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Where did all the conservatives go? Trump to the rescue of the white race U.S. Congress shows some grit More money for guns, for butter … not so much Pandering to Putin
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A hundred seconds to midnight

Aug 7, 2020

Seventy-five years ago yesterday, at 8:15 in the morning, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The fireball charred every…

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The sun sets on Hong Kong

Aug 5, 2020

Once an enterprise Canadians went to war for, the British Empire is now in disgrace. And no wonder. It owns many sins. The Atlantic slave…

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The truth about history

Aug 4, 2020

What is historical truth? To get at the truth of history, we must know it and we must understand it, and these are two very…

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Everything isn’t racism

Aug 2, 2020

When RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was asked if her force was systemically racist, she replied that she believed unconscious bias existed in the force but…

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An Optimist No More

Jun 5, 2020

I am a very lucky human being. I was born into the greatest period for a member of Homo sapiens to be alive, the peak…

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An Honourable Executive

May 22, 2020

Amazon is a corporation famous for a number of things: revolutionizing retail, making its founder and CEO the world's richest man, and creating workplaces that…

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Featured posts
  • The U.S. changes sides, whither Canada?
    August 15, 2025
  • Alberta, tribalism, luck and oil
    May 24, 2025
  • Yes, Trump really is crazy
    April 7, 2025
  • It’s the cruelty that appals
    March 16, 2025
  • The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
    November 29, 2024
  • What is the real price of your hamburger?
    September 23, 2024
  • Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
    August 27, 2024
  • Sweden—a model economy
    August 15, 2024
  • The most important history lesson
    March 23, 2024
  • Terrorism—weapon of the oppressed?
    October 9, 2023
  • Are we on a path to sustainability?
    May 7, 2023
  • Conservatives and the CBC
    March 2, 2023
  • Dismissing the low taxes myth
    February 26, 2023
  • The “racialized” fallacy … or how to (or not to) compare ethnic groups
    March 9, 2022
  • How races differ
    May 21, 2021

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