Canada's Debate

Scott is going to chuckle upon seeing this, but I just can’t resist commenting on the latest on developments in the Suaad Hagi Mohamud story. During a bbq held this past week for Progressive Bloggers the discussion of both her and Abdul Razik came up a few times, and the subject invariably came to [...]

Well, I’m going to shut down Canada’s Debate. While my interest in politics has not abated, my enthusiasm for talking about it has. I am engaged in a new business venture with a couple of colleagues and that is going to consume the bulk of my online “bandwidth” for the foreseeable future. [...]

To the surprise of nobody, the Federal government is looking to sell AECL, one of the country’s last remaining profitable Crown Corporations.
The Harper government plans to put Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s nuclear reactor business up for sale.
It’s part of a major restructuring that will also mean private-sector management for AECL’s Chalk River research facility.
AECL [...]

I tend to participate in political discussions with Americans, and as the token-foreigner I often end up playing the role of “International Obligations” cheerleader. I’ve defended the International Criminal Court and emphasized the necessity for a real international Comity on justice and governance…
All of which leaves me in an uncomfortable position. The story [...]

The whole issue of the Reformers leaking Mulroney’s supposed departure from the Conservative party has been interesting pretty much right from the start. The conversation has been predominantly one of the “cracks” it reveals in the Reform-Progressive Conservative Alliance, and justifiably so. Harper wanted to distance his two-headed abortion of a Conservative party [...]

So Harper is trying to wrangle enough hunters and anglers to rally support for cancelling the Long-Gun Registry program. That fact alone isn’t news… the facts on this issue are not up for dispute: yes, it was expensive to start, but the program is now inexpensive to operate, law enforcement wants it but [...]

When exactly did the current economic “situation” stop being a crisis and develop into a full-blown parody? Apparently the titular “head” of Ford Motor Company of Canada thinks that the solution to the stagnating auto-industry is to simply make it easier to buy cars.
The best way to rescue Canada’s battered auto sector is not [...]

I have mixed feelings on the idea of “financial stimulus” actions by government, and neither the time nor the space to fully elucidate on them now. Suffice it to say, there are definitely pros and cons…
Anyways, I’ve seen something alarming in the current discussion of Canada’s stimulus actions. Take for example, this, taken [...]

I’ve written on the subject of justice several times on this site (although not very much recently), and apparently my words have wisdom have yet to achieve universal acceptance; if any of you could help out on that I’d appreciate it.
To wit, we have the case of Vince Li, the famous Greyhound beheader. I [...]

I just came across a response to my earlier post about Sid Ryan and the recent CUPE boycott brouhaha. The author’s blog is called “To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth”.. and I can’t help but notice that there’s no mention of reading comprehension in that title. Now the blogger, a gentleman by the [...]

So everyone’s favourite fire-breathing hypocrite is making headlines again. Stephen Harper is loudly and proudly displaying his remarkable knack for being behind-the-times in speaking out against Iran’s evil ideology, at the same time that our U.S. neighbours are inching towards actual diplomacy.
Of course, the first reaction that most people are likely to have is that [...]

I’m working on re-skinning this blog, so its gonna look a little fugly for the next little while.

I’ve stayed out of the latest Tory scandal (involving Chuck Cadman) because I’ve been somewhat underwhelmed by it all. When the news first broke I told my family that these sorts of deals happen all the time; the only thing that surprised me (and still does) is how apathetic Harper was in basically admitting it [...]

At least once a week I come across an editorial, blog or essay lamenting the death of the Middle Class. The Middle Class is “shrinking” or under pressure, etc.
I think it’s time as post-modern thinkers to accept facts; the Middle Class no longer exists because only vestigial traces of the manufacturing economy that it supported [...]

Censorship and “hate speech” has been the focus of attention of the blogosphere lately, with the usual suspects leading the charge, with Warren Kinsella on the left, and Small Dead Animals on the right. The latest conflagration is over Human Rights tribunals, and their role in trying to stamp-out hate speech. Specifically Ezra Levant, who [...]