Rabble.ca NOVEMBER 14, 2008

When Canada’s Parliament opens next week, there will be a new influence exerted by Canada’s slumbering giant, the labour movement. (Keep reading…)

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Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 151 October 30, 2008

Nathan Rao

In these difficult times, those of us on the radical Left have learned to be grateful for tender mercies. And so it goes with the results of the October 14th federal election. A few bits of good news immediately come into view: the hard-Right crew around Stephen Harper was denied a majority government; and the main beneficiaries of the majority rejection of the Conservatives were not the centre-Right Liberals, whose crisis continues unabated, but rather the nominally social-democratic NDP, the sovereignist Bloc Québécois and the vaguely left-liberal Greens. (Keep reading…)

Global Research, October 29, 2008 (Keep reading…)

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http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/10/06/CoalitionTime/

TheTyee.ca (The Tyee independent daily online magazine) October 6, 2008 (Keep reading…)

TheTyee.ca October 1, 2008

In February 2003, the vice-president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in Canadian Senate hearings, said that de facto integration of Canada with the United States was here already “whether many Canadians realize it or want to accept it” and, anyway, we don’t need “duplicate systems of approval.” (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press October 3

If the U.S. financial crisis has, for the moment, trumped the presidential elections as the issue of the day, it is reducing the Canadian election to something of a sideshow. Yet, if political paralysis in the U.S. allows financial crisis to turn into a general economic crisis, Canadians may regret not paying closer attention to matters closer to home. (Keep reading…)

globeandmail.com October 3, 2008

This election is like a snapshot of Canadian political culture. You don’t see it standing this still very often. Snap it fast. (Keep reading…)

Spcial to Canadian Dimension October 1, 2008

As a close neighbour and trading partner of the United States, Canada is expected to be greatly affected by the US financial turmoil. Canada is already loosing many jobs in the manufacturing and tourism sectors, and the job losses are sure to spread much further. The Canadian economy is already flirting with recession with the lowest GDP growth for the first six months of 2008 in the OECD except for Italy. (Keep reading…)