Big news this week is Pierre Poilievre’s impromptu visit to a far-right protest about the usual stuff. Nobody cared what the protest was about; the discussion was about the wisdom or stupidity Poilievre’s interaction with the radicals. The Background In order to understand what’s going on here, we need to dig a bit into the…
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Politics
Budget ’24: Has Trudeau Finally Grown Up?
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My usual readers will be aware of my tepid support for Justin Trudeau. He is too much like so many “leaders” I have come across in my wide and varied career: those who have “earned” their position through an accident of birth and a cult of personality. However, the past few months have been surprisingly…
Politics
Let’s Hit the Twit
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Stay Short and to the Point I wouldn’t bother to post this, but what played out this week is exactly what I was trashing last week: Politicking. For the past week the Leader of the Opposition has pronounced proudly, over and over, his threats as to what he was going to do if the Liberals…
Politics
Reality Strikes the Right
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Images courtesy of Wikipedia and CTV As I have written before, the right wing in Britain, Canada, and USA is in crisis. Due mainly to our first-past-the-post election systems, right-wing parties have been polarized into a position where in order to win an election, the economic conservatives (who want to run their businesses without government…
Politics
The Problems of the Conservative Party Should Worry Us All.
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Images courtesy of CBC and Wikipedia Okay, left-wing people are celebrating the fall of Jason Kenney. Someone who didn’t do his job to protect his people from COVID, who sold out to Big Oil and made the province vulnerable to the economic consequences climate change, has been punished. Good. Serves him right. I’m not…
Election Watch, Social Commentary
They Just Don’t Care
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A lot of questions were being asked last week about how Jason Kenney’s apologetic admission of fault for Alberta’s COVID problems could affect Erin O’Toole’s chances in Monday’s election. There was a lot of dancing around the issue, but no one I heard was brave enough to state the obvious; neither of these men should…
Election Watch, Social Commentary
A First Step Towards Democracy
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Since we’re in the middle of an election, it wouldn’t hurt to step back and take a look at the bigger picture, to see where the short-term promises of the competing parties are leading us. Besides around in the usual circles, that is. What is “Better Democracy?” Good government is supposed to create the…
Social Commentary
The Two Conservative Parties
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Yet again I find an internet meme that reveals faulty logic and a mistaken view of what’s really going on. This time it’s from a left-leaning pundit. If you ever wonder how the progressives can be a cause of our problems, read on. And it isn’t only the Americans who have these problems. Canada’s…
Politics, Social Commentary
Unmasked Bullies
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Many of us are getting tired of the idiots who refuse to go along with plans to minimize the COVID-19 outbreak. Why won’t they wear masks? We can’t believe all the fake cries about freedom, religious belief, and their rights. Nor should we. These people are trying to create heroes of themselves, but in actuality,…
Politics
COVID-19 and Politics
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Up until this point I have had little to say on the topic of dealing with COVID-19, because, quite frankly, there was not enough information available to make any decisions. The medical experts were tap-dancing madly, keeping their feet moving to keep their balance, and I was happy to follow their lead. During the First…