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North American ‘leaders’, take heed. Thanks to Alex Himelfarb for retweeting this: Two inspiring minutes https://t.co/9JclWqc5Eu — alex himelfarb (@alexhimelfarb) November 4, 2019 Recommend this Post
North American ‘leaders’, take heed. Thanks to Alex Himelfarb for retweeting this: Two inspiring minutes https://t.co/9JclWqc5Eu — alex himelfarb (@alexhimelfarb) November 4, 2019 Recommend this Post
Jason Kenney is up in arms. Liberal energy policies are why Encana has headed south, he says. But, Alan Freeman writes, you could have seen this coming long ago: Encana…
Protesters rip an electoral poster of president Jovenel Moïse during a demonstration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 6, 2015. Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters. In recent months, Haitians have demonstrated…
The Quebec National Assembly seems to be constantly against immigration. Combined with the ill-disguised bigotry behind the Bill 21 restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols, it is sending a…
With inequality increasing throughout the world she jurisdictions are fighting back by raising the minimum wage. Business owners must pay employees at least the minimum wage set by the government,…
Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe: Canada’s Three Wexiteers, all clamouring for something that they don’t own.
Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Newfoundland and Labrador got a taste of…
“Wexit” is dangerous, but not because it’s ever likely to come to pass. The economic case for Prairie separatism is so obviously lame — because of what’s happened to the…
David Climenhaga from AlbertaPolitics.ca joins Dave and Adam on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the cuts in Alberta’s provincial budget and the United Conservative Party’s growing list…
…how could they not be? Read Rosie, who is at her passionate best, here. Oh, and she quotes what the Pope and the relevant Ontario minister have to say. Heed…
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact…
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
Maybe it’ll even work. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to meet with opposition leaders as the Liberals start to map out how they will govern in a minority Parliament…
In his book On Tyranny historian Timothy Snyder sets out twenty lessons from the 20th century to help democracies resist the “the usurpation of power by a single individual or…
For the first time in 28 years of teaching, I approve of the new guru being brought to the masses from on high. Immediately, from just the first few seconds…
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig was a fascinating and very readable look at how oral contraceptives — otherwise…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Edgardo Sepulveda writes about Chile’s popular revolt against austerity and inequality – while at the same time pointing out how Canada is…
The truly witty political put down is a lost art form. Robin Sears writes: “We have witnessed an astonishing decline in political wit in recent years. It has been replaced…
Cancel culture, so-called, interests me. Two reasons. First reason: Barack Obama decried it recently, and what he said made a lot of sense. Here’s part of what he said: “This…