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Duffy trial reveals ugly truths about our democracy

Perceptions by Gerry Warner A “Great Senator” and “one of my best, hardest-working appointments ever.” None other than Prime Minister Stephen Harper scrawled this effusive…

Saying no to our oil dependency is rank hypocrisy

Perceptions by Gerry Warner So the oil will flow! Surely, you weren’t surprised? This week’s decision giving the go-ahead to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline…

Translating science

By Miranda Holmes Even though I found it stultifying, the secondary school I attended was considered quite progressive, largely because students could elect in third…

Harper and Ford – both will go

Perceptions by Gerry Warner “Politics, the art of the possible,” said Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Count von Bismarck uttered this classic phrase in 1867, the…

Harper must go and so should the Senate

Perceptions by Gerry Warner “Throw the bums out!” I think that’s how millions of Canadians are feeling about the Senate today, and for that matter,…

What did he know and when did he know it?

Perceptions by Gerry Warner Around three years ago, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to Cranbrook to attend a private party to mark the retirement…