While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Mark Bulgutch.
The problem with Remembrance Day is that we have short attention spans. Remembering our war dead, about 110,000 people who have been killed in our overseas wars, is a promise we make to ourselves when the memory of loss is fresh. The country goes to extraordinary lengths to mark the deaths of Canadian soldiers during a war. While the fighting...
The new year looms with menace, because Donald J. Trump will soon be the American president again. Unlike MAGAman, I read a lot. These days, I find myself filtering everything I read through the lens of FutureTrump. Tommy Douglas was the premier of Saskatchewan for 17 years, the first leader of the federal NDP and the acknowledged father of medicare...
The other day I walked into my favourite bagel bakery and made a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy an everything bagel instead of my usual double poppyseed. I guess I was tired of double poppyseed. Buying a bagel has insignificant consequences, so trying something different for the sake of change was a low-risk choice.
It’s said that on Oct. 15, 1793, all of Marie Antoinette’s hair turned white. It’s because she was so worried about what was going to happen the next day. She was going to be beheaded. Science tells us this story cannot literally be true. No amount of worrying can change your hair colour overnight. But stress or worrying can do...
There’s been some criticism of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre because he hasn’t given Canadians much detail about what policies he would adopt to make things better in Canada if he were elected prime minister. It appears those critics have missed the point. Things will obviously be better if he’s PM because Justin Trudeau won’t be. That is the entirety of...
We tend to believe that we live in unprecedented times. In some ways that’s true of course. Fifty years ago, we didn’t have cellphones or email. We didn’t send civilians into space. Taylor Swift wasn’t born, let alone worth more than a billion dollars. Looking at the larger picture though, many of the things happening today sorta happened before. A...