How do you account for the rise and popularity of Donald Trump?
That was the question posed to me in an email from my younger brother Dave. A good place to start an explanation is the off year election in Nebraska in…
February 2016
How do you account for the rise and popularity of Donald Trump?
That was the question posed to me in an email from my younger brother Dave. A good place to start an explanation is the off year election in Nebraska in…
February 28: Catching up.
There's a great deal I've had to leave out over the past week. (In fact, I'm still leaving some out. Too much is going on in the world.) But here's…
How do you account for the rise and popularity of Donald Trump?
That was the question posed to me in an email from my younger brother Dave. A good place to start an explanation is the off year election in Nebraska in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Steve Roth discusses how inequality and excessive concentration of wealth result in less growth for everybody - even as the researchers finding that…
Who Is To Blame?
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a staunch advocate of critical thinking, to me a foundation for any kind of meaningful life, and essential to a…
Kevin O’Leary and the Con Clowns
I've been trying to ignore the so-called Con Woodstock at the Manning Centre this weekend.Because life is too short.And there are no signs of (intelligent) life there...But maybe the deathly…
Political parties promote populism.
There are people who actually fear for the future of political parties as populism grabs more of the attention in the current American primaries. It is not something you need…
WTO rules against solar industry
In 2014 the United States launcheda WTO case against India's ambitious solar program. The United States claimed that the "buy-local" rules of the first phases of the program, which say…
WTO rules against solar industry
In 2014 the United States launcheda WTO case against India's ambitious solar program. The United States claimed that the "buy-local" rules of the first phases of the program, which say…
"Secularism" in Canada, aka the petition against Bains & Sajjan wearing turbans
Yes, there is a petition against federal cabinet ministers Navdeep Bains and Harjit Sajjan because they wear turbans. No, I don’t believe it comes from white supremacists or Ezra Levent…
"Secularism" in Canada, aka the petition against Bains & Sajjan wearing turbans
Yes, there is a petition against federal cabinet ministers Navdeep Bains and Harjit Sajjan because they wear turbans. No, I don't believe it comes from white supremacists or Ezra Levent…
"Secularism" in Canada, aka the petition against Bains & Sajjan wearing turbans
Yes, there is a petition against federal cabinet ministers Navdeep Bains and Harjit Sajjan because they wear turbans. No, I don't believe it comes from white supremacists or Ezra Levent…
Hillary’s best speech yet
After winning South Carolina in a landslide:
Hillary’s best speech yet
After winning South Carolina in a landslide:
On That Time I Fell and Hurt My Head
I fell on ice a few days ago. My feet were swept clear out from under me, and apparently I injured my brain. At the hospital, they said it's either…
Delusion and deception are complementary
The eyes of British Columbians should be on BC Hydro's Site C project. It is a hydro facility not needed in a province that has had a decade of flat…
The Results of Italy’s 2012 Labour Market Reforms: No Solution to Unemployment
By Gabriele Piazza and Martin Myant of the European Trade Union Institute In June 2012 Italy introduced a package of labour-market reforms. One particularly controversial measure was a change to…
Feb.27: making no sense
Page 1 headline, "Library move to Moncton High makes sense: deputy mayor." The importance of this statement is underlined by a large photo of the deputy mayor standing outside the…