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But if the context is so complex, how are we to respond? Do we blame God for placing people in the swampy delta that is Bangladesh? Do we allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the complexity or fall headlong into rash action based on simple slogans? The tragedy in Bangladesh last week is at once madden...
Still, it was particularly refreshing to read Ellen Ratner, a self-described Liberal Democrat who voted for President Obama twice, describe President Bush as having "saved more lives than any other U.S It is not that unusual even five years later, in casual conversation, to hear seemingly informed o...
Still, even the most casual reader of business or technology news could be forgiven for expecting such a forecast to be made with full frontal irony in mind It seems the new CEO of Blackberry was being anything but ironic when he declared this week that tablet computing will be all but dead in five ...
Last weekend, finally, I began this summer's work in the garden ...
Just when politics abroad are becoming more and more religious, politicians at home are struggling to articulate not only the meaning of reasonable accommodation, but of religious freedom itself ...
But in politics, governance culture can be everything, and yesterday in the House of Commons Motion 382 took an important step forward to recognizing not only the high priority of religious freedom in Canadian foreign policy, but also religious literacy generally in its foreign affairs ...
Last week we were once again exposed to attack ads in Canadian politics Secondly, in the mix of factors that determine political decision-making, attack ads might provide a public service in proposing a narrative that may in fact be true ...
Those who find such a claim slightly excessive should spend extensive time travelling, as I do, by VIA Rail and then return to air travel via one of our major landing strips I drove past my local VIA Rail station, and it looked to me as though they were unloading off the back of a truck something th...
The kerfuffles here and there in the days following the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher should prove to each of us the need for civility in "civil" society For instance, many years ago when I was an executive at the Calgary Herald at the time of former Canadian Prime Ministe...
NBC's Revolution is one big game theory experiment: if all the power shut off, how would people respond? Or AMC's The Walking Dead: what are the social and moral dynamics of post-apocalyptic survivors? Right down, of course, to Max Brooks' unsurpassed World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, ...
We are now well acquainted with the fact that Canadian political parties have drained the clear water of principle from the House of Commons and left it a swampy cesspool of power and pandering ...
At the same time, it does seem a very different threshold was crossed mere metres from the finish line of the Boston Marathon A woman in our running group at the Paris marathon a few years ago said: "I've run marathons, and I've given birth ...
If high schools are judged by their college acceptances, why are colleges not judged and ranked by their ability to launch their graduates into meaningful careers within their callings? The academic culture of a college cohort—whether students freely engage in discussions about ideas outside of clas...
But is it true, like Alexis Wichowski has argued, that social media is now so central to good governance, to political and social life, that "to ignore or disdain it would amount to professional malpractice?" Maybe it's not just diplomats disdaining twitter that are guilty of professional malpractic...
Super PACs, or Political Action Committees, are those great behemoths that spend hundreds of millions, sorry, hundreds of billions of dollars to get their candidate or their desired piece of pork into office or into law First, as Ray Pennings notes, "political parties have become marketing machines ...