I feel obligated to write about this because it squats squarely in my basket of interests, touching on politics, belief, science, ethics, media… If I didn’t post something about this I’d be signaling gross indifference to the enterprise of blogging. Concern in the science community shouldn’t be surprising. By comparison, while we don’t expect the agriculture [...]
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Disappointed but not surprised by the report that came out yesterday (summary, via). I had a bit invested in this since I wrote about the expected proposals back in January. At first glance I would seem to be proven wrong because I suggested that London risks being marginalized if we don’t assume more responsibility for our [...]
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Before I even get to Canada I want to make sure it’s understood how critical the next year or two will be. I consider myself fairly well informed and I regularly find myself having to be reminded of the seriousness of things on the global stage. Foreign policy has been pushed a bit to the side [...]
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First a word on the US situation, which is a little farther advanced than it is in Canada. This is Jeffrey Sachs – not the most conservative economist — via Dan Drezner and Mark Thoma: The most obvious problem with the stimulus package is that it has been turned into a fiscal piñata – with a mad scramble for [...]
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I see a controversy on the horizon. It might not seem realistic now, but it could turn into one of those things where, by the time it actually presents itself, it’s too late to do anything about it and your opinion doesn’t even matter (like Wall Street excesses generating the financial crisis). So I’m speculating a [...]
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I woke up with intentions to write about the death of Don Sanderson and the issue of fighting in hockey — not because I had an opinion, but because writing is how I figure things like this out. By the afternoon I started to think it’s silly — not silly that someone died, but silly for the [...]
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I wasn’t comfortable with it until I heard a constitutional expert explain on CBC Newsworld that prorogation is normally used when parliament has an especially large, complex set of legislation to consider, and it’s deemed best for MPs to return to their ridings, meet with their constituents, and look at matters from that perspective. Before [...]
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I’ve finally quieted my mind and collected my thoughts about the events in Ottawa this weekend — just enough to make sense of things by way of juxtaposing an older post on the meaning of integrity in politics. In that post I held up Barack Obama as a paradigm of integrity, arguing that: Having established a [...]
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Continued… but I don’t even want to think about the political aspect of this – this disgrace — which seems to be a race to the bottom… Below the fold are some more very rough remarks about economic stimulus, carrying on from my previous discussion about economics-as-being-about-more-than-money.
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It really pisses me off. In many ways I favour the Conservatives’ apparent pragmatism and restraint, but all of their statements have a peculiar, pungent aroma that I can’t quite identify, that makes me distrustful. The other parties are no better; in some ways they’re worse. Paul Wells expressed all this again yesterday in his characteristic way: The immediate post-election period is [...]
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I wasn’t sure if I’d write anything on Remembrance Day, but then I saw this National Post editorial: Still, we risk dishonouring those Canadians who have gone to war to defend our nation and its values when we seek to revise our history and downplay our contributions to wars fought in the name of freedom. [...]
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I didn’t realize it has been ten years until I read Paul Wells this morning. Robert Fulford also looks back. Lately I tend to favour the Globe and Mail a little more. For a few years I didn’t read (or care to read) it at all. But during its first few years I had to read the National [...]
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