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Fresh Issue for Spring Election: Democracy
In anticipating yet another campaign, it is worth remembering that without the NDP, Canadian politics (outside Quebec) would look an awful lot like the U.S.: two political parties, economically and socially right-wing, both with a recent history of dismantling the activist state and gutting its revenue base through huge tax cuts.
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A party of thugs, liars, cheats, crooks, dirty tricksters—and Christians
Do any of the alleged Christians who support the government of Stephen Harper have any trouble with the fact that his government is the most morally corrupt party in Canadian history?
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Layton caves on corporate tax cuts
When Jack Layton announced yesterday that he was no longer pressing the Harper government to cancel its next round of corporate tax cuts (cost: $6 billion) he revealed that the NDP cannot figure a way out of the trap it has been setting for itself since Stephen Harper got elected five years ago.
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Harper, Autocrat
As tens of millions of Egyptians celebrated their victory over a brutal dictator and began the task of creating democracy, the story from Canada was of democracy going backwards. For five years under Stephen Harper, Canada has been subjected to a systematic erosion of democracy.
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Rousseau, Nasser and the Egyptian revolution
In watching the live streaming coverage of the Egyptian revolution on Aljazeera I am awe-struck by the incredible humanity of what is unfolding in that country. I imagine Jean Jacques Rousseau wandering amongst the throngs of people and being equally amazed and delighted.
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Conservation Voters of BC: Counseling dishonest politics
Yesterday I received an email from the Conservation Voters of BC urging me to join the Liberal Party of BC so I could vote for their next leader. I thought it might be a joke but reading the whole piece it was clear this group was serious. It is one of the most ill-considered and dishonest appeals I have ever received from normally progressive organizations.
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A message for the NDP: Trust the people, be bold, take a risk
Parliament resumed yesterday and Canadians could be forgiven if they decided they would rather stick pins in their arms than watch another round of Stephen Harper’s cynical manipulation compete with Michael Ignatieff’s inept political meandering.
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And then everything changed…
The world is now totally focused on the democratic rebellion in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak sends out the army to deal with demonstrators and what happens? The soldiers, including officers, joined with them, hugging them, kissing them, shaking hands and sharing posters and banners calling on Mubarak to resign, and demanding democracy.
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Why Tax Cuts Make Us Weak
I don’t think I have ever re-cycled a column before but the whole question of tax cuts and all the issues it involves never really changes. In November, 2007, I wrote a column for the Tyee and rabble focusing on Conservative finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s five year tax cut plan. Here’s what I said then. Nothing has changed—except now we have a huge deficit to deal with, and the corporate tax cuts are even more irresponsible.
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Canada in Afghanistan – The Big Lie machine
Our tragic and pathetic Afghanistan adventure is a dramatic commentary on the state of Canadian politics and democracy. If it were just a matter of embarrassment it would be bad enough. But every day we stay there we actually make things worse.
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