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Peacekeeping or war-making?
Watching the response of the Canadian government to the catastrophe in Haiti I am sure I am not the only person to see this as a powerful counterpoint to our grotesque participation in the occupation of Afghanistan.
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Obama and Harper: Two book ends of a broken democracy
On Saturday, January 23 at 1 pm in 61 cities and towns, Canadians will hit the street to demand a real democracy in this country. What started as a protest against the prorogation of Parliament is starting to look like a democracy movement.
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Dinosaur man gets his hands on the money
Someone could have made a bundle five years ago betting that Stockwell Day, alias “Doris”, and a man who believes that humans and dinosaurs cavorted together way back when, would be where he is today.
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Evo Morales to be inaugurated spiritual and political leader of Bolivia this week
With the horror in Haiti, we could all use some good news that we will not hear about from the mainstream media.
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A better world is possible only if we can imagine it
The horrible earthquake in Haiti should remind us that for all we detest Stephen Harper and what he is doing to the country we, all of us, are incredibly lucky to live where we do — in a “first world” country. It should give us pause to think that we are wealthy because billions of other people are poor. And there are no poorer or more star-crossed than the people of Haiti. It should also remind us that Haiti might well be further down the road to social justice if it were not for Canada’s shameful complicity in the forced exile of its popular leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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First Prorogue, then Eviscerate
There is, for good reason, a lot of enthusiasm across the country as the groundswell against Stephen Harpers’ cynical shuttering of Parliament continues to grow. The prime minister from hell has gotten away with so much — and the opposition is so weak that any indication of genuine public disgust at his continuing demonstration of contempt for democracy is a welcome sign. And everyone who cares about the country should be taking part in the new movement for democracy.
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Time to join the democracy movement
Stephen Harper is the classic political gambler — he takes chances where others would hold back. It often pays off (like proroguing Parliament in December 2008 to stave off certain defeat by the opposition coalition). But his arrogance often leads to spectacularly bad judgement — such as his attack on culture before the last election which lost him the seats in Quebec that might have given him a majority.
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A powerful grassroots movement for democracy is building in Canada
Am I the only one who saw Stephen Harper’s nose grow on the National last night? As he responded to Peter Mansbridge’s question about how he had changed, he said that partisanship was now really the terrain of the Opposition.
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The Idiot Empire
What happens when an empire is run by people who have a visceral contempt for government and all it stands for? You have an empire that will ultimately fail and collapse because whatever else you might leave to “market forces” administering a global empire and protecting the motherland from attack is not something you want to leave beholden to the profit motive.
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Personal reflections on Gaza, one year later
Just some personal reflections on the massacre in Gaza, and how far we’ve gotten in the last year, and what we’re up against in the Harper government
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