How many refugees should we accept?
Joseph Stalin once said that if you kill one person it’s murder, if you kill a million it’s a statistic. The old psychopath, who knew a lot about killing one…
September 2015
Syria’s Ultimate Conflict: the comic
Yes, I haven’t posted in a while. Reasons. And I don’t usually share stuff from click bait sites, but this one is good. News drama, history, context, and it’s a…
Election 2015: X marks the spot
Here’s my current expectation of the possible seat wins around one week before the October 19 election. I’ve added an X – to mark the right hand border of my…
On anticipated departures
With Canada’s federal election still a month and a half away, it’s obviously too early to be concluding that it will end the career of any of our current political…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Louise Arbour’s interview with The House includes both her compelling criticisms of both the Cons’ terror bill, and the Libs’ failure to…
Stuff Happens, week 34: One little boy changes everything.
The Syrian refugee crisis has convulsed Europe for weeks now, while making only the tiniest dent in the North American conscience. But that all changed this weeks thanks to one…
Stuff Happens, week 34: One little boy changes everything.
The Syrian refugee crisis has convulsed Europe for weeks now, while making only the tiniest dent in the North American conscience. But that all changed this weeks thanks to one…
Western Adventurism, Refugees, and the Rise of the New (old) Right. . .
It is not surprising that political discourse becomes extremely divisive in difficult times. In the modern era in the West, the most obvious example of this divisiveness was seen in…
On the rule of law
It’s for the best that the Cons’ use of secret orders-in-council is drawing some further attention. But the problem goes further than the Libs’ response seems to suggest – even…
An Arboreal Barometer
Some of them are mute witnesses to over three thousand years of history. Towering and majestic, some as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the giant sequoia, native to a…
Back to School: "Frackademia" Alive and Well at U.S. Universities, Says New Report
The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) has published a timely “back to school” report concluding that “frackademia” is alive and well at U.S. universities. While only focusing on the people and…
Mulcair: Canada’s pseudo Johnny Appleseed.
Tom Mulcair’s role for Canada’s New Democrats seems to include wearing a forced smile and offering band-aid solutions to problems. Other than his strange arithmetic about day care, he is…
Stephen Harper and the Disastrous State of the Con Campaign
When Stephen Harper launched the longest election campaign since 1926, he no doubt hoped that by now he would have crushed his political enemiesThrown them under the wheels of his…
A Study in Tyranny (Part 3)
2 Men & A Country : Harpers Nemesis A guest post by Pamela Mac NeilThe laws you have are a direct result of the Government you have. Whether they remain…
Alexander’s Ragtime Rant
http://www.tvrage.com/ Politics, Robin Sears writes, is about dialogue: Successful politicians know how to listen, to respond respectfully and through that dialogue, learn. Some Canadian politicians’ increasing fascination with steely message…
KCCCC Day 35: 19,000 followers!
Take that, Messrs. Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau! I’m in your rear view mirror, now!
Fortuna: Why Plans Fail
Niccolo Machiavelli used two words in his book, The Prince, to describe the factors that influenced events. In English these are virtue or character (virtu), fortune or chance (fortuna). Only…
On judicious outrage
Following up on this post, let’s take a look at the flip side of the possibility that political parties can help themselves out significantly by taking umbrage with competitors’ treatment…