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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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. 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…