Beyond the Rhetoric

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” You may not agree with some of his political viewpoints, but I think we can all agree that Jack Layton loved his country. He worked [...]

In the United Kingdom, the riots that ravished city streets last week have ceased, but the potential for such activity to surge up again is hardly a remote possibility. Across Europe tear gas stocks have risen as the continent nears a level of financial uncertainty it hasn’t seen since 2008. Governments are cracking down, which [...]

“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence. Fear is such a weak emotion thats why I despise it. We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth. So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you. Sometimes I’m like the only person I [...]

“The private lives of public people may be considered private only so long as they don’t trade on them to advance their public careers. If an individual presents himself to the public for election as a happily married father of three, then he has made his weekend with a secretary or his visit to a [...]

“The interesting thing about the Conservatives I think is the frequency with which they project their own deepest fears about themselves onto other people. You know, they accuse the opposition of being poor financial managers, yet they have the biggest deficits in Canadian history.” Let me preface this by saying that I am aligned with [...]