The Twit and the Future of Democracy in the U.S.
With a blog focused upon democracy my regular readers may have been wondering how I could not write about the real and ongoing threat to democracy occurring to the south…
February 2017
The Focus Shifts To Europe
Elections are coming in Europe. That’s where — not in the United States — we will see the first reverberations of the Trump Effect. Six months ago, it looked like…
petra
Petra is breathtaking. It is unique, certainly in my experience, but likely in all the world. Imagine an extremely unusual and beautiful natural site, with unique rock formations, colours, and…
petra
Petra is breathtaking. It is unique, certainly in my experience, but likely in all the world. Imagine an extremely unusual and beautiful natural site, with unique rock formations, colours, and…
The New Founding Fathers – Mk. 2
Americans love their Constitution and they revere their “founding fathers” which makes it all the more curious that they’re devoutly supporting the ultimate charlatan who wants to relieve them of…
Opposition parties strangely quiet as Alberta Finance Minister stops the ABC Sector gravy train
PHOTOS: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci considers a reporter’s question during Friday’s news conference (screenshot). Below: Alberta Workers Compensation Board CEO Guy Kerr and Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Jim Ellis.…
‘He’s a Liar’: Why British Columbians Are So Over Justin Trudeau
This article originally appeared on iPolitics. The man sitting at the head of the table has a face that should be on money. It is calm, etched with wrinkle lines…
‘He’s a Liar’: Why British Columbians Are So Over Justin Trudeau
This article originally appeared on iPolitics. The man sitting at the head of the table has a face that should be on money. It is calm, etched with wrinkle lines…
Riding the Geezer Train to Nowhere
Sometimes You Have to Know When to Let Go. If the Tories want to reclaim a respectable share of the youth vote before the Boomer generation dies off, they’re barking…
Feb. 25: Hitler has never left us.
What can one say? Trump is a Hitler. And I don’t say that lightly. He appeals to racism. He poses as the man of the people while he really does…
It’s Forum. But.
It’s Forum. That’s the first thing. Election is far away, that’s another. Wynne’s been counted out before, plenty of times. Seat projections are voodoo science. Media polls are worth what…
Feb. 25: Hitler has never left us.
What can one say? Trump is a Hitler. And I don’t say that lightly. He appeals to racism. He poses as the man of the people while he really does…
more reflections on free speech
I’m still slowly reading a big book about 17th century arguments for and against religious tolerance. It is called John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture by John Marshall. I’m…
Bill Maher’s Hypocrisy On Paedophilia
Bill Maher thinks he did a great public service by inviting Milo Yiannopolous on his Real Time programme on HBO where the alt.right troll got into it for defending man/boy…
Crazy-Making Cancer Treatment
I believe my doctors mean well, I really do, but their behaviour is not dissimilar from the crazy-making type of abuse wherein the abuser keeps telling a different story until…
Coyne Pans the Manning Conference
Andrew Coyne sees Canada’s Conservatives as heading down a dark road, one that may (hopefully) consign them to years in the political desert. He offers, as proof, this year’s Manning…
Crazy-Making Cancer Treatment
I believe my doctors mean well, I really do, but their behaviour is not dissimilar from the crazy-making type of abuse wherein the abuser keeps telling a different story until…
The Age of Angst
I grew up in the 50s and 60s, the height of the Cold War. That was the time when the MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction paradigm hadn’t yet quite taken…
Saturday Photo: Winter Seating–But Not for Long
Last Sunday Lukas and Thomas built an igloo in the backyard, and the snow was knee deep in the parks. Not much chance that anyone would have been tempted to…
Saunderson shirks his responsibility to taxpayers
The town’s budget is by far the single most important thing elected officials have to manage. It’s complicated, affects everyone in town, reaches into every department, ranges through services, user…