June 2019

June 22: A Quiet Day – as they go.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-climate-change-1.5183329 https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/the-national-climate-change-courts-1.5182876 CBC news has been promising much fuller coverage of climate change – and so far it’s delivering it. That’s very different from our privately owned news media._______________________________________________________________…

The Price Of Folly

When Saigon fell in 1975, the head of the C.I.A. station sent out his last cable from there. He quoted Sanatayana’s admonition that those who refuse to learn from history…

PR Isn’t Enough

Advocates of proportional representation (PR) make a powerful case. They claim that our current electoral system, first-past-the-post (FPTP), is not democratic. They are right. More often than not a political…

Two Votes

You may remember back in May we saw the results from the provincial election in Newfoundland and Labrador, a result that was historic and a surprise. The governing Liberals of…

Ford Fight

Most experts have been predicting that the upcoming Federal election is going to be a wild and intense. There is a lot of uncertainty and a few wildcards in this…

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