Always an original thinker, Rick Salutin offers a very interesting explanation for the record number of NDP candidates elected last Monday.Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: Pension Reform’s Opponents
Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti has written a good article entitled Canadians betrayed on cpp reform that discusses the need for reform to the Canadian Pension Plan and how efforts by the financial industry have convinced the Conservat…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Some Eloquent Refections From A Defeated M.P.
My son sent me this link that, I think, speaks to the sentiments of those deeply disillusioned over the outcome of the election and the shoddy tactics that helped the Conservatives to achieve that outcome.Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Election
I really can’t write anything about the results of the election, other than to say the fact that 40% of my fellow citizens couldn’t be bothered to vote breaks my heart.Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Today’s Opportunity
Just a short message: This is the day we all have the opportunity to make each other proud by turning out to the polls in huge numbers!Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Blowhard Donald Trump Finally Gets His Presidential Comeupetance
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who takes special pleasure in seeing blowhards cut down to size. (Indeed, aren’t most of us hoping for that with Monday’s election results?) Stateside, I can think of no bigger waste of resources and airtime than Dona…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And I Thought I Had Written My Last Blog Entry Before The Election ….
It seems I was wrong. Once more, the disdain Harper has consistently shown for Canadian democratic traditions and norms is made manifest. Click here to read the story and watch the video that demonstrates the on-going threat he and his ilk pose.Recom…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Few Thoughts Going Into The Last Weekend Before The Election
While it would be presumptuous to try to predict the outcome of Monday’s vote, I am heartened by what I perceive to be an awakening of the Canadian electorate. If political polls and advance voting numbers are any indication, we are demonstrating, cou…
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