End of the Year Reflection
I've been crossing borders for most of my life. I first entered the United States on a passenger ferry from Vancouver to Seattle while the sun gently set over the ocean. And I returned to Canada via a sleepy checkpoint on a dusty country backroad.
A Politics of Contribution
So much political analysis is about what powerful people and organizations do to influence the electorate that it can be forgotten that our politics is not just the sum total of whatever politicians, advocacy groups, corporations and news media put into it. Politics is not a one-sided equation. We remember, we are reminded, that voters have wills. We have wills. We are not just acted upon; we have the capacity to act.