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Apocalypse in Slow Motion: A Brief History of An Intractable Conflict

On August 23, 2021

It is deeply imbued in the human psyche to regard those we perceive as “the other” in negative terms: it gives us licence to treat them with indifference, suspicion, and active hostility. Our capacity (some would say, our need) for subdividing ourselves into “us” and “them” is […]

The Case for a New, Improved Pax Americana

On May 4, 2021

During its first 200 years, the Roman Empire presided over a period of unprecedented (for its time) stability and prosperity throughout the Mediterranean world – a period known as the ‘Pax Romana’ (or ‘Roman Peace’). While that order was largely established by force of arms, what gave […]

The Avarice of the Billion Dollar Banks

On June 25, 2021

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone… a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire…”

What was true of Ebenezer Scrooge goes in spades for Canada’s under-regulated banks, […]

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From the Corporate Hall of Shame

On February 17, 2021

On February 16, 2021, the CBC-TV satire series “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” had an appalling entry from the corporate hall of shame, which, to date, we have not seen referenced on the mainstream news. It seems that Bell Media, which runs a national telephone service and […]

“The Noxious Idea of Separation”

On February 9, 2021

“One nation, indivisible.” Those words, well-known to every American child from the Pledge of Allegiance recited at the start of every school-day, have currency on the northern side of the 49th Parallel, too, even though they too often go unspoken here. Recurring talk over the years about […]

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