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Category Archives: Canada
Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of Canada
Stephen Turner‘s (b. 1951) convenient beliefs run at full polite-multilateral speed right now in the Langevin Block, the Prime Minister’s Office, Global Affairs Canada, and the back-channels with Washington, Brussels, and the Gulf. A convenient belief is one a governing … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Canada’s Master Institutions
Canada’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly claiming it. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as necessary for unity, fairness, reconciliation, or stability. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. … Continue reading
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Is Trump threatening Canada because he believes it has been taken over by China?
Grok says: Whether Donald Trump is threatening Canada specifically because he believes it’s been “taken over by China” is tough to pin down with certainty—it’s more inference than explicit statement. As of March 15, 2025, Trump’s public rhetoric and actions … Continue reading
Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio
From an academic paper in 2011: * For many people, radio has a slightly anachronistic air about it. Perceived as technologically inferior to image-based media and less serious than textual media, radio is often ignored as a marginal and ephemeral … Continue reading
From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada
Aaron W. Hughes writes in this 2020 book: * The academic study of religion, for all intents and purposes, began in Germany in the nineteenth century. Its goal was, as indeed it still is, to understand the religions of the … Continue reading
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Higher IQ Predicts Higher Achievement Even Among Top 1%, Justin Trudeau Groping Scandal
MP3 MP3. 1m1s The use of race as a proxy for IQ, sterilizing the low IQ is better than being racist, everyone gets a fair chance to propagate 2m3s Luke wants to empower police to give the reverse five digit … Continue reading
WP: ‘Video shows woman demanding ‘white doctor’ for her son in waiting-room rant’
Washington Post: As the woman stormed through the Canadian medical facility, she was adamant: She wanted a white doctor to treat her son — not a brown one and not one with an accent. “So you’re telling me that my … Continue reading
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NYT: “Families Don’t Have Borders”
.@tabletmag on @HIASrefugees-inspired @CBEBK #sukkah designed to draw attention to plight of #refugees https://t.co/xqlBqVIhV0 #Sukkot2016 — West End Strategy (@WestEndStrategy) October 21, 2016 My alma mater @Georgetown does it best! Have you seen the amazing @HIASrefugees-inspired #Sukkah at @CBEBK focused … Continue reading
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The Megaphone: 3 Emmett Till Movies in the Works
Comments at Steve Sailer: * “A Clockwork Orange” was inspired by the home invasion by American GIs in England during WWII of the house of Anthony Burgess’s future wife. Anybody known more about this incident? * The “Ultra Violence” from … Continue reading
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A Brief Survey of the Various Foreigners, Their Chief Characteristics, Customs, and Manners by P.J. O’Rourke
P.J. O’Rourke writes in National Lampoon in 1977: AFRICANS Racial Characteristics: Probably not people at all. Probably some kind of monkey. They eat each other and worship bundles of sticks and mud. You can never remember the names of their … Continue reading