As of today, Oct 19, 2011, I am Dr. Rawlings. Who wants a prescription? (Disclaimer: not that kind of doctor.) On a serious note, though, this is more a relief than cause for celebration. 6 months of additional revisions post-defense is ridiculous.
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Letter to federal MP Matthew Kellway (Beaches-East York).
Dear Mr. Kellway,I am writing to you as resident of Beaches-East York to express my concerns regarding the government’s Bill C-32, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. While this Bill does make for some reasonable reforms, it contains two serious flaws.F…
Continue readingLetter to Toronto City Councillor, Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32)
Dear Councillor McMahon,I am a resident of Ward 32, and am writing to express my concerns regarding the service-cutting fiscal plan proposed by Mayor Rob Ford. As I am sure you are aware, the Mayor claimed during his campaign that Toronto had a “spendi…
Continue readingOn the Ontario Liberal platform.
I had planned to go point-by-point through the OLP’s platform, like I did the OPC and ONDP. But, well — the platform really wasn’t worth the wait.Here’s the Cliff Notes version:Harris was awful — never named, just “previous PC governments”, which is …
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Dark Tranquillity, “Iridium” Click Here To Watch The Video
Continue readingOn small parties.
Short one today, as I’m trying to work through dissertation revisions. But I thought it was worth noting how few of Ontario’s registered political parties have bothered to put together a platform as yet. It’s kind of sad, given that we have fixed elect…
Continue readingOn the Green Party platform.
Finally — for now, at least, until the Tories and NDP release the rest of their platforms, and the Libs release anything at all — I’m going to take a quick look at the Green Party of Ontario’s platform. It’s the shortest, and the slimmest when it com…
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Chthonic, “Broken Jade”. Ridiculously good vids coming off this album.
Continue readingOn the Ontario PCs’ platform
[Sorry for the double-post. Had some unfixable errors in the previous version.]So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don’t know, and I don’t think they do, either.According…
Continue readingOn the Ontario PCs’ platform.
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook. Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don’t know, and I don’t think they do, either.According to this, Tim Hudak was a Customs Officer at the Peace Bridge. I knew there was a good reason …
Continue readingOn the Ontario NDP’s 2011 platform.
Okay. The Ontario NDP’s platform. The Plan for Affordable Change (warning: PDF). Jeez, focus-group that name much? I’m splitting this into the four areas that the ONDP did in the platform, for ease of reference.1. Making life affordableYou mean it’s no…
Continue readingMini-hiatus.
Have a work-related project to get done this week, then out of the country next week. Hopefully, by the time I’m back, the Ontario Libs and Greens will have released their platforms. I’ve got the NDP and PC platforms and am hoping to do a complete seri…
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In honour of our beloved majority government. Today, it’s postal workers, unions, and evil communist/socialist hippies! Wait till you find out what we should fear tomorrow!Fear Factory, “Fear Campaign”
Continue readingOn back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.
So, another conservative (note the small “c”) government, another round of back to work legislation. Canada violates its international obligations yet again, and is again grouped with such shining lights of liberty as Colombia. It’s the same old song a…
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Chthonic, “Takao” Click Here To Watch The Video
Continue readingOn governance (4): The courts
Ah, the courts. Probably the only arm of the government that everyone has some contact with at some point or another. Sure, some people go to the House, or visit Rideau Hall, and some people even get themselves elected. But sooner or later, everyone en…
Continue readingOn governance (3): The Crown.
So, yeah. The Crown. This could be a really short post — hell, by my standards, it probably will be.Here’s the thing. Constitutionally, we need the Crown. We can’t get rid of the monarch, or at least the Governor-General, without overhauling the whole…
Continue readingOn governance (2): Parliament
This one’s going to be a little disconnected. The overarching thread, as said yesterday, is figuring out how to adjust our governing institutions to suit the importance of the principle of autonomy — that is, the idea that legitimate government author…
Continue readingOn governance: (1) Principles
How should we govern ourselves? Since Locke’s Second Treatise, the presumption has been in favour of self-government — that is, each individual adult person has the natural right to govern his or her own life. Thus government by others is, when legiti…
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Real life intrudes this week. Next week: something on governance. Been thinking about what might guide Senate reform and all that good stuff.
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