Tag: Liberals
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Empathy and Elections
Someone I care deeply about but hadn’t seen in many years once declared, “life has been better to me than I deserve”. And he did indeed have a good life. His own law firm, world travel, a condo in Palm Springs; a fortunate life. I’ve often thought about that phrase and I recently realized that…
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Things Change
My friends tell me I’m focusing too much on politics lately, so I thought I’d mix it up a bit. Since I just sold our 1993 Daytona and I have my 2008 Nissan Sentra for sale, I thought I’d take a trip down automobile memory lane. My first car was a 1972 Datsun 510 and…
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Voting for Hope
I’ve been giving some thought lately to what drives change (or not) during an election and I have a few hypotheses that I’d like to muse about and relate them to each of the party leaders in the coming election. When things are going well, of course people will vote the ruling party in again.…
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Give Me Back My Canada!
Right before every election, I become very outspoken. So much so that many of my friends and relatives think I’m very politically involved. I’m not. I’m not even a supporter of any particular party. I like to judge each of them each on their own merits and record. In case you’re wondering, I’m not anti-government…
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Ethics Lost
I’ve been thinking a lot about the ethics and morality that exist in our world today, or not. We’ve been through Bill Clinton having oral sex in the White House, the Jean Chretien’s Liberal Adscam, Stephen Harper’s Conservativea circumventing the election rules, Martha Stewart’s inside trading, the head of Canada Post forced to retire because…