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With apologies to CBC, I'm going to pull a John Longhurst here and link to my blog which links to the news article. If you didn't catch the leader's debate, please watch it here. Facebook's media ban is putting a serious crimp on our election, meaning that the vast majority of political messages you get are paid for campaign ads rather than journalistic reports on announcements, interviews with both leaders and laypeople, etc. Don't go into this election uninformed. And then take in the post-election debate analysis.

Apologies to CBC Ideas and Astra Taylor for my half-baked musings on and possibly poor recounting of her stimulating and inspiring presentation, in service of my need to exercise my writing and reflection muscles. Unlike the Greek myth of Prometheus which suggests human exceptionalism, the Roman story of Curia’s gift in equipping humans is that makes insecurity an inescapable part of the human condition. “We are fated to worry,” says Astra Taylor, at this year’s Massey lectures (2023). Security, by etymology, is the absence of care: sine curitas. Without worries. But we carry our creator Curia always with us, and so we live in a state of existential insecurity. It cuts both ways, says Astra Taylor. We are by nature dependent on others, for good and ill. We are by nature vulnerable to psychological wounding – again, for good or ill. Insecurity can inspire in us compassion, stemming from our own vulnerabilities, or contempt of them that leads to all sorts of compulsions to obviate o...