This meme appeared on Facebook last week. Perhaps it isn’t a coincidence that at the same time in my local paper, The Delta Teacher’s Association posted an add saying “Cancel the Foundation Skills Assessment Tests.” The B. C. government still believes in testing children against norms of age and grade, and teachers have been protesting…
Social Commentary
Banning More Than Books
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Original image by Cezary p at pl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8305204 There Are Books that Should Be Banned Before you go all Freedom of Expression on me, think about it. None of the freedoms that we cherish are universal or omnipotent. There are always instances where people simply can’t be allowed to say certain things…
Politics
Abolish the Monarchy? No Need
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Okay, I was holding off the inevitable discussion about abolishing the monarchy, out of respect for the most popular monarch of the past century. However, the news media have jumped the gun by a couple of days, so I don’t feel too bad about raising the topic, especially since I’m not attacking the system in…
Politics
Pierre Poilievre: A Nasty Echo from the South
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Photo courtesy of CBC Canada’s conservatives showed themselves half a step behind America’s spiral into populism with the selection of Pierre Poilievre as leader, a man whose main talent is for figuring out what everybody wants to hear and promising it to them, whether it’s possible or not. When Poilievre started his acceptance speech with,…
Social Commentary
Lean and Mean Employers in the Post-COVID Age
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There is a very successful businessman in British Columbia, and the story goes that at his car dealership every month he fired the salesman with the lowest sales. He rationalized that he was doing that person a favour; if they weren’t suited to the job, the sooner they found out, the better for both employee…
Politics, Social Commentary
Nova Scotia Political Circus
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I had not been following the Nova Scotia massacre inquiry. On purpose. As with any unforeseen disaster, there is supposed to be an inquiry to find out what worked, what didn’t, and make suggestions to be sure it never happens again. The benefit to the victims is that it shows that everyone cares, and the…
Politics
Who Owns Our Resources?
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I spent some time in Alberta last week, enjoying interesting conversations with my oil-dependent friends. One particular interchange is worth noting. Who Owns What? We were talking about subsidies to the Oil Patch, and I noted in passing that “Nobody has 100% ownership of the country’s resources. The province doesn’t own them outright, and the…
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The Truth About Anti-Inflamatories
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I’ve been following this idea for a while, now. It started out with a simple question about something that didn’t seem to fit. The data I have now collected leads me to the conclusion that the drug companies are using a disinformation campaign that leads to the misuse of some common over-the-counter drugs. I don’t…
Social Commentary
Health Care Crisis
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Since the beginnings of the human race, there have been the givers and the takers. The takers have always used the nurturing qualities of the givers to take advantage of them. This ancient tradition continues to this day, showing up most recently in the imminent collapse of our medical system. Historically: Canada pretends to have…
Social Commentary
The Pope’s Apology: How Did It Go?
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For the last two weeks, Canadian media have been full of the Pope’s apology visit to our Indigenous population. Which is as it should be. Considering how many decades their plight has occurred completely off the radar of the majority of Canadians, this hardly makes up the difference, but it’s a good start. I thought…