To conclude the year, we asked our contributors and staff to make a prediction for 2023. You would think that after last year, we'd learned our lesson about making forecasts, but we couldn't stop ourselves. Feel free to keep these if you want to disgrace us later.Sir John A. will return to the news in 2023.History is always a good topic for making predictions. The matter is always with us, as it should be. What will 2023 bring from the past?Sir John A. Macdonald will be in the news again, this time when Canadians recall the Pacific Scandal, one of the most scandalous in the Dominion's history. Macdonald's cabinet was forced to resign 150 years ago, in 1873, after accepting campaign money from shipping mogul Sir Hugh Allan. The election resulted in Canada's first Liberal government, led by Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, although Macdonald returned in 1878 and governed until his death in 1891.The Toronto Argonauts football team, a Canadian institution, will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2023. The Double Blue will defend its Grey Cup championship from the previous season, but the smart minds at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment will fail to capitalize on the charisma of their star linebacker Henoc Muamba, missing an opportunity to rekindle the city's dormant affection for the once-dominant franchise.One final prediction for 2023 is that Library and Archives Canada, the supposed leaders in the preservation and promotion of the country's past, will continue to fail in this endeavor. Lacking openness, service, and leadership for Canada's history, the past does not have a promising future at LAC next year
It has been infuriating to see folks who answer the cry to "Freedom!" deny that there is any problem worth bothering about. There is nothing small-government about the belief that if there is no problem, the government should do nothing to remedy it. The justification for libertarianism is based on the premise that difficult, important problems require individual effort, creativity, and consensus. Not the assumption that we live in a world free of difficult, important concerns. The polarization of pandemic concerns is so extreme that we can't even agree on what "doing something" and "moving on" look like. Wearing a mask, testing a few times, and working remotely while sick but otherwise returning to normal may qualify as either for the proper person. The inability to agree makes it difficult to be anything but angry with one another. Voluntary replies are good, however they are not adequate. What would have been the libertarian policy response to the p
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