Category Archives: Politics

July comes before October

Posted on 2024-04-25 by CKirkby

I would bet there’s racism going on here too, but this sentence made me think of all the times I had to explain something comparable to “July comes before October” to a government department and it’d still take them years to agree with me. Continue reading →

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Societal untruths

Posted on 2024-04-01 by CKirkby

On this April first I’m thinking about some of the different ways society encourages or enables us to deceive each other.

There’s April Fools’ Day, of course, and there’s Santa Claus. Government entities like NORAD and Canada Post even get in on that “benevolent” lie.

And then there’s Parliamentary privilege… Continue reading →

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Arbitrary deadlines

Posted on 2024-03-29 by CKirkby

In case anyone is interested, there has been no activity on the pharmacare bill the federal government introduced a month ago and bragged about as a “giant step forward for our health system” and “a concrete step toward true and lasting gender equality.” Continue reading →

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“Des choix très, très clairs”

Posted on 2024-03-12 by CKirkby

The obvious problem is that it’s not sufficient to have progressive values in the absence of progressive actions. Continue reading →

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Far from pharmacare

Posted on 2024-03-01 by CKirkby

The new federal pharmacare bill has been posted.

I was curious to see how far left the NDP had managed to push the Liberals, and to guess how long it might plausibly be before Canadians start getting even contraception and insulin paid for, much less any other drugs required to live a happy and health life. Continue reading →

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Complaining about journalism, which is not the path I chose

Posted on 2024-02-19 by CKirkby

I’m having a lot of trouble “consuming” the news lately. It’s all so status quo all the time, when we quite clearly need non-status quo action. I want journalists to ask things like: “Okay, but what do 95% of subject … Continue reading →

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