Category Archives: Columns

Looking back to the future

Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration …   Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I’m thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada.
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Bomber’s body gone at last

At last the Americans managed to get rid of the corpse of Boston Marathon alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Somebody furnished an unmarked grave. But the whole issue makes me think we’ve gone nuts.
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The Top 5, May 11

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B.C. a rebel at heart

Despite its laid-back, progressive reputation as the environmentalist ‘left coast’, full of hippies and unionists and aboriginal activists and public servants, British Columbia is Tory territory federally. And not Red Tory either. Just one more way the province is different, … Continue reading

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What I hate is the fakery

You know what I hate about politics? OK, that could be a well with no bottom. But a bucket borrowed from the late Daniel Boorstin just helped me haul up an especially slimy lump from way down deep. Specifically, Raymond … Continue reading

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