Hey Canada, Step Into the 21st Century: Stop Outsourcing Governance of the Nation
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire.…
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Hey Canada, Step Into the 21st Century: Stop Outsourcing Governance of the Nation
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire.…
It Took A Photo of a Child Washed Up on a Beach To Get Canada’s Poltical Class To Shut the Fuck Up About the Economy
Last week’s electoral campaign in Canada took a turn from the banal to matters of importance. Early in the week, we learned that the Canadian economy had contracted for two…
It Took A Photo of a Child Washed Up on a Beach To Get Canada’s Political Class To Shut the Fuck Up About the Economy
Last week's electoral campaign in Canada took a turn from the banal to matters of importance. Early in the week, we learned that the Canadian economy had contracted for two…
The 2015 Ballot Box Question: Who Can I Trust To Do The Right Thing?
The first couple of weeks of the Canadian 2015 General Election are mercifully over and the ballot box question has emerged, largely due to what has happened in the courtroom…
The 2015 Ballot Box Question: Who Can I Trust To Do The Right Thing?
The first couple of weeks of the Canadian 2015 General Election are mercifully over and the ballot box question has emerged, largely due to what has happened in the courtroom…
Canada Embraces Its Watergate Moment And The People Will Decide, Maybe.
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
Canada Embraces Its Watergate Moment And The People Will Decide, Maybe.
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
When It Comes To Boring Nobody Does It Better Than Canada
A Group of Canadians Watching the Leaders Debate Same as it ever was . . .Same as it ever was . . . (Once In A Lifetime, The Talking Heads)…
When It Comes To Boring Nobody Does It Better Than Canada
A Group of Canadians Watching the Leaders DebateSame as it ever was . . .Same as it ever was . . . (Once In A Lifetime, The Talking Heads)It's a…
The Big Bumble: The 2015 Canadian General Election
Sometimes, I think Canada should change it’s name to Bumbleslavia, a land in which people bumble along and where bumbles are common and appreciated by the people: “Did you see…
Greece Has Been Shat Upon With the Dung of the Devil
Over the last few weeks, I could not but help notice the parallel narratives unrolling with the Pope on tour in South America condemning the moral bankruptcy of our present…
Pope Francis Captures the Moral High Ground Much to the Dismay of His Detractors
Way to go Frank! You really knocked that one out of the park. I never thought that I’d be writing about an encyclical from you, but what you had to…
Fuck the Job Count! What People Need Are Living Wages!
Every month the charade continues. Governments in North America announce the latest labour market statistics, hoping to pull the wool over the population’s eyes, making them believe that things are…
The Politics of Greed
Politics in North America often hides behind the veil of economic discourse. Underneath the veil is the unmitigated pursuit of self-interest, the maximization of personal gain. As humans, however, we…
Let’s Put Politics Where It Belongs: The Political Economy
The advantage of being able to speak and read in several languages is that you get to see how different cultures divide up the world, a phenomenon commonly referred to…
It’s the Stupid Economy
Back at the end of the previous century, before the advent of browsers and search engines, during the 1992 presidential campaign in the United States, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James…
Has Canada Become a Post-Democratic Petro State?
Tell me it isn’t so Joe. No can do. Sadly, over the last 40 years Canada has morphed into a mere shadow of its former self, a nation where prosperity…
Not a Fiscall But a Deficit of Empathy That Spreads Misery Across the Land
The thing about using the economy as the measure of all things is that in doing we institutionalize unbridled greed as the guiding force for our society. It takes a…
There Are No Selmas in Cyberspace
Today is Martin Luther King day in the United States, a civic holiday, and the only one dedicated to the memory of a black man. This would be a good…