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Another political season is over
As you may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much over the last couple of weeks. In part it is the result of having some doubts about what the point is.
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The Incredible Shrinking Country
Is the world, including Canada, headed for the third Great Depression? Watching the results of the Toronto G8/G20 meetings was like hearing news that a giant comet is heading for earth and we are just waiting for impact. Those meetings of the world’s largest and/or growing economies committed governments to massive deficit reduction in spite of the real concern that we are facing a the possibility of a so-called “double-dip” recession. That possibility is now a certainty.
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Is this what a police state looks like?
Police states don’t appear full blown, over night. They are, like any other social phenomenon, part of social and political process – the end result of a long term corruption of the political culture and the incremental diminishing of democracy.
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Asbestos: Quebec Labour’s Shame
Asbestos kills more people worldwide by far, than any other industrial material. And that includes Quebec, where 55 per cent of all worker fatalities in 2009 were caused by asbestos. Yet the entire Quebec labour movement aggressively supports this killer industry.
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Canadian Nightmare: Fox News North
If things go according to right-wing Quebec millionaire Pierre Peladeau’s plans the Republicanization of Canada will, in the near future, take another giant leap. Peladeau is planning to launch an all news channel which has been dubbed ‘Fox news north.’
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Jack Layton’s leadership test
Today, Tuesday June 15, is a day the NDP‘s Jack Layton will face a leadership test. He is poised to make a decision to punish one of his MPs and it could stain his leadership for a long time to come.
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Fire the Managers
Where are the leaders? Canadians, I think, are desperately looking for someone who can demonstrate that they have done some serious and thoughtful thinking about what kind of country we want to build. But political leadership of that kind seems to be a thing of the past.
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Human rights—1; Christian right—0
A Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision on Friday reinforced the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms just as Stephen Harper is doing his best to erase the whole notion from the political map.
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Let the (coalition) games begin
After falling in the polls for weeks the leader of the Liberal Party seems finally to have received a reality check about his and his party’s future. He is actually talking about the possibility of a coalition. Mind you, it took a rumour of a merger of the parties to get things really out there.
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A response to the Bankers’ Association
When is a bank bail-out not a bailout? When the Canadian bankers’ Association President, Nancy Hughes Anthony says so. In her letter to the Vancouver Sun (which published my blog on the issue) Hughes Anthony points out that not a single bank went bankrupt and therefore did not require a bail out.
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