Getting serious

Even as I continue to lambaste the democratic process in my own country, things are finally beginning to pick up steam in the great presidential horse race to the south. It was announced today that Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the most uncomplicatedly respectable Republican in modern American history, will be throwing his hat into the [...]

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More on the Franchise

In their bid to shame their colleagues into voting in the upcoming election, many franchise advocates online have been making pointed references to the current turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.  How can you possibly not vote – they ask – when people in Yemen and Syria and Libya are literally dying to [...]

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Thoughts on the franchise

My far-flung co-bloggers don’t have to worry about this sort of thing (or, at least, not for a while yet), but for those of us who are of a Canadian persuasion the issue of The Vote is very much of current interest. For those readers who don’t know, Canada is currently in the midst of [...]

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The Best Laid Plans

The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis. Emblem; 2008. 336p.  First reading. There are many things that I think bring my country (Canada, to be exact) into a state of ill-repute, but I don’t often throw around the phrase “national disgrace” in describing them.  I don’t intend to do so now, either, but The Best Laid [...]

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Odyssey Dawn

As you’ve likely already heard, yesterday saw the opening of military contact between the forces of a broad UN coalition (including the US, UK, Canada, and France, at least) and the disputed Gaddafi ruling authority in Libya.  This was done in response to the unrelenting threat that the Gaddafi regime poses to the people it [...]

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The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor John Zmirak and Carla Millar. Crossroad; 2008. 76p.  First reading. “Hey, what’s that you’re reading, there?  Looks interesting.” “It’s a blank-verse graphic novel in which we discover that religious modernism is in fact a dark conspiracy.” “I… okay.” There’s really no way to sell Zmirak and Millar’s The Grand Inquisitor to anyone [...]

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Conduct unbecoming

The grim wheel of politics has taken its usual turn, and we find, in Canada at the present hour, the unwholesome sight of a Catholic priest suing a prominent Catholic news agency for $500,000. The accused: LifeSiteNews, a significant and persistent element of the North American Pro-Life movement.  I have been critical of them in [...]

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