Author: brian gibb

First there was the plague. In February 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic seized the planet, disrupting normal life, and taking more than five million lives and counting as it spread despite humanity’s best efforts to limit its reach. Then, there was fire. In the summer of 2021, in the paradisal setting

Maybe, but not in my lifetime. Canada’s colonial mentality, although showing its age, has brought so much wealth to those who adhere to its cultural imperatives that this mentality is not going to be tossed aside anytime soon.  To be Canadian is to be trapped in a historical narrative of

WTF? What are you talking about? You heard me right. Let’s keep them in the ground. The choice is clear. If we continue to extract and burn them, dumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in the process, we risk rendering the earth inhospitable for human life. Or,

These are trying times. A global pandemic has forced millions of people to re-evaluate their priorities and rethink the way their lives are structured. Yet, in the midst of the tumult, Canadians have been forced to go to the polls to elect a new government even though the government in

Not having written a blog post for a couple of years, I knew that it might be difficult to get into the flow. I wanted to break my silence. I thought I would write a post about climate change and that I would take my usual tone of the disgruntled

What do Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have in common? Both leaders actually lost the popular vote in the last elections. However, they both became the leader of their respective countries due to the distortions of the voting systems used in each one. In the 2015 electoral campaign, Justin Trudeau

Normally, I find Canadian General Elections to be rather boring. For 150 plus years, Canadians have been governed by either the red party or the blue party. Now, since neither party can attract 40% of the popular vote, the election is decided by which party will receive the benefit of

A Group of Canadians Watching the Leaders Debate Same as it ever was . . .Same as it ever was . . .(Once In A Lifetime, The Talking Heads) It’s a moody Manitoba mornin’Nothing’s really happening, it never does (Moody Manitoba Morning, The Bells) Having lived for almost all my

At long last, people have realized that the politics of economic growth are conceived to enrich the top 0.1% of the population at the expense of the bottom 99%. However, one huge question remains: how do you fix the system? The answer is that you have to change the electoral

Desperate times require desperate measures. The privilege of the old stock citizens, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is being threatened in the USA, the UK, and in Canada. It’s just a question of demographics.  Low birth rates combined with the arrival of many immigrants from around the world, in other words, people

These are interesting times in North America. There are general elections looming in both Canada and the United States. In 2019, Canadians will decide if they want to continue to be led by Justin Trudeau, and in 2020 Americans will decide if they want to be led by Donald Trump. 

The purpose of government is not merely to afford pleasure to those who govern, but to make life tolerable for those who are governed.       Bertrand Russell Growing up an hour’s drive from the Canadian- American border, I have always been somewhat in awe of what Americans can do when

plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (the more things change, the more the stay the same) That’s pretty much how I feel about living in Canada in the second decade of the twenty-first century.  Yes, this country has seen a lot of changes, from the building of the trans-national

So America, it all comes down to this: the whole world waits with bated breath while you decide which of your more despised Presidential candidates loses the election.  I think it’s safe to say that those of us living outside of the USA hope that Trump loses.  After all, if