It’s Canada’s ‘fault’ this time.

Genetic testing confirms that the cow diagnosed with the first U.S. case of mad cow disease was born in Canada, agriculture officials said Tuesday.

Now they have to trace the feed.

Canadian Ideology

The Canadian public does have deep ideological preferences, usually from the left, though not potentially unchangeable for that. I grant that in political debates the shorthand use of terms such as “liberal” or “conservative” or “socialist” has much less a swaying effect upon hearers here than perhaps in America or Britain. But that’s rather the point: It’s the language of ideology that most Canadians dislike, and no matter how many voters flatter themselves as being above ideological presumptions, scratch the surface and Canadians bleed ideological blood.

We’re heading into a federal election soon and Mark Milke takes on the language and ideas of Canadians and their politics.