It was a rough year for The Economist, which spent the first half of 2016 heaping scorn upon the ignorant and the backward who supported Brexit, and the latter half alternatively lusting after a Hillary Clinton presidency and hyperventilating about a Donald Trump one.
Read MoreThere is some confusion over the future of Stéphane Dion, dropped from the foreign ministry, or “global affairs” as it is currently styled in the consultant jargon of Her Majesty’s government for Canada.
Read MoreI began the New Year on the West Coast thinking about the East Coast. On Vancouver Island, which is about the size of the state of Israel, my thoughts were with the people on the island of Ramea, a tiny speck off the southern coast of Newfoundland.
Read MoreOn New Year’s Eve 75 years ago, Ottawa was actually abuzz. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in town, and had addressed Parliament the day previous.
Read MoreIt was officially the Jubilee of Mercy, with its attendant graces. But 2016 was more the “Year of Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love). Its ongoing reception may well produce a year ahead of increasing acrimony and division.
Read MoreThe Atlantic document speaks of “medical assistance in dying (as) a highly complex and intensely emotional issue which profoundly affects all of us” but offers an analysis that is neither complex nor intense.
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