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NDPers dreamin’ of victory, ‘trash’ power sharing with Libs
The year 2015 is a long-time away but, considering the many difficulties the NDP has to overcome to win, it is hard to understand why candidates who obviously care about the country would totally rule out the possibility of a coalition government.
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An Election Night I Will Never Forget
So after 50 long years of being on the receiving end of Canada’s archaic first-past-the-post polling, Québec had finally rewarded us with a resounding mandate—probationary, yes, and totally out of the blue—but resounding just the same. After half a century of political intercourse of our two solitudes, the NDP had hit the spot and united the left forces in both nations under one banner!
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Canada’s New Partisanship
On the morning after Election Day, supporters of the Conservative party were able breathe a sigh of relief that their troops were not defeated and replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition. Conversely, the news that Stephen Harper would be heading-up a majority government came as a cold shower to those hoping that a progressive coalition would lead the country into a new day.
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The federal NDP’s electoral breakthrough in Quebec: A challenge to progressives in Canada
If Jack Layton’s election-night speech to his Toronto supporters is an indication of what lies ahead, the NDP is going to have a hard time coming to terms with a parliamentary caucus now composed of a majority of MPs from Quebec.
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What the Election Outcome Means for Québec
The routing of the Bloc Québécois should in no way be read as a sign of the waning of national aspirations in Québec, as many anglo-Canadians seem to believe — including some, like Stephen Lewis, who ought to be politically savvy enough to know better.
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Reflections on the Quebec nation
Quebecois and Quebeckers now live in a nation, however symbolic. All can agree that Quebec sands on the outside; consensus is, however, lacking on whether being on the outside is a good thing. There are clear benefits to Quebec’s cultural and political autonomy, but one cannot overlook the regressive elements within Quebec on this St-Jean-Baptiste Day.
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From Cochabamba to Cancun
The Cochabamba Conference on Climate Change has issued a call to build “a global peoples movement for climate justice”. A novel feature of this call is that it is supported by progressive countries, mainly those of the Alba Alliance (Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, etc), as well as by social movements, primarily but not exclusively, from Latin America.
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Canada’s 1960s
Canada in the 1960s was deeply affected by the civil rights and anti-war struggles in the United States. It was likewise caught up in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements that swept the world. But in this new and commanding work, Bryan Palmer demonstrates that Canada had its own 1960s which left a deep mark on our history.
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Quebec Native Women Statement to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Without the reinforcement of Indigenous women’s role in nation building, there is no assurance that our traditional customs, languages and forms of governance will be perpetuated. Consequently, our identity as Indigenous peoples could be reduced to artifacts in museums. Therefore it is imperative that all states practice in good faith, the process of free, prior and informed consent.
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Accommodations for an Accommodating Nation
The debate in Quebec over reasonable accommodations is, in reality, one of national identity and how to both construct and integrate this young, still-evolving nation. Never before — at least in recent history — has the tension between the Canadian model of multiculturalism and Quebec’s pursuit of the intercultural model been as strong.
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