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* Editor’s Note: The age of the dinosaurs has at last come to an end — with the arrival of this website!

How Canada Should Respond to Corporate Perfidy

On December 23, 2018

Perfidy: The word means treachery, duplicity, disloyalty, untrustworthiness, and unfaithfulness. And that’s precisely what multinational corporations have shown to Canada – and to the rest of the Western industrialized world. Most of our once thriving industrial sector has been transferred to the Third World, especially China, where […]

The Great Inland Archipelago

On November 3, 2018

“Sometimes another world, like a secret garden, lies close at hand

but utterly unsuspected. So it is with our continent’s Great Inland Archipelago. A mere two-and-a-half hours drive from the […]

The Savages of Saudi Arabia: Premeditated murder at the consulate

On October 24, 2018

When savagery collides with civilization, the civilized man must react with steely resolve. The autocratic regime of Saudi Arabia has shocked the world with an act that can only be called savage. On October 2nd, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey by prior appointment […]

The Case against Kavanaugh: Manifestly unfit for the Supreme Court

On October 24, 2018

How does one appoint a man accused of sexual assault to the Supreme Court of the United States? There were no criminal charges (let alone convictions) against Brett Kavanaugh arising from the sexual assault claims made by Christine Blasey Ford and two other women. But, surely a […]

Narcotic Follies: The perversity of normalizing recreational drug use

On October 24, 2018

Is it just us, or is anyone else sick to death of the endless ballyhoo being made over the utterly perverse legalization of marijuana in Canada on October 17th? We say perverse because normalizing the recreational use of a narcotic, by giving it an official stamp of […]

Case Studies in Contempt: Ford; Trump; & the Saudi Autocrats

On September 12, 2018

I. Contempt for Courts

It is appalling that the freshly-minted new government of Ontario abruptly decreed that Toronto city hall had too many elected representatives and arbitrarily cut their numbers nearly in half – in the middle of a municipal election campaign – throwing existing campaigns into […]

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Editor’s Notebook

How Canada Should Respond to Corporate Perfidy

The Great Inland Archipelago

The Savages of Saudi Arabia: Premeditated murder at the consulate

The Case against Kavanaugh: Manifestly unfit for the Supreme Court

Narcotic Follies: The perversity of normalizing recreational drug use

Case Studies in Contempt: Ford; Trump; & the Saudi Autocrats