conservatism

It took me most of my young life to figure this out. After growing up as a precocious political junkie I got jaded pretty early. I grew up in a rural conservative family but somehow, deep-down I’m an urban technophile who often hopes there’s no problem that walkable neighbourhoods and Twitter hashtags can’t solve. In [...]

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Old Folks Need to Grow Up

by Brian on 04-05-2009

in civics,media

If I wasn’t turning 31 in a few weeks I might be inclined to say, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Actually, come to think of it, don’t trust me — don’t trust anyone under 30 either — because everybody is wrong sometimes, and everything is wrong eventually.  Fortunately we don’t have to trust people and [...]

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Where Canada Stands

by Brian on 10-17-2008

in canada,civics

In an interesting position. This article in the Washington Post says what we already know about ourselves: The main reason for optimism here is the banking system. Experts here note that Canadian banks are more tightly regulated, more liquid and less highly leveraged. Instead of being highflying investment banks, they tend to operate in a [...]

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Andrew Coyne seems angry: You need Conservative MPs to make what happen? To ensure that “more” is done in the way of “delivering” for the GTA. Want more passport offices and bridges? Vote Conservative. This is the Prime Minister of Canada talking, you understand. The candidates for President of the United States debate the shape [...]

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