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Mel Gibson and the ethics of consuming art
I don’t know how Hollywood works, apparently. If I was the head of a major studio, I would not, under any circumstances, turn to a man known for anti-Semitic slurs to make a movie about Jewish history....
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Tragedy borders on comedy
Some things would be funny if they weren’t so darned tragic. Looking Back… 70 years ago, we see the following notation: Canadians of Japanese extraction were being interned away from the coast. In the...
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Polling fail, meet Alberta
The pollsters, and quite a few pundits, are lining up to defend pre-election polling in the wake of the surprise win by the Progressive Conservatives over the upstart Wildrose Party in Alberta’s...
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Annotated column: The big crunch of demography
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, but this column felt… cramped. So here’s some additional notes. If you want to just read the column as-is, go here or skip this and read it below....
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Harper Godwinned himself
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, tried to slap down the NDP by claiming that they opposed Canada’s entry into the Second World War to fight Hitler. Two immediate problems with this: first, as...
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Google’s car and disruptive technology
Sometimes, I write a column and it gets something out of my system. And sometimes the column format is just too short, too cramped. Thank goodness for blogs! So here’s where I’m going to revisit the...
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Fraser Health disagrees with anti-vaccers
Here’s a press release from Fraser Health Authority that is bound to aggravate the anti-vaxxer crowd, whose obsession with fake reports and falsified studies about the supposed evils of vaccinations...
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April Fool’s Day all year round
So the ChristyLibs are finally getting around to actually doing something about dumping the HST, as requested by a majority of British Columbians eight whole months ago. When I wrote today’s “April...
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Environmental irony
I just received this press release: LANGLEY ENVIRONMENTAL HERO AWARD CEREMONY To be held on Saturday, June 9th at the Fort Langley National Historic Site 23433 Mavis Avenue, Fort Langley 11:00am 21...
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Auditor General dumps on ChristyLibs
Wow! I don’t recall ever having seen such a damning release from an Auditor General before. Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia Auditor General reveals messy finances at the Legislature...
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Winter Games of our discontent
It’s beginning to look like the IOC’s decision to let a brutal regime with an appalling disregard for human rights host the Olympics isn’t going as well as it did five years ago in China. As most...
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Winter Games of our discontent
It’s beginning to look like the IOC’s decision to let a brutal regime with an appalling disregard for human rights host the Olympics isn’t going as well as it did five years ago in China. As most...
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