Month: October 2015

No post-election post from me this morning. I could say I was waiting for the hullabaloo to die down, but in truth I was too wasted after 10 hours on my feet directing traffic at an elementary school polling station, then four hours counting ballots from the Advance Poll where I worked. So perhaps I’m more…

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This week’s developments in the election campaign teach us why Americans love baseball. The game consists of innumerable small spurts of action, leaving interminable chunks of time to be filled with discussions of statistics and left-handed-batter-against-right-handed-pitcher-type of strategy. This is the part of the campaign when candidates have said the same sound bites over and…

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This article is not supposed to be definitive in detail. Like, for example, the budget section of a party’s election platform. Look at it rather as a general discussion of the choices available to government in the spending of taxpayer dollars during a recession. Okay, let’s say I’m the federal government and we’re in a…

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The problem with the NDP strategy in this election is that they tried to be something they are not: centrist. This may have sounded like a good idea two months ago, when they thought that simply by advertising a balanced budget they could appeal to the soft Liberals, even some soft Conservatives, and not offend…

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