According to Brian Lee Crowley, social licence devotees disparage due process and are attacking the very foundations of democracy
The logic of democracy is to democratize. Democratic desire is drawn toward the ideal of an ever-purer or more perfect democracy – one where the people’s will is expressed with immediacy. History offers many examples where immediacy has given way to democratic excess, be it the despotisms of Oliver Cromwell and Maximilien Robespierre, or the…
There is no place in a progressive society for parochial globalism of the likes of Robertson and Coderre
CALGARY, Alta. June 19, 2016/ Troy Media/ - The roots of politics run through the ancient Greek city, or polis, where individuals assembled to direct their collective destiny. The ancient cities exemplified the art of self-government and arguably gave birth to notion of politics (our word politics comes from polis). But the ancient cities met their end…
The Trudeau government's muddled thinking will only lead to trouble
CALGARY, Alta. May 15, 2016/ Troy Media/ - Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion caught the media’s attention in a recent [popup url="http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/stephane-dion-how-ethics-inspires-liberal-foreign-policy/" height="1000" width="1000" scrollbars="1"]speech[/popup] where he outlined his new sophisticated-sounding foreign policy doctrine. Journalists were inclined to dust off the works of early 20th century German sociologist Max Weber to decipher the words of the minister, a one-time academic.…
Trudeau is still cherry-picking between science and values, moving furtively from one to the other according to his interests
CALGARY, Alta. April 10, 2016/ Troy Media/ - Justin Trudeau likes to underscore for Canadians that the Liberal party bases its decisions on facts, an approach officially dubbed “[popup url="http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-we-have-an-awful-lot-of-work-to-do/" height="1000" width="1000" scrollbars="1"]open data and evidence-based policy[/popup]” to give it sufficient scientific resonance. Transparency is a high democratic ideal, data is the currency of our technological…
EU lacks the form and definition to provide a true security union in the face of a crisis
CALGARY, Alta. March 28, 2016/ Troy Media/ - Commentators on the terrorist attacks in Brussels have noted the symbolism of striking the city that houses NATO’s headquarters and is the de facto capital of the European Union. Some argue terrorism will hasten the end of the EU, or at least rescind the Schengen open-borders agreement,…
Environmentalism claims that the fate of the Earth is in human hands, while exhorting us to abandon our mastery
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We deceive ourselves if we deny even the possibility of having enemies in the world
// enemies enemies [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/2016/02/does-canada-have-enemies/" height="800" width="800" scrollbars="0"]Download[/popup] this column on [popup url="https://www.troymedia.com/tag/world-terrorism/" height="800" width="600" scrollbars="0"]terrorism[/popup] and the [popup url="https://www.troymedia.com/tag/justin-trudeau/" height="800" width="600" scrollbars="0"]Trudeau government[/popup] [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/terms-and-conditions-of-use/" height="800" width="600" scrollbars="0"]Terms and conditions of use[/popup] CALGARY, Alta. Feb. 26, 2016/ Troy Media/ - Discussion regarding the Canadian military has renewed as the Trudeau government charts a course in foreign…
Some experts, armed with an inflated sense of human reason and the power of science, profess more certainty than political reality allows
// prudence [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/2016/02/do-predictions-trump-prudence-in-politics/" height="800" width="800" scrollbars="0"]Download[/popup] this column on prudence in polltics and [popup url="https://www.troymedia.com/tag/junk-science/" height="1000" width="1000" scrollbars="0"]junk science[/popup] [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/terms-and-conditions-of-use/" height="800" width="600" scrollbars="0"]Terms and conditions of use[/popup] CALGARY, Alta. Feb. 11, 2016/ Troy Media/ — An old tradition argues that if those with genuine knowledge, rather than mere opinion, ruled, the political order would be…
// politics of hope politics of hope [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/2016/01/is-there-a-limit-to-the-politics-of-hope/" height="800" width="800" scrollbars="0"]Download[/popup] this column on politics of hope and [popup url="https://www.troymedia.com/tag/justin-trudeau/" height="600" width="600" scrollbars="0"]the Trudeau government[/popup] [popup url="http://marketplace.troymedia.com/terms-and-conditions-of-use/" height="600" width="600" scrollbars="0"]Terms and conditions of use[/popup] CALGARY, Alta. Jan 28, 2016/ Troy Media/ -— Progressives and conservatives share a perspective of hope, even if each defines…
We can — and must — help others, but without compromising the fundamentals that make Canada great
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The logic of democracy is to democratize. Democratic desire is drawn toward the ideal of an ever-purer or more perfect democracy – one where the people’s will is expressed with immediacy. History offers many examples where immediacy has given way to democratic excess, be it the despotisms of Oliver Cromwell and Maximilien Robespierre, or the…