David Robertson

1 month ago | socialistproject.ca | David Robertson

Canada, Environment  •  May 12, 2025  •  The last time the nuclear industry got its way in the province, Ontario Hydro spent over two decades building 20 nuclear reactors. It was a mash-up of missed deadlines, cost overruns, and a troubling pattern of declining nuclear performance. Even more troubling, the last generation of nuclear reactors forced Ontario Hydro to the edge of bankruptcy. And it saddled us with a mountain of nuclear debt that we are still paying off.

1 month ago | themoderatevoice.com | David Robertson

Donald Trump proved that he is all crass and no class when the White House posted online an image of him as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Granted, Trump is defintely a pope to his current supporters if not their messiah. Now that Pope Leo XIV has arrived on the global scene, it should be interesting to watch how Trump reacts to him. In his 08 May 2025 report for The New Republic, Malcolm Ferguson describes the various social media posts made by the new Pontiff proir to his election.

2 months ago | themoderatevoice.com | David Robertson

Be careful about who you vote for. You just might get him. This is especially true if you voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is learning that lesson the hard way. On 18 April 2025, Gov. Sanders wrote a letter to President Donald Trump, in which she asks the POTUS to reverse his administration’s decision to NOT declare the state of Arkansas a federal disaster area after a series of storms struck that state.

2 months ago | themoderatevoice.com | David Robertson

How should members of Congress respond to the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García? Should they respond with futile demands? What makes a demand futile is this: The one making the demand is unable to punish the target of the demand for refusing to give what is demanded. In order for a demand to be effective, there has to be the ability to punish for failure to comply. Yet, people are always making demands that are futile, and the only parties profiting from such demands are the media outlets reporting them.

2 months ago | themoderatevoice.com | David Robertson

One does not have to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church in order to acknowledge that Pope Francis was a decent person. Indeed, Francis lived up to the original meaning of the word Pontifex, which translates into English as Bridge Builder. This blogger remembers the stark contrast between Francis and his immediate predecessor that was revealed when Francis assumed the office of the Roman Catholic Church’s Pope. That difference was in the style of each man.