Plague Update: Was Hoping Not To Do More Of These
Moe’s ending of restrictions and having the Roughriders hold super-spreader events has put the province into a pickle. School hasn’t even re-opened yet, and the numbers are already approaching the…
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Alberta needs a new Lougheed for a new era
Fifty years ago, Alberta entered the modern era. With the provincial election of August, 1971, Albertans dismissed Social Credit, their governing party for 36 years, and elected the Progressive Conservatives.…
A Bad Pandemic Candidate Vetting Fail
I keep saying that this election that we are now in is one that will be a good case study somedays, because of the unique circumstances that it’s happening in,…
MB Podcast – The Starting Line
The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, Cam & Alise talk the start of the 44th General Election, the attempts at wedge politics…
If You Are Going To Vote, Read This
Things are changing rapidly in the world, but as of this moment, we can say a few things about the major political parties of the Western world, with reasonable certainty.…
“Our Platform Language Stands”
During an election everyone has their strategies, their bases, their places for growth and the people they are trying to attract. Those competing priorities can create some very awkward and…
A Vote Compass surprise
Being a sucker for surveys, I couldn’t resist the Vote Compass survey on the CBC News website. The survey purports to locate your position on the political landscape relative to…
The Sideshow Heads to Cochrane
In all election campaigns most of the attention is paid to the “main event”; the major national parties, their campaigns and platforms, who’s up and who’s down, all that good…
Stressed? Read This. Amygdala Highjacking – A Few Brief Thoughts
When under great stress, or when in great fear, our biological fight or flight response is triggered strongly, the amygdala is highjacked, which then highjacks our frontal cortex and our…
The Morning After: The Bluenose Surprise That’s Shaking #Elxn44
I’ve had a lot to say here in this place about the dangers of going to an election right now for the Federal Liberals and why they should have continued…
The Attention You Don’t Want
During an election campaign it can be very difficult to get the medias attention, especially for smaller parties. It’s hard to get your “message of the day” covered, to get…
A Worrying Trend
The federal election campaign and yesterday felt like the first “normal” campaign day, which is mostly because it was. It was a day of campaign announcements, whistle stops and events,…
Talking the Collapse of Afghanistan with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the collapse of Afghanistan, the remarks by…
Alberta’s debt to the Maldives
As humanity continues to heat the planet, there are winners and losers. Let me rephrase that. Ultimately nobody wins; in the long term if global warming isn’t halted it will…
Talking the First Day of #Elxn44 on CTV News Channel
Today I joined CTV News Channel with Marcia MacMillan along with Kate Harrison and Marcel Wieder. We talked about the start of the Federal Election, how the parties faired on…
Voting strategically in an election we don’t need
So we are to have an unnecessary election. Didn’t we make our views clear enough in 2019? We didn’t give one of the parties a majority because we didn’t buy…
And We’re Off!
Well folks, it’s now official and let’s put aside any of the pretense about it; Canada’s 44th General Election is on! #BREAKING: After months of speculation, the 2021 Canadian federal…
Kafkaesque?
It might be called Kafkaesque, that this talk focuses on bureaucracy and its tyrranical absurdities, while Kafka’s most important contribution was, not simply to highlight the tyrrany of bureaucracy, but…
Unreadiness to Govern, Unmasked
Tomorrow morning it will be confirmed, but it looks like we’re heading to the 44th general election in Canada, right into the growing teeth of a 4th wave of the…
On Puritan-Capitalism: Money As The Measure Of All Things
The mechanistic materialist world view, which the West, beginning with Europe, adopted a mere 400 years ago, and then exported through economic, financial, military and cultural colonialism and neocolonialism to…