Adam Chapnick, wrote a paper a few years ago that I just ran across today. The paper -- "Peace, Order, and Good Government" -- is a brief, revisionist review of Canadian foreign policy. In it, Chapnick lays out what I think is a very useful 'test', if you will, to determine who's a liberal -- emphasis on the small-l -- and who's a conservative -- same lower-case emphasis:

Small-l liberals believe that individuals are rational beings...   more »

Fahrenheit 451 is, of course, the temperature at which paper burns.

But the book of the same name -- I read it, I think, in Grade 12 or something -- is an anti-utopian tale that warns against state control of thought and the dangers of state censorship. And when I saw the movie version, I was sure of that point. Well, now comes along the guy who wrote the bloody book (left) and says it has nothing to do with all that ...   more »

Not surprisingly, the uproar over the Atlantic Accords is all the rage on Parliament Hill. I'm taking a day off but the BlackBerry has been humming nonetheless with news of this and that on this issue. Thought I'd put up a quick post for a couple of reasons. First, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he's ready to have the courts rule that his government's budget do not alter the Atlantic Accords. Someone ought to get a judget to do that quickly because, according to The Canadian Press, Nova Scotia Conservative MP Gerald Keddy is now about ready to jump ship ...   more »