Centuries ago, I sat on the board of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union. Toward the end of my tenure, in the mid-1990s, we provided a significant amount of seed money to help get a brand-new, left-wing version of the Fraser Institute off and running. It’s called the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — an independent,…
Tag: Bernie Sanders
When courage really counts
Tuesday night, I watched the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate — the last debate before the South Carolina primary on Feb. 29 and the Super Tuesday vote March 3, when about 1/3 of Democrats cast their ballots in 15 American states and territories for who they want their presidential candidate to be. For a large part…
Bernie Sanders: 2020
I just woke up from the worst nightmare I’ve ever had — Donald Trump won the U.S. election! But wait. It’s not a nightmare — it really did happen! We will be debating and analyzing Tuesday’s election results for a generation to come. But for me the No. 1 takeaway is the outright opposition within…