Is anyone really surprised at the amount of discussion that this short (45 second) video clip is generating? The National Post said, yesterday, that "The social conservative wing of the Conservative Party looks set to have at least one flag-bearer in the leadership race, as former party staffer Richard Décarie is collecting signatures and has … Continue reading Is anyone surprised?
Category: Values
Fixing our foreign policy
Yesterday I wrote about the Alliance For Multilateralism which I believe is: Harmless, at worst; and Likely off to a shaky start because it already (see link above) includes a few (which is too many) countries which are either weak democracies or hardly democratic at all. That being said, Canada belongs in it because we … Continue reading Fixing our foreign policy
So, here we are …
... not even ten days into the 2020s. A century ago the "roaring '20s" dawned with the realization that the Treaty Of Versailles (28 June 1919) was so deeply flawed that Henry Cabot Lodge, a great and astute American statesman, who had advocated for American participation, on the allied side, in the First World War … Continue reading So, here we are …
Will Ottawa ever do the right thing?
That's the question the Globe and Mail's Robyn Urbach asked in an opinion piece last week. The issue is Québec's Loi 21 ~ the bill that forbids public employees, like teachers and police officers from wearing a hijab or a kippah or a turban ~ it's an act which Ms Urbach describes as being "an … Continue reading Will Ottawa ever do the right thing?
America’s dark side
It took me several hours, a couple of weeks ago, to figure out that this was not some sort of internet hoax. I was going to ignore it until there was a spate of violent anti-semitic attacks, in New York, over the Hanukkah holiday period, which appear to have been perpetrated by black people. The … Continue reading America’s dark side
Canada’s lack of a Foreign Policy
Zi-Ann Lum, writing in the Huffington Post, quotes former Canadian Security Intelligence Service chief (and also former Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister of National Defence) Dick Fadden who said that "recent Conservative and Liberal governments have “failed abominably” on foreign policy work with China." … Continue reading Canada’s lack of a Foreign Policy
We need to get Canada up off its knees
Terry Glavin, writing in MacLean's magazine, says that "With Beijing’s most determined allies decisively crushed by a democratic alliance in Hong Kong’s district elections over the weekend, at least somebody’s putting up some kind of a fight against Xi Jinping’s increasingly savage aggression and belligerence. Because it certainly isn’t Canada." He reminds us, as I … Continue reading We need to get Canada up off its knees
