The American election: in an obscure race, a cause for optimism

While I often despair of the United States for its isolationism, obsession with money, and its reality TV culture, there are so many good and decent people there.

We should be encouraged people like incumbent North Carolina state Senator Jeff Jackson are fighting the good fight and working to ensure their democracy survives, and thrives, writes Andrew Caddell.Photograph courtesy of Twitter/Sen. Jeff Jackson

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 4, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I am a “glass half-full” person. When the chips are down, I believe things will get better. I take my inspiration from a time years ago, when I was part of a terrified group of 20-somethings standing on the knife edge of Mount Victoria in the Rockies in an August blizzard at 1...

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