Sunday , 26 March 2023

Opinion

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Minister of what???

Years ago the late Hamilton MPP Eric Cunningham, surveying what he saw as a worrying trend towards creating Cabinet Ministers with no real...

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The Beat Goes On…

It started with a gate on a sewage holding tank somehow staying slightly ajar, and the system that should have detected the breach...

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And, now what?

October 21 resolved nothing.  In fact Canada’s federal election confirmed, in the grand scheme of governance, that history may be in the early...

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On Trump’s tweets and other random thoughts

The New York Times devoted a pull-out section in the Sunday Times to an analysis of Donald Trump’s tweets. Here’s what the Times...

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“Pearson” minority not likely

Some political observers, analyzing the recent federal election point to Lester Pearson as a Prime Minister that made minority government work. Looking back,...

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A profile in Courage

These days, it appears that increasingly, the weapon of choice against hatred and intolerance is… hatred and intolerance. We have seen two recent...

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Should Twitter ban politicians from using their platform to promote hate, racism, intolerance and misinformation

Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey broadcast the first message on the platform on March 21, 2006. Over the years, Twitter has been dubbed a...