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The Rob Ford Show
Rare is the day when a Canadian political scandal makes international news. In fact, never is the day when a Canadian political scandal makes international news. Rob Ford is a pioneer! Mr. Ford is of...
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Bye bye Bachmann
On Wednesday morning, Minnesota Congresswoman and House Tea Party chair Michele Bachmann announced she would not be seeking re-election in 2014. Two days later, her would-be Democratic opponent,...
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The Obama Diet
In the wake of my recent Obama-bashing, I reckon I should note that I was actually quite impressed by the President’s much ballyhooed May 23 speech on the future of the War on Terror. The video is...
View ArticleDid You Know Politics
Howdy folks, sorry for not posting here in ages. I always want to do more blog-style writing, but I just can never get quite as motivated as I should. But one thing I can get motivated for is my big...
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A right-Left peace treaty
The NSA/PRISM spying scandal that broke late last week has been so awash in sensationalism and intrigue it’s been more than a tad difficult separate fact from fiction. So here’s what we do know: A...
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Senate reform ideas
It really says something about the sheer uselessness of the Canadian Senate that they can’t even keep an accurate track of how much money their members are stealing. Senator Mac Harb, a former Liberal...
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The G8′s Syrian consensus
Well, last week’s big G8 leaders’ summit in Northern Ireland seems to have been a bit of a bust, at least if the goal was achieving unanimity on the Syria question. Though all eight presidents and...
View ArticlePenny Arcade in trouble again
Here, let me weigh in on the latest Penny Arcade controversy. Mike “Gabe” Krahulik, the Penny Arcade cartoonist, made some tweets a while ago that, to put it charitably, demonstrated some insensitivity...
View ArticleBoss Fight Books interview
In the past, I’ve written some critical things about the state of video game writing, and the degree to which it reflects poorly on the lofty aspirations of “games as art.” “A truly artistic medium...
View ArticleNorth American pay scale
After writing this recent editorial for the Huffington Post, which looked at the inflated compensation received by politicians in Canada, I thought it might be useful to make a comprehensive reference...
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Dead and buried debates
The trio of deeply important rulings handed down by the US Supreme Court last week were remarkable in how simultaneously symbolic and functional they were. Or, to put it another way, the rulings...
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Choosing an Egyptian government
During the Cold War, one of the ideological obligations of being a good leftist was caring an awful lot about the Chilean military coup of 1973. That was the revolution that brought General Augusto...
View ArticleBert and Ernie and ruining male friendships
I just listened to a great (as usual) epsiode of the Slate Culture Gabfest which devoted a substantial amount of time to deconstructing The New Yorker‘s now-infamous post-DOMA cover, which depicted a...
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Calculating Mulcair
A perennial frustration of observing and practicing the delicate art of politics is the maddening difficulty of linking policies with outcomes. Can we assert with any certainly, for instance, what...
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A Canadian pioneer
An obscure Albertan politician made national news in Canada this week after getting entangled in what is possibly the country’s most lurid sex scandal of all time. Albertan oil is very popular in the...
View ArticleThe Way of Men – a review
Of all the striking, contrarian sentiments I encountered while reading Androphilia (2007), an insightful and important book on reclaiming masculinized homosexuality from gay alt-right author Jack...
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Cameron vs. Smut
I like David Cameron a fair bit. Just as Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer of the English-speaking right in placing free markets and anti-Communism at the ideological core of 20th century conservatism, I...
View ArticleAnother critique of Anita Sarkeesian’s ongoing Tropes Vs. Women video series,...
A while ago I wrote a long rebuttal to the first episode of Tropes Vs. Women, Anita Sarkeesian’s amazingly successful, Kickstarter-funded YouTube video series that aims to document and denounce harmful...
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The Keystone to Happiness
“Here’s what I know about Keystone XL,” tweeted famed Canadian political commentator Paul Wells the other day. “Every time the President of the United States mentions it in public, he laughs. And it’s...
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Putin’s worst crime
Every so often, it seems, our planet produces a country with a government so objectionable, so wicked, so self-evidently evil, all of humanity is able to briefly unite in righteous indignation against...
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