Category Leadership
The Day Before
Money talks. Should it? Is anyone listening? Americans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a third of the US Senate and all 435 members of the House of Representatives. Campaign spending has hit record amounts, billions of dollars. Political advertising alone has crossed the $11 billion mark. And there are lots of expenses besides […]
Electoral Interference – II
This post may be outdated by the time you read it. It was completely rewritten once already. The original mocked Donald Trump for ordering the Justice Department to prevent the certification of the Alaska Senatorial election should the Republican candidate lose. Such an attempt to interfere in the race before the votes were cast was […]
The Disconnect
He may one day be President of the United States, so I felt it was important to read the book. J.D. Vance has left me unsettled, with a feeling he really doesn’t know who he is. Communion, which was published earlier this year, is the story of Vance’s return to faith. It is the story […]
The Day After
They are still counting the votes, but the results so far show that about three quarters of Albertans have voted to stay in Canada. There will be no separation referendum. Given that the results matched public opinion polls, you could say that the whole thing was a waste of time and money. And the discussion […]
Alberta Votes
It is referendum day in Alberta. Ten questions, including one about whether the province should remain part of Canada. I’m all in favor of the democratic process, but this referendum seems to me to be set to create more problems than it solves. Governments, once elected, are supposed to provide leadership. Campaign on a set […]
Meet The Press
Turns out being blonde and female are not sufficient qualifications. Donald Trump has dumped his press secretary, after five days on the job. As someone who went to law school she should have known better than o misrepresent herself to the media. Has she never heard of fact checking? I suppose she could have lied. […]
How To Lose An Election
Politicians are human. That means sometimes they do stupid things. (And many of you are reading that and asking “sometimes?”) Taking advantage of a leaderless opposition, British Columbia Premier David Eby called a snap election. The idea was to kick his opponents while they were down and secure a majority government. Now that may backfire, […]
American Pornography
No one expects Donald Trump to be consistent, And no-one should be surprised as the USA descends into barbarism in its attempt to emulate the world’s worst human rights offenders. Those well known democracies, North Korea and Iran perform public executions of those convicted of crimes under their laws. Donald Trump has spoken out against […]
Scary AI
The CEO of American high tech firm Palantir thinks the US government should nationalize the artificial intelligence industry. His rationale is that the industry is about to be crippled by lawsuits and that being government controlled would somehow prevent that. It is true that every day seems to bring another news story about some company’s […]
Monday’s Smile
I borrowed this from a friend’s Facebook page. I found it amusing, though not accurate. It does though express the Canadian mood. There are 15 locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Together they allow commercial ships from the Atlantic Ocean to travel as far west as Thunder Bay. It is a much more efficient/cheaper way […]
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