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I liked Jack. And, liking him, I have no problem calling him “Jack”.
I’d never spoken with him. I saw him only in restaurants in the nineties, and spotted him once in 2009 as he walked alone down University Avenue past the Horton’s I was attending. (Is there another first-world nation where the leader of [...]
When asked by The Globe and Mail if he accepted evolutionary theory, Conservative Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear offered a curious response.
I’m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don’t think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.
Around the country, scientists were [...]
“Ordinary people” don’t care about the arts, and artists are elitist snobs who whine at extravagant taxpayer-funded galas about government subsidies not rising quickly enough. And with that denigrating assessment, Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his government’s forty-five million dollar pre-election gutting of arts funding in Canada.
I think when ordinary working people come home, [...]
In its rush toward populism and away from discourse, the federal Conservative government in Canada has revealed its vision. Some of that vision was contained in its election platforms of 2006 and 2008, but much of it has been spooled out over the course of the life of the minority government led by Stephen Harper [...]
At what point does a country officially turn from a tradition of peacekeeping to an ethos permitting permanent, unscheduled military engagement? Does it happen when the armed forces reach a certain critical mass? When military funding becomes unprecedented? Or when engagement happens in multiple theatres, and future combative missions are simply assumed despite the political [...]
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