Critical Perspectives and Reflections

What with all the illegal shenanigans of the former president of the USA seeming to be coming to some moment of truth (at least, most of us hope that is what’s happening) and getting huge coverage, we should not let some of our own Canadian stories of vile leadership be forgotten. I’ve been musing on the disappointing, but hardly unexpected, results of the recent election in the Province of Alberta. For what it is worth, there is one thing I think we have learned (or should have learned) in the months that have gone by since the alt-right of conservative minded politicos in the UCP got rid of the already cynical, right-wing Premier, Jason Kenny.i Smith and her UCP, true believing adherents have demonstrated that they are among those arrogant ignoramuses who think they can create their own truth, like climate change is a hoax aimed at beggaring, specifically, the whole population of Alberta, for example. They neither understand, nor show the slightest interest, in learning about the pro...