Washington: A Silent Capital
There’s only a week to go before election day, but, walking around Washington, you’d never know it. There’s not an election sign or billboard in sight. If you didn’t turn on the television or the...
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The Age of Meta-Politics
Watching the recent presidential debates between U.S. President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney made me wish I had a time machine to return to the days when Richard Nixon was the leader of the...
View ArticleThe State of Kosovo: Has Supervision Really Ended?
On September 10, 2012 Kosovo ended its “supervised independence.” What this means in actual fact, is not clear. Kosovo is still far from being economically, socially, judicially, or politically...
View ArticleDivided We Fall
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.” - Abraham Lincoln At a time of great uncertainty there is comfort in ceremony. Election night put a merciful end to the presidential...
View ArticleHow the Demographic Shift is Changing Politics in America
It is with the backdrop of a weak economy that Obama ran for re-election and won, whereas twenty years ago George H.W. Bush, the 41st president had lost under similar circumstances. Both presidents...
View ArticleAll Eyes on Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau’s keynote address at the Reviving Islamic Spirit Conference in Toronto last month was in sharp contrast to Michael Ignatieff’s ineptitude in connecting with key constituents early in the...
View ArticleMaking it Easier to Be Green
It’s times like this that I wish Canada’s Green Party would disband. Wait; before you start sending me furious emails written in all caps, let me explain. I have tremendous respect for what the Green...
View ArticleCanadian Democracy: Two Wolves and a Lamb Voting on Indigenous Rights?
It is sometimes quipped that democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. This Darwinian image of vulnerable minorities falling prey to a ‘tyranny of the majority’ is why few believe that...
View ArticleHow Christy Clark Could Have Won
Christy Clark could have won the May 2013 B.C. provincial election. I know that sounds strange—both because it refers to a future event as if it has already happened, and because it is hard to imagine...
View ArticleHarper’s “Real” Hidden Agenda Exposed
On Sunday February 24, there was an illuminating editorial in the Toronto Star by Haroon Siddiqui titled “Harper’s real agenda on religious freedom”. Siddiqui begins his article by saying “Let’s see...
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The War on “The War on Drugs”
____ After 20 years on the police force, why did you choose to speak out against drug prohibition after your retirement? By the time that I was on the job five years, I realized that there was only one...
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