Politicians love photo opps with little babies. They also love photo opportunities with orphans from Haiti, and are willing to inconvenience many people and cost taxpayers money for them. Maybe you’ll want to think twice about voting Conservative again in the next federal election in Canada. Then again, politicians are politicians, no matter what party […]
There is an old saying that the camel is a horse designed by committee. Committees and “stakeholder engagement” are de rigeur in government. They are a large part of the reason why government is widely recognized as a slow, lumbering beast. Unfortunately, in a democratically-elected, representative system of government, I’m not sure that it could […]
With all the recent buzz on the Internet and elsewhere about Google’s impending pull-out from China, much mention has been made of the censored content that Google.cn presents to users in China. Control of information is fundamental to totalitarian control of people. For that reason, Google.cn could not present, for example, images of the 1989 […]
Government ministries and agencies are not known for their responsiveness and communication efficiency. Hidebound bureaucracies, particularly those run by politicians at the top, are loathe to say the wrong thing. “Better to say nothing than to say the wrong thing!” is the de facto policy. That will probably never change as long as we the […]
There are some people who like war. It’s not the soldiers. It’s not the generals — at least not the ones who’ve been on the line, in the thick of things. The people who want war are those who are full of bravado but don’t know any better, those who stand to gain power, and […]
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