“When you have a problem and a solution,” the barber said, “you don’t have a problem anymore.” “When you have a problem and no solution” - and here he shrugged - “you have a way of life.” The barber worked not far from the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa, and spent many years offering wisdom to MPs and Senators. And he was right, of course. His aphorism applies, these days, to Alberta’s erstwhile Premier, Danielle Smith. Smith has a big problem, one entirely of her own maki

At the Tel Aviv International Documentary Festival, June 2 and 3! Pretty cool.

Full disclosure: I despise separatists. My family were all born in Quebec. That was home. But in the Seventies, we had to leave Quebec because the separatists drove us out - we spoke English. There have been two referenda in Quebec on separation. They cost Canada and Quebec jobs, investment and political stability. More than 700 companies left Quebec. Canadian stocks and companies lost value. And the experts say that the national economy was hit with billions in losses, year

This popped up on the Facebook memory thing. Don't know why, but it did. So, I post it here to remember her, as I sit up at the cabin with Joey, her brother. ** Roxy was her name. Before I even met her, that was her name. She was a black lab and boxer mix, and a rescue. I drove out to Woodstock with two of my sons to get her, and the owner – an old-time Ontario PC, who recognized me as a damn Liberal and joked that I couldn’t have her – had already called her Roxy. It fit. So

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The thing about AI, really, is that we don’t know a thing. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but not by much. We all know AI is artificial intelligence, which the dictionary people tell us is “the capability of computer systems or algorithms to imitate intelligent human behavior.” We know we’re being told that AI is going to change everything, yes. We also know that enormous sums of money are being spent to create AI. Sprawling data centres are being built, and millions of p

From yesterday's event at Beth Israel Synagogue in Peterborough to discuss The Hidden Hand - attended by the Mayor, the Chief of Police, MPs, MPPs, Jews, Muslims and Christians. I was honoured to be there.