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…
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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…
The Good and Bad of Political Advertising
Well here we are, in our last 24 hours or so of federal election-less peace, before we are plunged into the 44th general election in Canada just as the fourth…
Jail the Unvaccinated
In a recent opinion piece in Macleans Magazine, Scott Gilmore wrote what I expect many vaccinated Canadians felt about those who still refuse to get vaccinated and help end this…
On Fads and Pop Culture Gurus
Interesting discussion here (linked below), on the power of ritual, the positive functions of mythology, and the value of mentors. One negative point: the cold immersion fad is rooted in…
The Biggest Political News of the Day
We are having a baby!!!! @gurkirankaur_ and I are so excited for this new adventure! pic.twitter.com/ULyw8EfQnO — Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) August 12, 2021 Congrats to Jagmeet Singh and his wife.…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2021
On Friday, August 6th, Winnipeggers joined in a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are held each…
MB Podcast – So We’re Gonna Do This, Aren’t We?
The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, Cam & Alise talk the reports of a Federal Election being called on Sunday, the last-minute…
The Fundamentals Of History
(The following thoughts were written in response to a podcast, linked below.) I liked this podcaster’s treatment of the Druids, which was very good. However… This talk (linked below) asks…
Some Muscular Truth
It likely won’t shock you if I point out that we’re about to go into the 17th month of the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point, pointing out the latest new…
From Cuba to Myanmar, the military as enemy of democracy
Heavily dependent on tourism, the Cuban economy has been hit hard by the pandemic’s restrictions on travel. The loss of Canadian tourists is a particularly heavy blow as in recent…
The #Elxn44 Question That Should Be Easy To Answer
Here we are in the middle of August, and it increasingly looks like we’re heading into a federal election. Forget the fact that the current government doesn’t have a legitimate…
Free Your Mind: Escaping The Mental Prison Of Cognitive Bias
As Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” People who cannot admit that they were wrong, turn their minds to stone, turn their brains off, and…