Next month, I'm delighted to say, I'll be taking part in the REIC annual meeting and conference in Ottawa. The topic of my address will be "Without Ethics, None of This Works". Institutions are vitally important. But even more fundamental is a political and commercial culture that values honesty and shuns and punishes deceit. Without honesty, formal rules mean nothing, in government, in real estate and commerce generally, and in our private lives.
Without ethics, none of this works.
An amusing item from the latest Landowner magazine on how government works... or tries to.
Brigitte and I will be talking about Magna Carta and how to take Canada back with a smile at the Vic Juba Community Theatre in Lloydminster on February 29, an event put together by our friend Danny Hozack and the good folks at the Economic Education Association. Tickets are available here. Hope to see you there!
Brigitte comments, with respect to that Maclean's article, that "The Tories put the 'Royal' back in the name of our navy. Too bad they didn't do anything about the 'Navy' part."
My Windows 10 download and install was a genuinely amazing experience. So if technology is going to bring us true fulfillment, why aren't we happier?
Ottawa is a strange place. But the trial of Mike Duffy is weird even by its standards, as I explain in C2C Journal in the only format that seemed suitable to the occasion.
My new podcast "Reality University" is now available. It offers a weekly look at the big questions that affect our common life and the key ideas (and books) that help us understand the world around us.
Please drop by and audit a few classes and consider signing up. Because as Philip K. Dick once said, "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away."
Now that the Bank of Canada has cut the interest rate by exactly 0.25% we must wait reverently for the magic to infuse the economy. Click here to read the rest.