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Canada Elects: The Alternative North America Goes to the Polls by David T. Jones
(American Diplomacy) In case you hadn’t noticed, the election is over.  To be sure, not the U.S. national federal election that the world has been watching to the extent that it is virtually a global election.
But on Tuesday, October 14, the Canadian […]

John Moore: Farewell to Stephen Harper, master tactician
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Talking Themselves to Death
It hasn’t been a good year for talk radio. In spite of their blustering and arm flailing right wing talk radio hosts failed in their efforts to undo John McCain’s quest for the Republican nomination. Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” a mischievous effort to drive registered Republicans to Hilary Clinton in order to […]

Fibs, Frauds and Whoppers

How the debate over global warming ever became an angry partisan affair, I will never know. Somehow it has become a hard right talking point that global warming is […]

Thanks to John Moore for this contribution which accurately reflects the frustrations of a number of Wednesday Nighters - not to mention other members of the grassroots non-establishment.
15 November 2007
David Goutor, Toronto Star Comment
In the discussions of Stéphane Dion’s struggles in Ottawa, one factor has been consistently overlooked: the grassroots of the Liberal party. […]

30 October 2007
National Post
Apologies, but I am a semanticist and a pedant. It genuinely irks me that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Technically, to indicate that something would not burn one would have to label it “uninflammable.” And so it is with the term “reasonable accommodation.”
The debate over just how much newcomers need […]

Giving Stéphane Dion the soap-opera treatment
Is Dion a loser? Or is that just what the media tells us?
John Moore, Special to the National Post
October 20, 2007
The media love to imagine that politics is a soap opera. In order to make the narrative of the day work, they often have to tweak the characters, nudging them […]

Spinning John Tory’s trouble
John Moore, National Post
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007
History may be written by the victors, but the vanquished always try to get in their licks. When it became clear last week that John Tory and his Progressive Conservatives weren’t going to achieve their dream of a majority government in Ontario, his supporters cranked […]

Canadian elites’ judicial “blind spot” for those we admire

People tend to forgive those sins and sinners with which they can identify. The families of drunk drivers rally around their loved ones when they are on trial. “It was a small mistake”, they argue, “out of character and something anyone else could easily have done.” Were […]

27 December 2006
We have written, sent and posted our seasonal end-of-year Message and invite anyone we have inadvertently left off the Send List to savor the page, the photos and the sentiments therein.
It is difficult for the author to decide on the theme for this evening’s missive. Saccharine sentiment has overwhelmed us these past […]