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What’s so Bad About Annexation?
(Thanks to Ben, who helped create this cartoon. But the responsibility for the copyright infringement is mine) Donald Trump wants to make us part of the United States, and I know that is causing a great deal of anxiety for some people. Relax, people! It isn’t going to happen! And even if it does, it’s…
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Insanity Trumps Climate Science
Donald Trump started off his second term as US president on January 20th in his normal bombastic, moronic, self-aggrandizing, and narcissistic way. I was going to use the word style, but decided not to because we should never associate the word style with the Donald. I substituted manner, but decided that he didn’t have manners…
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Policy vs Personality
(cartoon courtesy of Sue Dewar in the Toronto Sun) In my last article I suggested that voters would be influenced by the three P’s of politics – Personality, Performance, and Policy. I then digressed from discussing Jagmeet Singh as a personality, and a potential prime minister and wandered into a somewhat truncated discussion of NDP…
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That Sick Sikh Singh
Oh dear, I fear this might be a very Trudeau-like epistle – full of apologies. The first one is the apology for that disrespectful title, but it struck me funny and I just had to stick with it. The second apology is for any racist tone you might detect in the article. I honestly try…
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Ten Years of Political Debris
(Caricatures by Niall O’Loughlin) I wrote in my last essay, in which I ranted about the lies, disinformation, and nastiness of the populist Pierre, that I was reluctant to enter into the world of commentary about partisan politics. However, having done it once, it seems to me that it would be only fair for me…