooper’s Calgary Herald piece, “Cooper: British Columbia shows us what happens when we go to pot” (Jan 4th 2017) Camilla Turner’s Telegraph piece, “Students demand Plato, Descartes and other white philosophers be dropped from curriculum” (Jan 9th 2017)

Trump’s 34 felony convictions made history in the U.S., but will his efforts to undermine the Rule of Law have an effect on Canadian attitudes towards the legal system?