The goal in daycare is harmony, not dissent. Children raised from as early as six months old in day care quickly learn the group dynamic. The physical bond of being bound together for walks or outings serves as an ample metaphor for the larger dynamic of groupthink
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...the underlying message of eastern criticism was that he was Not Us. Other. A prairie outlier in the scented salons of the Liberal Party’s traditional corridor of power.
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From every side of the political argument, we have entered the Whatever era. Keep the facts roughly within the ball park and move along.
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There are reasons aplenty for the Liberals coming from off the pace to win a majority. The NDP’s total collapse was a crucial one. The Eastern elites were able to seize power once again from the renegade westerners. But, as HBO’s John Oliver made plain, Stephen Harper was the only issue that mattered.
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There has always been political theatre. Teddy Roosevelt came back from Africa to challenge his close friend Bill Taft in 1912 when the portly Ohioan tried to dull TR’s environmental record. The Reform press ate it up.
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The latest spasm has the Tories clearly establishing a buffer between themselves and the… what?
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In a land that thinks Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, lamenting Canada’s fallen status is considered a political kill shot by the media.
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While the Americans (both left and right) are ripping themselves apart in polarity conflict and the British Labour Party has elected Trotsky in a tweed suit, Canada’s leaders are waging a pillow fight. With very comfy pillows.
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Here’s a fact: almost 99.9 percent of functioning homo sapiens agree that the climate is changing for the warmer at the moment.
Read MoreIn their unceasing demands for more and more raking the coals of the past, the TalkBots are not unlike the couple who analyze their marriage every night.
Read MoreThe scold impulse is never far from the Canadian id as we stare balefully south at the Excited States.
Read MoreHarper has bunged up the information cask, leaving a deliberate trickle of spin in place of juicy gossip. No wonder Ottawa’s press corps is on meds.
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