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Two Essays for Easter
Here are two essays for Easter, both coming from very different places, but rooted in the Levant. Both speak of hope, which is what Easter is for Christians, coming, as it always does, on the summer side of the first day of … Continue reading
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The MP for Owen Sound opens old wounds on Native fishing rights in the Bruce
“With the Natives pushing to come into the Bays, it is a deliberate attempt at confrontation. That’s what they want.” With words like these, Larry Miller, (Con, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound) criticized a new Aboriginal commercial fishing agreement signed between Ontario and … Continue reading
Posted in All Categories, News and politics, Neyaashiinigamiing, Turtle Island
Tagged aboriginal, First Nation, government, Harper, Turtle Island
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Beware the Lies of March—What Shakespeare tells us about Hugo Chavez
I come to bury Chavez, not to praise him. Barak Obama says he was authoritarian. And the President is an honourable man. John Graham, former ambassador to Venezuela says he couldn’t manage his own economy. And he is an honourable … Continue reading
Posted in All Categories, Democracy, News and politics
Tagged foreign policy, government, politics
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Mordor ON
The Ring of Fire. It sounds like something out of a Tolkien novel. Welcome to Mordor Ontario, an area of 5,120 square kilometres in the James Bay watershed chock full of nickel, copper, zinc, gold, palladium and chromium—especially chromium (the … Continue reading
Posted in All Categories, News and politics, The Economy, The Environment, Turtle Island
Tagged environment, First Nation, mining, politics, Ring of Fire
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Mr Harper’s End Game
It is telling that the Idle No More movement started with four First Nations women—Nina Wilson, Sylvia McAdam, Jessica Gordon and Sheelah McLean who gave the first “Idle No More” teach-in. Sylvia McAdam is a lawyer, as is Tanya Kappo, … Continue reading
Posted in All Categories, News and politics, The Environment, Turtle Island
Tagged aboriginal, Canada, culture, First Nation, Harper, politics, Turtle Island
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Well, Happy New Year
As we grab a mug of the grog tonight and rally round to sing Auld Lang Syne remember to latch on to your neighbour’s arm in the proper Scottish way—only at the last verse. I’ll not disgrace the tune by … Continue reading
Forging the chains that chaffe: Canada’s Foreign Policy
The Harper government’s foreign policy amounts to dissing the UN, slavishly supporting Israel right or wrong, scolding the EU (while promoting a banking policy they opposed in opposition), and signing economic agreements with anyone with a pulse. John Baird managed … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, ecomonics, foreign investment, foreign policy, Harper, policy, politics
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The Vote Is In—America Needs a New Paradigm
It seems Americans are in for more of the same legislative gridlock as before the election. How Congress deals with the looming fiscal cliff will be telling. If you look at the exit polls, the vote split along America’s fault … Continue reading
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Tagged America, election, politics, US
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Remembrance
November 11th, 1894. My Dear Lord Raglan, I am but a few leagues from you and your great house at Usk and travelling westward. However, I regret to say that I am storm-stayed in a small village on the border … Continue reading
Posted in All Categories, Knowing, Satire, The Arts
Tagged dissent, literature, politics, war
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Three Essays on Scotland
Thin Places My wife and I have been wandering around the Highlands of Scotland. Yes, I went looking for ancestors—it seems the clan McLaren is one of the oldest in Scotland and not a few of us ended up here, … Continue reading
