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Peter Jackson is The Telegram's Commentary Editor. You can reach Peter at pjackson@thetelegram.com

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• The percolated jumping frog of Dunderdale county
  There’s a metaphor about change that often springs to mind.Take a frog and put it in a pot of boiling water. It will immediately leap out. Put it ...
• Sticks and stones
  Politics is full of glass houses. But that doesn’t stop anyone from throwing stones. Far from it.Last week, a firestorm of protest broke out over ...
• Febreze®
  Febreze, a line of deodorizers manufactured by Proctor and Gamble, has been on the market since 1996. Most people will recognize Febreze from a ...
• Is old age security really broken?
  Fixing what’s not broken seems to be a guiding principle behind much of what Stephen Harper says and does these days.In everything from corporate ...
• Best-laid plans
  “When we commenced our review, we requested a copy of the ‘Infrastructure Strategy’ that was being referred to in the speech from the throne and ...
• Rendered mute
  It’s hard to know what makes Lawrence Solomon tick.The National Post columnist has devoted most of his energy to spreading myths and promoting ...
• Harper, Pope draw battle lines
  Now there’s a sensational headline, for sure.It’s a nod to Canada’s most mobile pundit, Andrew Coyne, who downsized fellow journalists for ...
• Lesson learned, now for the next step
  The sordid legacy of residential schools has left a lasting scar on the relationship between native populations and the rest of us who — fairly ...
• Beyond the grief, a gesture of giving
  In Tuesday’s Telegram, Barb Sweet reported on the fact that 25 people in this province received life-changing kidney or liver transplants, thanks ...
• St. Christopher sticks it to Christmas
  I notice Christopher Hitchens is dead. By that, I don’t mean he has “passed on” or “crossed the bar” or “gone to meet his maker.” I mean, where ...
• Christmas stories, new and revised
  Warning: Reading this column will take two minutes of your time that you will never get back.Rudolph the red-nosed reindeerRudolph the red-nosed ...
• Eyes without a face
  Not to trivialize the issue with a choice double entendre, but the decision to ban veils at citizenship ceremonies is really only window dressing ...
• Lies and the lying liars who tell them
  I cannot tell a lie. The title of this column is stolen from U.S. Sen. Al Franken’s book about the Republican Party and its unofficial media ...
• Zen and the art of surfboard deliverance
  Several years ago, a choir I sang with attended a little social event in a church basement along with a visiting group from Brazil. We had some ...
• Do your best, Scouts Canada
  Few criminal cases are more sickening than unreported child sexual abuse.The most high-profile of these has been abuse at the hands of Catholic ...
• Excuse me, is this street occupied?
  Thanks be to God. Those dirty, urinating, lazy, misguided vagabonds have finally been kicked out of Zuccotti Park. (That is, unless they've moved ...
• Let’s get serious about jokes
  It’s a knee-jerk response, mostly. A public figure makes an off-colour remark and everyone jumps aboard him or her. Special interest groups ...
• Global warming: one skeptic’s conversion
  I think we’re long overdue for a global warming checkup. The topic has pretty well fallen off the radar in the past couple of years, but climate ...
• Do no harm, but do something
  Just to be clear, I am a stooge for Big Pharma. I have been bought. They throw wads of cash my way, disguised as grants and consultancy fees.I am ...
• The last days of Katherine the Great
  As the winter of 2011 approached, the people grew restless. The fish were gone, fuel was scarce and the muffin lines were growing longer. Tribes ...
• Promises? What promises?
  In anticipation of the return of the Kathy Dunderdale crew to the bridge of the USS Newfoundlabrador, I decided to take another scan through the ...
• Abortion fight ignores the bigger picture
  The Reform Party may be securely ensconced in the national Conservative Party of Canada, but the former party’s proclivity for loose-cannon ...
• Dimon in the rough: the face of intransigence
  My paltry RRSPs are moving in the wrong direction again. The world is three years out of the great meltdown of 2008. Yet, despite what many fear ...
• ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ (revised)
  Mine eyes have seen the glory of the dropping of the writAll the candidates are ready, they are chomping at the bitAnd the streets will soon be ...
• No prayers to spare for the other victims
  The 9-11 anniversary has come and gone, and the deluge of mainstream media coverage has been, to say the least, disappointing. Alarming, even.One ...
• Tunnel vision
  When I look at the proposed Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, I sometimes think about wrongful conviction cases.The analogy is not a stretch. ...
• They are bikers, hear them roar
  When it comes to the loud motorcycle debate, I have seen so many red herrings floating around this week that I’m thinking of opening a specialty ...
• Lament for a dead princess
  I dread dog stories. I don’t mean I hate dogs, or reading about them, but I always get the feeling dog stories annoy a lot of people. Must we ...
• Turmel turmoil a tempest in a teapot
  Break out the tar and feathers. Nycole Turmel is a separatist.Well, not exactly a separatist. But she was a member of separatist parties in ...
• I’m still mad as hell
  “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” — George Orwell, “Nineteen-eighty-four”Physical ...