Sandy Garossino
National Observer
Vancouver, WA, United States
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Hell yes, we should sue Big Oil
This might be too much to ask, but when elected officials roll out big climate initiatives, could they please be ready to comprehensively frame issues for the public? writes columnist Sandy Garossino. → Read More
Let’s have an adult conversation about abortion
Meanwhile, can we get real for just a minute and talk about sex and pregnancy as if we’re adult humans with real life experience and not children reading about it in books? asks columnist Sandy Garossino. → Read More
Startling Trump interference points to GoFundMe convoy campaign manipulation
If you think there’s something extremely fishy about the GoFundMe “Freedom” campaign, you’re onto something, writes columnist Sandy Garossino. → Read More
Are the Liberals our best chance?
"If there's one lesson we should have learned as a nation these last two years, it's the indispensable role of government." → Read More
Cut a deal and bring the Michaels home
The Xi Jinping regime will not bend or give ground until the Meng Wanzhou proceedings are terminated, whether by Canada or the United States, writes columnist Sandy Garossino. → Read More
Clear their names, Jason Kenney
Steve Allan’s anti-Alberta energy inquiry has found the accusations levelled by the Jason Kenney government against environmentalists to be a complete sham, writes columnist Sandy Garossino. → Read More
The day they invaded Congress
If the least surprising thing in the world is that a mob of Trump extremists would storm the U.S. House and Senate as they met to confirm the president-elect, the most shocking was that it would be so easy, writes Sandy Garossino. → Read More
Grown man defeats proud boy
As a figure unblemished by shame or reflection, Donald Trump perfectly embodies a pre-pubescent ideal of manhood as unrestrained dominance. That he stands today unrivaled as the ultimate Proud Boy icon is entirely fitting, because Trump is childish to his core. → Read More
Where's Kenney's War Room money really going?
This is not adding up. → Read More
Kobe Bryant, an LA Story
Was it too much to ask that the family make it through just one day of unimaginable grief without someone dredging that up? In 2020, yes it was. → Read More
Alberta is the ‘whipping boy’ of foreign philanthropy and other myths
Part 2 in a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations. → Read More
Jason Kenney foreign-funding conspiracy theory is false and we can prove it
Part 1 of a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations. → Read More
The hidden key to the SNC-Lavalin scandal
Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file. → Read More
Canada's pawn in the Xi-Trump cyber game
News that China has detained a third Canadian over the arrest of (Sabrina) Meng Wanzhou has turned up the heat on Canada to find some way out of the current legal impasse. As of this writing, Canadians Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor, and Sarah McIver are all detained, although McIver’s status is yet to be clarified. Faced with a simple extradition warrant for Meng from the United States, Canada… → Read More
PRINCE SCARFACE: How long can Mohammed bin Salman last?
This Khashoggi business has turned into a laughable parody of a Monty Python dead parrot sketch. → Read More
Inside the mind of a mass killer
Toronto has been struck again, laid low by another mass killer. What experiences drive people who kill indiscriminately? National Observer's Sandy Garossino interviews a renowned criminologist for answers. → Read More
The truth behind the story engulfing Canada's Sikh politicians
Trudeau's India visit tarnished by a hysteria with a long and deep historical context the media completely misunderstood, parroting racist, anti-Sikh rhetoric that was dangerously damaging. → Read More
Trudeau’s pipeline plan on collision course in B.C.
Yet even if Kinder Morgan clears the hurdle of a First Nations court challenge and First Nations activism, it must then confront formidable opposition from BC environmental activists. For better or worse, not every goal a government sets is politically achievable. → Read More
Who the hell is @RVAwonk and how is she cracking the Kremlin's code?
This was the year that transformed Donald Trump from buffoon candidate into president of the United States and sent the globe careening toward the precipice over which it now teeters. It was the year the world began to comprehend how deeply Russian propaganda has penetrated the American psyche. They used a wholly unexpected and lethal weapon — our own irresistible addiction to the Internet. → Read More
Where was the FBI on Trump this whole time?
As Americans and millions around the world sit transfixed by the news emerging from the Mueller investigation, one question seems glaringly absent. How did a guy like Trump elude major scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS, gambling regulators and every other major police agency for his entire adult life? → Read More