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S Anderson

S Anderson

  • Joined: January 01, 2023
  • Articles: 63

ANDERSON: This isn’t 1980, Mr. Trudeau, and these aren’t the boat people

In 1979, following the communist invasion of South Vietnam, the killing fields of Cambodia, and various regional wars, about two million South Asian refugees were driven out of their homes. Out of desperation and facing almost certain death behind them, many simply floated out to sea in leaky boats in hopes of finding safety somewhere,...

ANDERSON: The mysterious Trump phenomenon

"At the moment Donald Trump controls the daily agenda because reporters insist other candidates respond to whatever he says. That will lessen as the novelty diminishes."  So said the Wall Street Journal back in July of this year, echoing countless similar opinions, including mine. In fact, each week of last summer I waited for the...

ANDERSON: White privilege, gullibility and true racism

There have always been charlatans trotting about on the fringes of believability making loads of money off gullible people. Deepak Chopra has been accused of being one such individual, misusing scientific terms with wild abandon and tossing out alleged profundities that make no sense at all, claiming for example that "consciousness may exist in photons,...

ANDERSON: Western guilt and the Islamist threat

The middle east is more unstable today than it's been since Axis and Allied armour ranged across it in a hot war 75 years ago, on the fringes of living memory, yet we are not treating ISIS as a serious threat. It cannot mount an invasion of the west, it cannot come close to winning...

ANDERSON: Migrant danger?

In the wake of the Paris and Beirut bombings, Canadian social media is starting to polarize. The "Muslims are going to creep in and shove a bat up our nightdress" gang are busy posting bloodcurdling memes garnered from across the internet, while the "Canadian values" crew has hunkered down behind the barricades lobbing "xenophobe" and...

ANDERSON: ‘The Martian’ and what it says about us

As the movie "The Martian" led box offices for the fifth week in a row, on the heels of movies like “Interstellar” and “Gravity,” isn't it time to ask why people are so attracted to the idea of space exploration? Brent Lang, Variety magazine's senior film and media reporter, suggests the interest is because this...

ANDERSON: Election post mortem

Well, now the election is over and it's time to look at the dynamics involved. First, let's put the results in perspective, because I've heard the term "collapse" applied to the Conservative Party's (CPC) loss, and that's just plain silly. In point of fact the Conservatives emerged from this election with approximately the same number...

ANDERSON: The boy king

Richard II of England was surrounded by greatness, both generational and concurrent. His predecessor Richard I was known as "the Lionheart," and whatever his true failings he is known to posterity as a brave king and legendary warrior. His namesake Richard III was the last English king to die on the battlefield and the last...

ANDERSON: Why the Conservatives are winning

'BY CONTRAST TO THE LIBERALS AND THE NDP, THE CONSERVATIVES ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD TO CANADIANS.' Back in June I wrote about the split on the left, how it was the mirror image of the split in the right that existed back in the 90s, and why that meant a Conservative victory on October 19....

ANDERSON: Orange popsicles and the politics of fear

On my way to kindergarten one day a long time ago I witnessed one of those early lessons we sometimes remember for the rest of our lives. A welder was welding two pipes together beside a hole in the ground in the middle of a lawn, back in the days before it took three workers,...

ANDERSON: The refugee crisis won’t be solved with a couple sacks of rice

The riots in Pakistan in 1964 and 65, culminating in the second Indo-Pakistan war, sent 600,000 hungry refugees streaming across the Delhi plains into the heart of an India that at the time couldn't even feed itself. By the time they reached the outskirts of Delhi they were literally starving to death. My mother, with...

ANDERSON: Finding contentment in a cardboard castle

There's nothing like sitting in a cardboard castle on the shore of a lake on the edge of the Rockies late on an early September evening, reading by the soft yellow light of a Coleman gas lamp to get the mind drifting down odd alleyways. The setup finished, a soft rain ending, and my dog...