A statement for and about the new age
Me: Hey, look, Twitter’s down. Colleague Aaron: Yeah, I know. And I can’t even tweet about it. .
Me: Hey, look, Twitter’s down. Colleague Aaron: Yeah, I know. And I can’t even tweet about it. .
Expect big salmon numbers this summer. The Fraser sockeye run may be as high as 70 million. Yes, 70. And the most important sport angling species, chinook and coho, seem…
For a number of years I toiled in the oil industry as an engineer, and not infrequently lessons I learned from my engineering experience return to inform me in other…
Who should we be supporting as Ukraine and Russia get in a tussle?
A Rob Ford re-election victory in October would be the best thing possible for Canadian democracy. What better way to show our voting system is joke than to have an…
Thirty years of free-market reforms have caused debt and inequality to soar, hollowed out the middle class, hobbled income mobility and produced a global economic meltdown we have yet to…
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When people find themselves nodding in agreement with Andrew Coyne and the National Post, questions ought to be raised. Coyne titled his latest piece “rogue Québec billionaire launching takeover bid,”…
When people find themselves nodding in agreement with Andrew Coyne and the National Post, questions ought to be raised. Coyne titled his piece his latest piece “rogue Québec billionaire launching…
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There’s a story about Hogewey, a village in The Netherlands that’s gone viral on social media recently. It’s a closed village (ie. it’s got walls around it and there’s an…
I am not against free trade per se, it has its benefits in expanding markets and bringing our world together. When people are trading with each other and making money,…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mitchell Anderson compares the results of corporate-friendly Thatcherism to the alternative of public resource ownership and development in the interest of citizens…
There’s a line in one of Horace’s epistles that really caught my eye. In Latin it reads: Utque sacerdotis fugitiuus liba recuso, pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis Horace: Epistles,…
Anyone who reads my blog regularly and has drawn the conclusion that I am anti-capitalism would be completely wrong. I have nothing against business, entrepreneurship, nor corporations, per se. And…
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed "Fair Elections Act", a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed “Fair Elections Act”, a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed "Fair Elections Act", a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…
Over the weekend, I was asked to sign an open letter regarding the proposed “Fair Elections Act”, a seriously-flawed piece of legislation with an Orwellian name. I was happy to…