Conflict and Courage
It may well be that the most disastrous social project in Canada’s history was the residential school concept so many years ago, in which tens of thousands of native children were more brutalized than educated. (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Mulcair had a vision but…….
An essayist of some renown once said something that befits Thomas Mulcair’s recent months: “Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living but it makes striving worth attempting.” He’s spent the last few months facing more adversity than advantage from his own NDP colleagues. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
So what’s so commendable about carding?
It’s now about half a century since, as a member of the Toronto Star’s editorial board – consisting of four or five editorial writers – we listened to the ceaseless complaints of the visiting Toronto police over lunch. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Trump. Can he triumph? Possibly?
Not long ago Donald Trump gave us this; “It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.” Really? We the people are all sheep. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Whither America?
Wherever you are, what’s happening elsewhere, near or far, matters more and more as our population grows closer. I’m now in such a situation. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)