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Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The partisan henchmen are marshaling their troops, and one candidate for our affections is, once again, a foreign opportunist in the goofy ads that loop the speciality channels of daytime ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in General | No Comments »
Somewhere underneath that wall of white, that cement-brick-back-breaking-shovelling-son-of-a-gun-global-warming-denying mass of frozen water, is life. Somewhere underneath it all is a flower. I know, because I planted one before the last ice ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Whenever political scandal flashes his toothy grin at we, the unsuspecting but ever suspicious electorate in this country, assume he’s come to eviscerate the fortunes of one party or another. The ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Like the devil, democracy is in the details as the people of Egypt – their armed forces now firmly ensconced at the peak of power without immediate need of parliamentary ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
Poor, old, frumpy Statistics Canada. It just can’t catch a break. First, federal conservatives take it to the woodshed for daring to “require” Canadians to answer its questions. Now, a report ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Before she resigned abruptly last October, Canada’s former integrity commissioner was accused of bullying, coercion and incompetence. Now Christiane Ouimet refuses to answer the allegations of the auditor-general’s scathing review ... Read more..Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Media, Politics | No Comments »
As the age of “citizen” journalism dawns for every fruitcake in possession of a web log, the New Democratic Party’s deep concern about the incipient threat of “false news” in ... Read more..Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
Human nature always seems to demand that moral certitude infuses any explanation of social, demographic or economic trends. Stuff happens for a reason; and that reason is either explicably good ... Read more..Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Posted in General | No Comments »
Our on-again, off-again romance with the internal combustion engine has taken a decidedly terminal turn for the worse this winter. Our once comely, little Mazda protege now sits all-but-abandoned in ... Read more..Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
As close as they are, allied by language, history and democratic traditions, Canada and the United States often articulate fundamentally different approaches to international relations in times of crisis, as ... Read more..