I haven’t watched The Simpsons for a long time, but one of my favourite episodes was “Homer the Great” from the sixth season, where Homer joins an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. Homer ends up becoming the leader of the Stonecutters Lodge, then he alienates all the other members so much that they […]
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A few years ago, there was a term sometimes applied to the United States: The Indispensable Nation. The problem in 2025, with Trump’s return to power, is that Canada and our other allies might have to find a way to make the US dispensable – or at least, as dispensable as we can manage. It
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For Canadians, the years 1963 and 2025 already seem to have a lot in common. In both years, there were federal elections in April that saw the Liberals win with a new Prime Minister sworn in who represented change (though in 2025, the new PM was sworn in weeks before the election and the outgoing
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For years, a number of politicians and media types have said that Canada’s traditional level of annual immigration has averaged at 1% of our total population. They argue that recent levels of immigration are not really very high, or that 1% is a reasonable policy for immigration. In the 1993 election, the Liberals, PCs, and
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It has been an incredible reversal of fortune for each of the two major Canadian political parties since November, and also the NDP, if you believe the many polls in the last few weeks. The only thing more incredible has been the change in the US since January 6th, 2021. Donald Trump has gone from
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There are a number of times when I get suspicious about unanimity – when everyone seems to agree about something and there is no real dissent or criticism, except for voices so extreme or untrustworthy that most people automatically tune them out. Canadian defence policy seems to be one of those areas, where even the
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I like to think that I have lived long enough to spot fads that make little sense and yet are popular. People are often not very rational, and often markets are wrong. Now, sometimes the opposite is true – when something is dismissed as a fad, but actually represents a major change or is being
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Like most Canadians, I was sick of Trump even before he was sworn in on January 20th. Now, pretty well everything that comes out of his mouth is a half-true, ignorant opinion, based on someone else’s ignorant opinion, or a total fabrication. His repeated claims that he wants to make Canada the 51st state show
If you haven’t seen it, the 2010 comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine” is far better than the title suggests. The concept is pretty basic, and I won’t go into the plot, but the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes is: “Its flagrantly silly script – and immensely likable cast – make up for most of its flaws.” I
Unfortunately, we live in a violent world, but not as violent as it has been. In 2011, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual Stephen Pinker wrote a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker argued that violence around the world has declined in both the long term and
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