Canadian politics is a little off the theme of my blog except where it provides an example for American politics. Today it does not do that. However, a big story in Canada today is worth noting because it affects Canada's future as far as the progress of progressivism in the country. NDP (socialist) leader Jack Layton, who in the latest election (that served up Canada's first conservative majority in decades) brought the socialist party to previously unattainable heights, has succumbed to cancer.
