In Angelo Persichilli’s Toronto Star column today, “No one bothers to watch the bureaucrats,” he rightly points out that our country’s bureaucrats have an easy way of it when it comes to doling out taxpayers’ money. The unknown (largely unaccountable) bureaucrats hiding away in their Ottawa and Toronto office towers, are a troubling piece [...]
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet.
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own [...]
And so the new Flag, joining and rising above the milestones of our history, today takes for the first time its proud place as the emblem of Canada, “The Maple Leaf Our Emblem Dear.” May the land over which this new Flag flies remain united in freedom and justice; a land of decent God-fearing [...]
AskMen.com listed the top 10 Canadian icons “that have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.” In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose, beaver, Tim Horton’s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey.
In our own circles, we have been asking [...]
We present some of our favourite quotes on Canada and Canucks - so you might spice up your toasts on Canada Day! Cheers!
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Burton
We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about [...]
Frank Graves, EKOS pollster and part-time Liberal advisor, talks of the new political reality in Canada. He muses that Canadians may be on the verge of a Parliament of coalition governments – maybe even resulting from the next election. Here’s the grave assessment as report in the G&M this morning:
“Oscillating Conservative and Liberal [...]
I don’t campaign. I just visit with the people.
Nothing I ever do is political.
I never say anything provocative.
I do not say that everything I did was right, but what I do say, Mr. Speaker, is that what I did was honest.
I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can’t [...]
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
Freedom is the [...]
The Walrus feature article this month is a review of the current state of hockey in Canada. David MacFarlane and Michael Adams take a look at how Americans are hijacking our game. It’s an up-dated review of an old lament as MacFarlane travels to arenas in Nashville, Florida and Phoenix.
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.06-sports-hockeyland
What makes this article noteworthy [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems. - Marshall McLuhan
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas
The disconnect between Canadians and those who govern on their behalf is deep, wide, and growing. At a [...]