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07Feb2017

Some Are More Equal Than Others

George Orwell’s Animal Farm contained this famous line, memorable for its ludicrous, oxymoronic slogan: “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” It would be laughable if it weren’t such an accurate picture of...
  • February 07, 2017
  • Rod Taylor
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31Jan2017

Whoever Heard of Fetal Cannabis Syndrome?

This week, I received an email. This is not an unusual occurrence; but this one caught my attention. I not only read the email, but also followed the links. After following the links I sought different...
  • January 31, 2017
  • Gunn
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24Jan2017

The Unprecedented President

​Boisterous and brash, America’s 45th President has been sworn in. He’s also been sworn at and there are those who seem sworn to his destruction.
  • January 24, 2017
  • Rod Taylor
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17Jan2017

Phasing out Prosperity in Four Steps

​Our Prime Minister is engaging in a cross-country “town hall” tour; he is speaking to Canadians and answering their questions — I’m not being sarcastic, he really is spending most of the time at these public events answering questions.
  • January 17, 2017
  • Peter Vogel
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10Jan2017

White Sand Beaches and Perpetual Deficits

As 2017 begins fresh and new, taxpayers of the future (some of them not yet even born) are being saddled with a crushing tax burden. It’s called taxation without representation because those future citizens will...
  • January 10, 2017
  • Rod Taylor
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03Jan2017

Celebrating Canada’s Sesquicentennial

Our Queen and our Prime Minister have both mentioned in their New Year’s messages to us, on the eve of 2017, that this year we celebrate 150 years as a nation. This really is momentous!
  • January 03, 2017
  • Gunn
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27Dec2016

The Year Behind; the Year Before

At the junction of the old year and the new . . . as we flip our calendars from 2016 to 2017, it may be appropriate to reflect for a moment on these spoofy lyrics sung by Scouts around the campfire...
  • December 27, 2016
  • Rod Taylor
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20Dec2016

Don’t Let Herod Spoil Your Christmas

​We all know about the “wise men from the East” who followed the star in their search for the Christ Child. They were wise enough to seek Christ and also wise enough to outfox King Herod.
  • December 20, 2016
  • Rod Taylor
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13Dec2016

Rising Stars of Unequal Rights

Was it just me or was anybody else totally turned off by our Prime Minister’s grandstanding over the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre? Don’t get me wrong; my heart goes out to the families of these ladies . . . as it does for the families of the almost seventy other “real people” killed in other tragic Canadian multiple murders.
  • December 13, 2016
  • Gunn
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08Dec2016

Deforming Electoral Reform

​You probably got a small postcard in the mail this week from the Government of Canada with the headline “Have your say about our democracy”. It announces an online survey which can found at mydemocracy.ca Will this survey really give you a say?
  • December 08, 2016
  • Peter Vogel
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06Dec2016

Progressive Confusion

​To put it mildly, it is disappointing to see the three largest Canadian federal parties are all committed to be progressive in their policies. But what do they mean by progressive?
  • December 06, 2016
  • Enos
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