It is early November and in the streets of Toronto, men and women are pinning bright red poppies onto their dark winter coats. They do this in remembrance; they remember the men and women who gave their lives in the two great orgies of violence that defined the twentieth century in order to build a saner and a better world. That world, which the ( Read more... )

The NPD’s underachievement in the recent federal election generated a heavy flow of theses as to why the party didn’t rise to the occasion. I don’t know exactly what the relative importance of each of the different factors explaining the NPD’s crash is, but we can safely say that the perception that the NDP moved too much to the centre, the niqab ( Read more... )

Australian master strategist Lynton Crosby has reportedly abandoned Stephen Harper's campaign, just four days before Canadians choose their next government, according to ThinkPol ( Read more... )

Is accepting the right of others to adhere to a religious doctrine and style of dress that others find distressing or demeaning to women an example of the dreaded cultural relativism? No, it is an example of pluralism. What’s the difference? Relativism holds that truth does not exist; pluralism, that there is such a thing as truth, but that none of ( Read more... )

The digital revolution has fuelled intensive data analysis south of the border that allows political parties to zero in on people who support rival candidates and then find ways to prevent them from voting ( Read more... )

Hair is in the election-season air. I didn’t put it there - those attack ads on Mr. Trudeau introduced the subject, with “Nice hair, Justin” - but now that the hairball has been coughed up, so to speak, let’s consider it ( Read more... )

It's a massive shock that turns Canadian politics on its head: the NDP has won a majority government in Alberta ( Read more... )

In a sure sign of the Second Coming, Canada's federal Liberal Party not only managed to lose a seat they've maintained for most of the last century -- the riding of Outremont in Montreal -- but they also managed to lose it to the National Democratic Party (NDP). You know the NDP; it's the party where all the former Leninists go after they discover ( Read more... )

Here's an idea for the City: instead of spending several billion dollars on the construction of tram-lines and monorails, how about actually using the existing system of under-utilized train tracks that have criss-crossed the city for about a century? I'm willing to bet that we could even open-up above and below-ground stations on the existing ( Read more... )

Well, my Mom was very, very right about the voter situation out in the Laurentians; people really are fed up with the PQ. The Action-Democratique has taken just about every seat in the Laurentians, Lanaundiere, and the Eastern Townships down south.