"Unlikely Canada": First Quebec and Now Alberta
Does Canada make sense? Peter Zeihan's 2015 anatomy of world geopolitics, The Accidental Super Power , is fascinating reading largely be...
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively deba... -
The Huawei case matters to Canadians I don’t know about “everyone,” but I can tell you why I, as a Canadian, “care so much about the Huawe...
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On Reading "The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China's Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention"Apologist for China, Me? In response to numerous posts I had written on Canada's arrest and detention of the Huawei CFO, Meng Wangzou,...
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"I might've fallen for that when I was fourteen and a little more green But it's amazing what a couple of years can mean ... -
The National Inquiry Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer... -
It's a mirror!? “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” Just to be absolutely clear for the Alice-in-Wonderlanders, there a... -
The Plan for Romeo and Juliet to consummate their marriage When the Nurse explained the plan—a rope ladder, “the cords,” would be placed ... -
Tense versus aspect Some languages do not have verb tenses. The English language has only one tense: the simple past tense, also known ... -
A Charter of Values? In 2013, when the Parti Québécois government was proposing a “ Charte des valeurs ” I reacted, on this blog, with ... -
“Vagina” is masculine I first came across this factoid thirty years ago in Daphne Marlatt’s novel Ana Historic . It came up again more r...
