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AFN Virtual Forum Series with Federal Party Leaders (Election 2025)
AFN hosted a series of conversations with Canadian Federal Party Leaders. See their YouTube channel if you want to view other videos, including the…
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Crisis talks: Far fewer than 7 generations, what has value, and the future of British North American settler-colonialism
Recently I’ve reconnected virtually with Jesse Hirsh, who is hosting MetaViews. I have been making comments on some of the podcasts and articles in the…
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Identity Politics? 2025 Election priorities? The core problem is political identity silos!
I was watching some Daily Show clips, and I noticed a reference to something I familiar.
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Blogging for IT World Canada (ITWC)
IT World Canada (ITWC) invited me to be a guest on their Enterprise Insights blog starting from January 2008.
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"Woke Liberals"? I wish!
Abuse of the AAVE term "woke", and related misunderstanding of "Racism" makes communication impossible.
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Zionism
I feel I have to say something any time I mention Zionism, given the constant abuse of the IHRA definition of Antisemitism and other material as Zionist…
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March 2025

Big changes since my 50th birthday
Change happens whether we want it to or not.
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It is not "right wing" to recognize that Canada is broken!
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 is holding meetings and conferences.
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Thinking about life, death, the food chain, and social justice/control/cohesion
I wanted to offer some thoughts that came to mind while listening to a podcast by Mike Oppenheim who was interviewing Jesse Hirsh.
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I’m back in Ottawa Center. Goodbye Ottawa South and David McGuinty
Electoral District boundary redistribution means I'm back in Ottawa Center, where I was in 1987.
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Two decades of writing letters to The Hill Times editor
Several letters I wrote to the editor about technology policy have been published since 2005
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Do Canadians want sovereignty, or a better deal?
Nobody likes to be attacked by a bully. But what if the talk of greater integration was from someone else?
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