Politics and its Discontents

As we move with both hope and trepidation into 2024, here are a few reflections, through a Canadian lens, on what happened this year, as rec...

In the movie, Forrest Gump famously replied when asked if he was stupid, "Stupid is as stupid does." It is advice American voters ...

  It is hardly a revelation to say that words have power. They can delight, inform, edify, inspire and destroy. Unfortunately, it is the the...

A friend sent me the following, Stephen Fry reading a letter from musician Nick Cave about the nature of creativity and how ChatGPT essenti...

I sometimes think, in my more cynical and dark moments, that our species really has not evolved very much beyond our tribal roots. Examine o...

You have perhaps heard of the Orwellian-named group, Moms For Liberty , whose main mission seems to be to ensconce themselves on school boar...

  H/t Moudakis One has to wonder, given the lack of any real movement on a national pharmacare program, whether Justin Trudeau is gambling o...