What does one do with the Conservative Party here in Canada? Harper’s support for Israel is unfailing and as a Jew and a big ‘Z’ Zionist and I can’t help but love that, embrace him and contemplate a vote for his party. On the other hand, he and his party can be so inhumane when it [...]
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Lying Governmental Truths or ‘Finding Newspapers in the Fiction Section’
I don’t generally write about politics, political statements or social issues and how they are defined by governments because I believe the real stuff, the things we’ll never know, happen behind the scenes. What we are privy to is mostly found in newspapers authored by individuals who studied writing not issues and their complexities. We speculate for years on what occurred [...]
