Category: Politics
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Woke vs. Folk
In 2016 I joined my father at a Stampede Party in Calgary. It was well attended by Conservative MPs and former federal cabinet ministers. Former, because a year earlier their government had been defeated by the Liberals, making Justin Trudeau the Prime Minister. As a result of the defeat the leader of the Conservatives had…
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Why I Support Jean Charest
in: Politics
My decision to support Jean Charest as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is informed by both policy and a meditation on the difficulty I have supporting Pierre Poilievre. While my policy preferences align more closely with Charest’s, I prefer his more balanced form of expression. I realise this latter factor might be appreciated…
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Der schrie wie ein Jochgeier
Some years ago I was camping just outside Venice near a little village called Jesolo. As we got out the car, at our camp site, a rather portly middle-aged man came marching down the gravel roadway towards us. With a look of resolve, clenched hands swung from side to side on bent arms across his…
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Putin Said …
It would be ironic that the Russian landscape that defeated Napoleon and Hitler will now defeat Putin. *** “Ukraine’s farmers now have the fifth-largest army in Europe — or so goes a dark joke on the internet, a reference to all the captured Russian military equipment they’ve towed off the battlefield.”[1] *** It’s hard to cut through the…
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The End of the Administration
The big shit’s been flushed; it’s gone, out of the room. But a stench remains. Or will a fresh wind clear the air.