I began my journey to politics as an apathetic, ignorant youth, just as many did before me. I wasn’t interested in the six o’clock news, long-winded articles held little sway over my actions yet luckily these were not the only options. At the age of thirteen I found my saving grace in programs such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and eventually The Colbert Report. I was absolutely blown away, current events didn’t have to be dry and tedious but instead they could be witty and inquisitive and funny. The last is what struck me. Common knowledge tells us at an early age that news isn’t supposed to be funny, it’s supposed to be dead serious, but the more facts I checked, the more I found that these comments made were often more in depth and rightfully critical then any normal anchor could dare to be. I had found my passion.
I leafed through journals, found The Onion even discovered the Rick Mercer Report and all of these seemed very fulfilling, but there was still something missing, an empty hole. I was and am young and I often felt that as young people we weren’t focusing our sarcastic and often slicing humour on politics and as a result most of us could care less. I wanted to change that.
I’ll be looking at politics topics as random and expansive as British visits to poppies to Trudeau. These issues are followed casually, after the fact, not so much as a clear synopsis but instead as kind of an offbeat analysis drawn from current headlines in major Canadian newspapers.
This blog is all about Canadian politics, but from the perspective of a youth and written specifically to Canada’s youth. This isn’t a spot where teenagers will be talked down to, chastised for being apathetic or superficially told that they are the future by people who seem to care little about the future at all. This is a place for unique interpretations, hopefully some helpful information and a whole lot of humour. The difference from every other blog is that this is made specifically by a teenager for young people. It isn’t condescending or contrived and although a brief summary is impossibly I will simply say that it simply is what it is.
