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The idea of a flow of information from any level of government to the people who that government represents is generally a good one. It is very easy for government to make decisions with a seeming complete disconnect from voters.

This is not to suggest that politicians don’t work hard. Nor is necessarily to suggest that getting elected hasn’t somehow become part of their job ….

Our modern society is the weirdest. Even with having the knowledge of the past, the technology to look deeper into the past, and the lessons that past generations taught us, this day and age seems to just ignore all of it.

Welcome to Week CCIV of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

Manifesto? Really? I thought that word went out of politics with Karl Marx, or maybe Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez or other latter-day dictatorial types. Did not see it dominating today’s NDP federal party, as it now appears to be doing.

On CBC this weekend, Jim Brown, host of The 180 interviewed Molly Sauter a McGill University PhD candidate who says corporate boycotts of political jurisdictions that pass anti-LGBTQ laws are undemocratic.

Dumbass criminals getting caught by flashing ID may be more common than you think It’s been a while since I’ve done a dumbass criminals column, so I went looking for some new good ones.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

For the most part, our brains didn’t evolve in cities. But in a few decades, almost 70 per cent of the world’s people will live in urban environments. Despite the prosperity we associate with cities, urbanization presents a major health challenge.

Wolf TBP Vol #1: Blood and Magic Written by Ales Kot Art by Matt Taylor Image Comics I’m not exactly sure what was going on in this great book for most of it, and I still use the word great. Ales Kot has as a strange tale going on here.