Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Happy New Year, everyone! I must admit, starting out, that I feel burdened this New Year by something we’re doing. We seem to be executing the vast majority of people appearing before military tribunals and the thought greatly saddens me. Every execution we carry out, in my view, is a testament to the overall bankruptcy […]
There’s stress we have some control over and stress we don’t. You’d think I’d want to write about stress we have some control over. But actually I’d like to look for a moment at stress we don’t. I’m beginning to experience my own level of stress rising as a result of (A) background noise and […]
I spent eight years interpreting a Canadian statute – the applicable paragraphs of the Immigration and Refugee Act, as it then was (1998-2006). That involved preparing for a hearing with a refugee claimant and their legal representative, presiding, and issuing a decision based upon the facts of the case, the country literature, applicable treaties and […]
For the highest good of all…. We use words like this and “of the people, by the people, for the people” with a sense of certainty. But do we really know what they mean? This phrase will come to have more and more meaning in the months and years ahead so I think it’s a […]
Over dinner I usually watch a documentary. This week’s subject is The History of the World. Do you know that that documentary has simply gone from one battle to another, one empire to another, one cataclysmic rupture in human relationship to another, throughout our history. I’ve said that from memory but this particular series shows […]
