Thinking of our current election the other night, I started fiddling around with the lyrics to a favourite song of mine.  The idea had been planted by friends who had reworked the lyric to John Lennon’s Imagine to fit the current political situation in Canada.  Also in recent weeks I have been going through the [...]

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Conservatives place a lot of emphasis in this election on keeping taxes low.  They argue that corporate taxes must be kept down if we are to continue our economic recovery (there estimation of our current economic state, not mine) and that Canadians should keep more of their hard earned money in their own pockets rather [...]

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Finally now Canadians must realize that our police are out of control.  There is no rationalization for using a taser on an eleven year old boy.  Under any circumstance that is an inappropriate response to a child.  Surely better options existed.  What did police do in situations like this before the advent of the taser? [...]

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Whenever the “West” does something good and noble in the name of freedom and democracy my stomach gets queasy.  Selfish is a word that comfortably describes our society here in the Euro-American world.  So it is very difficult for me to believe the syrupy platitudes dripping from the mouths of Western leaders.  We have imposed [...]

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The Salvation Army commissioned another poll concerning attitudes to poverty in Canada as part of their Dignity Project.  It always astounds me at the lack of understanding most people in this country have about the reality of poverty.  A majority of Canadians (54%) believe that a family of four can survive in this society on [...]

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While the governing body of Canada’s broadcasting industry considers slackening the restrictions on truth in the media, I can’t help but reflect on the response of a friend:  “What would be different?”   The simple truth of that statement was reinforced with the reports on the congressional intelligence hearings in the United States.  A news reader [...]

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So Fox News, so shock jocks, you who have spewed your venom on a gullible unsuspecting society, are you happy now?  No matter how you spin it the events of last weekend that saw a nine year old girl gunned down can be laid directly at your doorstep.  Language has consequences.  This is not the [...]

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Lest we forget.  Every year I have heard those words for as far back as I remember.  Lest we forget.  And yet it seems we never did remember.  Flowery speeches and poems waft through the autumn air each year and yet the killing goes on.  This is the first year of my life that I [...]

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Charges of criminal libel by Calgary Police against a local man for opinions expressed on his website will and should send a chill up the spine of all of us who use the web to express our views in one of the few democratic forums open to us.  Websites, such as mine, are opinion driven [...]

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Apparently an inquiry into the behaviour of Canada’s elite JTF2 forces has been underway for more than a year now.  Information is sparse but it involves detainees in Afghanistan.  The ugly spectre of torture rears for obvious reasons.  Torture and Canadians anywhere in the same paragraph offends and sickens most Canadians.  And rightfully so.  Torture is [...]

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