Politics and its Discontents

Reflections, Observations, and Analyses Pertaining to the Canadian Political Scene

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Elbows Down And Hands Up?

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In the old westerns, bandits would board trains and demand passengers turn over all their money upon pain of death. Everyone complied, the b...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

UPDATE: Whose Country Is It, Anyway?

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  If you have ever watched the movie Whose Life Is it, Anyway? , you will know it is about a man who wants the right to die owing to his qua...
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Monday, July 13, 2026

UPDATED: Walking On Tippy Toes

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  When I was in Grade One, I have a distinct memory of my teacher, a nun of considerable kindness and compassion (unlike many others of her ...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

UPDATED: It's Happened Again

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  I'm sad to report that, as per my last post , I seem to have fallen victim yet again to the misremembering syndrome. Now it involves t...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Misremembering Things

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  Sometimes I could swear I am living in the world that George Orwell so presciently predicted in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In that wo...
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

They Will Destroy All That Is Holy

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You probably think that the only thing destroying America is the authoritarianism it has embraced, led by an unhinged man and his cadre of o...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Happy Canada Day

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Watching the following should give us all a deeper appreciation of our own country. I can't imagine any of our representatives speaking...
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