We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.