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Video Vigilantism in Vancouver
We don’t have Orwell’s two-way telescreens that you can’t turn off (yet). But we do have facebook.
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Mr Harper finds his whale, the Liberals are lost at sea
Well Mr Harper has found his elusive majority and Mr Layton’s job just got a whole lot harder. Now he must to try to keep the captain from taking the ship over the edge of the known world.
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Pierre Peladeau’s Good Deed for the Day
On April 27th Sun Media newspapers across the country dutifully printed an article written by their President and CEO, Pierre Peladeau. It was a curious piece – half news story and half promo for Sun TV, entitled “All’s not fair in war.” And it raises more troubling questions than it tries to lay to rest.
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Throw the Truthiness Bums Out: The Canadian edition
In November 2006 the New York Times ran a prescient opinion piece entitled, “Throw the Truthiness Bums Out.” At least it was prescient for Canada; for the US it was four years too late.
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When good people do bad things to good people
It seems the only thing that is required for us to do harm to our neighbours is the permission of authority. And the only thing we need to do it again is silence.
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Start with Stories
Understanding the cultural myths of different peoples doesn’t yield more divisive factions; rather, it highlights the many commonalities. If Canadians were to better understand the stories at the heart of Aboriginal culture, acknowledge their perspectives and find common ground, we would be in a better position to find peaceful resolution to the many issues — past and present — that have caused divisions between us.
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Crime and Punishment and Deregulation
The Tories cleverly managed to crack two tough policy nuts with one blow: child care and crime. Earlier they gave single moms $100 a month for child care – it didn’t help much with actually getting child care, but at least it helped pay for Pampers. But never mind. As Rick Mercer pointed out at the time, they have another solution: put the kids in jail.
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