Last week's electoral campaign in Canada took a turn from the banal to matters of importance. Early in the week, we learned that the Canadian economy had contracted for two…
The first couple of weeks of the Canadian 2015 General Election are mercifully over and the ballot box question has emerged, largely due to what has happened in the courtroom…
The first couple of weeks of the Canadian 2015 General Election are mercifully over and the ballot box question has emerged, largely due to what has happened in the courtroom…
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
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)…
A Group of Canadians Watching the Leaders DebateSame as it ever was . . .Same as it ever was . . . (Once In A Lifetime, The Talking Heads)It's a…
Sometimes, I think Canada should change it’s name to Bumbleslavia, a land in which people bumble along and where bumbles are common and appreciated by the people: “Did you see…
Over the last few weeks, I could not but help notice the parallel narratives unrolling with the Pope on tour in South America condemning the moral bankruptcy of our present…
Way to go Frank! You really knocked that one out of the park. I never thought that I’d be writing about an encyclical from you, but what you had to…
Every month the charade continues. Governments in North America announce the latest labour market statistics, hoping to pull the wool over the population’s eyes, making them believe that things are…
Politics in North America often hides behind the veil of economic discourse. Underneath the veil is the unmitigated pursuit of self-interest, the maximization of personal gain. As humans, however, we…
The advantage of being able to speak and read in several languages is that you get to see how different cultures divide up the world, a phenomenon commonly referred to…
Back at the end of the previous century, before the advent of browsers and search engines, during the 1992 presidential campaign in the United States, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James…
Tell me it isn’t so Joe. No can do. Sadly, over the last 40 years Canada has morphed into a mere shadow of its former self, a nation where prosperity…
The thing about using the economy as the measure of all things is that in doing we institutionalize unbridled greed as the guiding force for our society. It takes a…
Today is Martin Luther King day in the United States, a civic holiday, and the only one dedicated to the memory of a black man. This would be a good…
George Carlin Many years ago, Thomas Gray penned these famous words that still ring true and apply to the workings of those who own America: Far from the madding crowd’s…
As 2014 comes to a close, a great many of us are keenly aware that something is amiss. The great wars of the previous century are over, yet we are…
Some empires change outward appearance over time. For instance, the British Empire has morphed into the American Empire; the Russian Empire went from the czar to the communists to Vladimir…
