Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Human Fallibility
I’m just going to share verbatim a letter that I just sent to a few friends. I think it is worth giving it some thought. The letter expresses my comments…
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Talking the Resignation of Dr. Fisman from the Ontario COVID Science Table 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 resignation of Dr. David Fisman from…
Talking the First Week of #Elxn44 on CTV News Channel
Saturday I joined CTV News Channel with Akshay Tandon for the “Political Pulse” panel along with David Zimmer and Marisa Maslink. We reviewed the first week on the campaign trail,…
Talking Twitter Scolding the Liberals on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Will Stewart. We discussed the start of week two of the…
Would-be Jeopardy! host becomes a future Jeopardy! question
As you know, there were three big stories in the world this past week. First, Justin Trudeau’s “snap” election call that everyone saw coming for months. Second, the collapse of…
The Greatest of Philosophers
Who are the greatest of philosophers? Ask 20 scholars, and they will give you 20 different answers. The list I would offer would not be appreciated by most academic philosophers,…
Ten Years Ago Today
During the 17 months of the COVID pandemic that we’ve lived so far, there have been so many moments when so many of us have commented that time seems to…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – #Elxn44 Week One
The latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Susan Smith, Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair is now out. In this episode…
Leader vs Influencers: A Case Study Of Elon Musk
Top influencers does not equate to real leaders. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao were top influencers, and they were all deranged. As for content of contribution, Musk’s boaring project misses…
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…
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…
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…