TORONTO – Lord, spare us. Twelve years ago this week, a couple of Canadian political figures, at the time, relatively obscure except for rather fortuitous circumstances having nothing to do with personal talent, “squared off” to prove “their mettle”. It is a teen-age boy testosterone thing in North America. Some of us never outgrow it.
TORONTO – The federal government has said it clearly, and several times: the carbon tax cannot be touched. But what do Canadians think? The Angus Reid Institute tried to understand this through an online survey conducted from March 20 to 22 on a random sample of 1,602 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum. (more…)
TORONTO – It is the start of “Holy Week” for traditionalist Christians and Catholics. It is a powerful ritual. As I recall the significance of the week, it is a time of reflection on the meanings of events leading up to the last moments of the temporal life of Christ prior to His Crucifixion, Burial and Resurrection. All for the betterment of the human condition.
TORONTO – Threats against politicians are becoming “normal” in Canada too, due to extremist narratives fueled by disinformation or fake news: this is what emerges from a report prepared by a federal task force established in 2019 to protect the election process from foreign interference and including representatives from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the RCMP, Global Affairs Canada and the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s cyberespionage agency.
TORONTO – The Corriere Canadese has been receiving a stream of letters from the public regarding the sad state of affairs in the Education system. Some come from disappointed parents, others from organizations (“stakeholders”) dismayed, and even distraught, that “the system seems to have lost its way”.