As a federal election looms here in Canada, I have been thinking lately about how voting for liberals – small ‘l’ or large – is never going to save us. Mainstream political life in lots of countries in the 21st century takes the shape of an electoral choice between the hard right or the far …
I’ve been thinking, lately, about elections. This is probably not a shock – I live in Ontario, Canada, and there is a provincial election in Ontario happening in late February, and there will probably be a federal election not too long after that. I don’t particularly want to talk about the specifics of those elections, …