2023-12-15 15:37
Have you ever stood alone in the wilderness, where the only
sounds that break the silence are the breathing of the forest or the distant
roar of the sea? Have you ever felt an unspoken… Read More
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Exposing the cultural myths underlying our political economy
2023-12-07 21:15
The thing about deciding to write a story set in the future
is what to make of the present and how it creates a trajectory of plausible
events, scenarios, and themes projected into the futur… Read More
2023-11-28 15:23
Something is off. I can feel it, and I’m not the only one.
There’s something fundamentally wrong. It’s not at the
periphery. It goes much deeper than that.
It’s as… Read More
2023-11-20 15:44
I started watching the adaptation of Anthony Doerr's All
the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. I loved the novel and am enjoying the
series. One thing I've noticed is that it's pretty obvious… Read More
2023-11-17 14:20
I don't need to imagine a dystopian future. The Anthropocene
epoch is already here. Extreme weather events are happening right now where I
live in South America. Right now, there is a severe… Read More
2023-11-04 18:37
Spectacularly creative and emotionally gripping. The Lost Souls of Guayaquil is an original and thought-provoking novel about life, death, and what defines us in between.This masterful piece… Read More
2021-11-24 17:28
First there was the plague. In February 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic seized the planet, disrupting normal life, and taking more than five million lives and counting as it spread despite hu… Read More
2021-11-01 17:16
Maybe, but not in my lifetime. Canada’s colonial mentality, although showing its age, has brought so much wealth to those who adhere to its cultural imperatives that this mentality is… Read More
2021-09-13 00:29
WTF? What are you talking about?You heard me right. Let's keep them in the ground. The choice is clear. If we continue to extract and burn them, dumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into… Read More
2021-08-31 02:52
These are trying times. A global pandemic has forced millions of people to re-evaluate their priorities and rethink the way their lives are structured. Yet, in the midst of the tumult, Canad… Read More
2021-08-11 21:06
Not having written a blog post for a couple of years, I knew that it might be difficult to get into the flow. I wanted to break my silence. I thought I would write a post about climate chang… Read More
2019-10-22 12:23
What do Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have in common? Both leaders actually lost the popular vote in the last elections. However, they both became the leader of their respective countries… Read More
2019-09-19 22:04
Normally, I find Canadian General Elections to be rather boring. For 150 plus years, Canadians have been governed by either the red party or the blue party. Now, since neither party can attr… Read More
2019-08-07 02:40
At long last, people have realized that the politics of economic growth are conceived to enrich the top 0.1% of the population at the expense of the bottom 99%.However, one huge question rem… Read More
2019-07-26 13:24
Desperate times require desperate measures. The privilege of the old stock citizens, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is being threatened in the USA, the UK, and in Canada. It's just a questio… Read More
2019-07-08 16:06
These are interesting times in North America. There are general elections looming in both Canada and the United States. In 2019, Canadians will decide if they want to continue to be led by J… Read More
2017-05-15 10:29
The purpose of government is not merely to afford pleasure to those who govern, but to make life tolerable for those who are governed. Bertrand RussellGrowing… Read More
2017-05-02 12:27
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change, the more the stay the same)That's pretty much how I feel about living in Canada in the second decade of th… Read More
2016-12-05 13:15
It's hard to believe but it's true. Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States of America. A man who has never held a public office in his life now is Commander and… Read More
2016-11-14 12:41
The fear of democracy has a long history. Plato was mistrustful of the demos, believing it would be subject to bullies and to tyrants. In England, the storming of the Bastille in Franc… Read More
2016-11-09 10:55
One really good thing about not watching television is that it is much easier to pick up on things that the mainstream media does not want you to think about. As this Presidential elec… Read More
2016-11-07 11:58
So America, it all comes down to this: the whole world waits with bated breath while you decide which of your more despised Presidential candidates loses the election. I think it's saf… Read More
2016-08-29 10:34
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of… Read More
2016-07-27 13:59
Well, it's done. The Republican and Democratic Parties have nominated their candidates to become President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Real… Read More
2016-06-27 11:19
The revolt of the elites in the West and most notably in the English-speaking nations has been going on now for the last thirty-five years. Essentially, the members of the moneyed… Read More
2016-06-20 10:40
It is extremely odd to come to the realization that the citizens of the most powerful nation humanity has ever seen, the United States of America, are very much afraid. Indeed, fear pe… Read More
2016-06-12 01:40
William ShakespeareOh my God, what's that smell. It stinks to high heaven. Incredibly, the stench from what's now going on during the US primaries is making it's way all the way… Read More
2016-06-06 11:50
Our Prime Minister Justin. Check out his tattoo. Before coming out and saying so, I had to wait a bit. I had to make sure that the Trudeau-led Liberals were the real thing. … Read More
2016-06-06 11:44
In the Aesop's fable of The Wind and the Sun, the wind and sun argue over which was stronger. A traveller then appears on the road, and to settle their dispute the wind and sun decide t… Read More
2016-04-20 13:15
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth (Lucy Parsons)Well, the Democratic primary in New York has come and gone and Hillary won. What a sur… Read More
2016-04-07 14:31
The poor stay poor, the rich get richThat's how it goesEverybody knows (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)Last weeks publication of the Panama Papers, a leak of more than… Read More
2016-03-29 11:13
Watching the Democratic primaries, it seems unlikely that Bernie will receive the nomination to be the Party's candidate in November's presidential election. Not that he isn't a w… Read More
2016-03-14 12:43
By now you probably noticed that things are not quite right in the land of Uncle Sam. A lot of people are angry and "they ain't gonna take it any more". So much so that the finan… Read More
2016-02-10 11:53
After yesterday's primary result in New Hampshire, it now looks like Bernie Sanders is the real deal, at least with the Millennials, the under 40 crowd. As Bernie says with utter convi… Read More
2016-01-20 13:57
Are Canadians Ready for Democracy?Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau caused quite the stir when he promised that the most recent general election would be the last to use… Read More
2015-10-20 11:55
Four years ago I wrote a similar blog about how the voting system distorts the popular vote and produces a government that the people did not vote for. As is quite often the… Read More
2015-10-19 11:00
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation's governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democrat… Read More
2015-10-16 14:21
Back in the 1993 Canadian General Election the then Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell, in a moment of candor declared that "an election in no time to discuss serious issues," and judgin… Read More
2015-10-16 14:15
Last week's electoral campaign in Canada took a turn from the banal to matters of importance. Early in the week, we learned that the Canadian economy had contracted for two consec… Read More
2015-09-28 10:23
Pretty pathetic if you ask me. During the longest campaign in living memory, suddenly the question of a Muslim woman wearing the niqab (a partial veil that covers the fa… Read More
2015-09-22 11:14
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire. Well… Read More
2015-08-24 10:55
The first couple of weeks of the Canadian 2015 General Election are mercifully over and the ballot box question has emerged, largely due to what has happened in the courtroom during the Mike… Read More
2015-08-17 11:10
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (t… Read More
2015-08-11 11:19
A Group of Canadians Watching the Leaders DebateSame as it ever was . . .Same as it ever was . . . (Once In A Lifetime, The Talking Heads)It's a moody Manitoba mornin'Nothing's really… Read More
2015-08-03 10:56
Sometimes, I think Canada should change it's name to Bumbleslavia, a land in which people bumble along and where bumbles are common and appreciated by the people: "Did you see the latest bum… Read More
2015-07-22 11:00
Over the last few weeks, I could not but help notice the parallel narratives unrolling with the Pope on tour in South America condemning the moral bankruptcy of our present economic system a… Read More
2015-06-25 10:53
Way to go Frank! You really knocked that one out of the park. I never thought that I'd be writing about an encyclical from you, but what you had to say about climate change and h… Read More
2015-05-26 11:41
Every month the charade continues. Governments in North America announce the latest labour market statistics, hoping to pull the wool over the population’s eyes, making them beli… Read More
2015-05-19 11:20
Politics in North America often hides behind the veil of economic discourse. Underneath the veil is the unmitigated pursuit of self-interest, the maximization of personal gain. A… Read More
2015-05-04 11:35
The advantage of being able to speak and read in several languages is that you get to see how different cultures divide up the world, a phenomenon commonly referred to as linguistic relativi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Lately, I have been intrigued by the tale of the Emperor's New Clothes as a modern take on how the vast majority of people behave when it comes to speaking truth to power.The Hans Christian… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is fami… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
You have to admit that when it comes to maintaining their stranglehold on political power in Quebec, the two major parties, the PLQ (the Quebec Liberal Party) and the PQ (the Parti Qué&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yesterday, the outgoing Premier of Quebec, Pauline Marios, requested that the provincial legislature be dissolved, thereby sending Quebecers to the urns for a general election on A… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the Aesop's fable of The Wind and the Sun, the wind and sun argue over which was stronger. A traveller then appears on the road, and to settle their dispute the wind and sun decide t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Having been a political activist trying to get the antiquated first-past-the-post voting system changed for many years, I am delighted to see that the Trudeau-led Liberals have committed the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." (Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz)Ain't it the truth Dorthy. Ain't it the truth.In one of my all time favorite films… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable -- the art of the next best. (Otto von Bismarck)I never thought that I would see this day come. We have a newly elected Prime… Read More
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