If you hear an American politician talking, whatever the subject, whatever is being said, the sub-text is race and racism.
Regions and Race: Canada and the United States
The best government
There is a political class in Canada known as the Laurentians.
Centred in the Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto triangle, they believe that we should defer to our betters. And our betters are the politicians and civil servants who spend our hard-earned tax dollars.
They Should be Arrested and Charged with Anthropic Pride
There is a billboard outside the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. At the entrance, the billboard advertises an exhibit entitled Anthropocene, the Age of Human Influence. The advertisement declares that “Mankind has affected the earth more than all the processes of nature.”
Great change
Can we turn the clock back on government intervention? Will the pendulum reverse direction and
recover to a mean?
I am beginning to fear not. There are more government takers than providers. The political
pendulum is weighted in the wrong direction with no apparent change of momentum
or direction reversal in the foreseeable future.
OMG
Who would have thought that we would elect a national government that leads us in such a way that we, in Canada, are not competitive with a nation led first by Obama, then by Trump?
Solar power and environmental theology
I ponder the question of why solar energy can be described as green while housing, parking lots and development can be described, by the same person, as environmentally damaging.
Carbon Tax
Governments that impose carbon taxes are now heavily incented to increase their revenues thereby allowing, encouraging, or at best permitting increases in carbon production.
An open letter to Alberta voters
This letter is to anyone thinking of voting for Greg Clark in the next election.
I was dismayed to find out from a very good friend, that he was going to vote for Greg Clark.
How is it going?
We have purchased a home in Victoria. I have spent the last months there. I am asked by some, “What are the differences that you have noticed?” The politics of the climate change fanatics are crazy; that is different. Calgarians…
Equality and privilege
Some animals are more important than others. BC ferries are a new experience for me. They are so egalitarian. So Canadian. You line up together, no one gets ahead of anyone else. You all board the ship together and get…