The UN and Bully Politics

ByDoug Anderson International Relations

Stumbling towards a World Federation in which NO country can veto Peace

Doug Anderson

Jun 30, 2025

When I was in high school in the early 60s, The United Nations Association of Canada was running a model UN for High School students. There were 70 or 80 high schools in Toronto at the time including public, separate and private, and each school sent a delegation representing a member country of the UN. Each school studied their country and its foreign policy and debated the issues accordingly.

It was a big deal involving several hundred students. We met on Sunday mornings through the school year and developed policies to solve the world’s problem. We tackled the world’s thorniest issues like Nuclear Disarmament, Refugees (there were already 100s of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in camps throughout the Middle East), Human Rights (apartheid in S. Africa was an emerging issue – Nelson … More

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Behold! The Naked Ape

ByDoug Anderson Evolution, Health

Survival of the Fittest: A Primer on Evolutionary Medicine

Doug Anderson

Jun 16, 2025

Evolutionary medicine is a legitimate but rather obscure branch of medicine. It studies humans and their ailments from the perspective of where we came from originally.

Homo sapiens evolved on the savannas of Africa about 300,000 years ago. Just to put the timeline in perspective, Christ lived 2,000 years ago so our species came into existence 150 times that ago. And moreover our species was preceded by several less developed Homo species over a period of several million years.

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The first humans probably did not wear any clothes and lived in the open unless they could find a convenient cave for shelter. We were hunter gatherers. The food we ate was mostly eaten raw (in spite of the fact that earlier Homo … More

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Reforming the Canadian Federation

ByDoug Anderson Canada, Lateral Thinking, Paradigm Shift
Francophone and Indigenous Canadians and Cultural Sovereignty

Doug Anderson

Jun 02, 2025

When I wrote my submission to the Spicer Commission on Canada’s Future back in 1991, the main issue at the time was Quebec separatism. Indigenous issues were peaking over the horizon but were still a relatively low priority in spite of the Oka crisis having occurred only a year earlier. Oka was the first time that indigenous rights had become the focus of national attention and was well before the Truth and Reconciliation, Commission in 2008. The more recent tensions between the Wetʼsuwetʼen people in BC and the Coastal Gas Link pipeline shows that we really didn’t learn much from Oka which was over a small parcel of land that a private developer wanted for expansion of a golf course.

In researching this article, I was somewhat surprised to find references to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples … More