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September 12, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Stunning Inequality

http://rabble.ca/ The Broadbent Institute has just released a study on the distribution of wealth in Canada. Rick Smith, the institute’s director, writes: While the growing income share of the richest 1 per cent often dominates the headlines, looking at the distribution of wealth as opposed to income provides a

September 11, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Welcome To The Harperian Universe

http://americanelephant.com/ The Harper government plans to enter the 2015 election with a hefty surplus. But, Linda McQuaig writes, don’t expect that money to be spent on health care: Medicare, with its principles of equality and accessibility regardless of income, represents values that are the very antithesis of the marketplace

September 10, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: More Poor Choices?

http://zoompf.com/blog Yesterday, the Harper Party released its latest campaign ad. It was Stephen Harper’s steady hand at the tiller, the ad claimed, that has guided Canada through the economic storms of the decade. But Scott Clark and Peter Devries beg to differ. The economy, they write, is dead in

September 9, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Smell Of Desperation

http://notesfromachair.com/ If you want to really know what’s driving the Harperites these days, Devon Black writes, consider the tactics they are using: Twice in the last three months, Conservatives have sent individuals into Liberal events in the hopes of deliberately instigating missteps — while secretly recording the whole thing

September 8, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Things Could Get Very Nasty

http://www.careerbuilder.com/ Canada’s job creation numbers have been dismal. Carol Goar writes: The numbers are striking. Since last autumn, Canada has created 50,000 part-time

September 7, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Dipper Drift?

http://news.nationalpost.com/ In yesterday’s Toronto Star, Chantal Hebert suggested that, if recent events in Ontario are an indication of the party’s future, the NDP

September 6, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: How Many McJobs Go With That?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/ When Burger King gobbled up Tim Hortons two weeks ago, Joe Oliver crowed about Canada’s low corporate tax rates. But, Linda McQuaig writes, Oliver is telling whoppers, not selling them: One might be

September 5, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Et Tu, Brian?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ When Brian Mulroney appeared before a parliamentary committee to explain his connections to Karl Heinz Schreiber, Stephen Harper let

September 4, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: All Hat And No Cattle

http://www.windsorstar.com/ Stephen Harper is in Wales today, bellowing at the Russian bear. NATO will discuss the necessity of increasing defence spending to meet

September 3, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: How Many Friends Does He Have Left?

http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot.ca Jason Fekete reports in this morning’s Ottawa Citizen that the Harper government is stepping up its war on the Parliamentary Press Gallery: The federal Conservative

September 2, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Well Heeled Terrorist

http://abcnews.go.com/ The conventional wisdom holds that violence and terrorism is the inevitable consequence of poverty and ignorance. Cass Sunstein, who teaches law at Harvard, writes that the evidence suggests something entirely different: Most extremists, including those who commit violence, are not poor and do not lack education. Suicide bombers

September 1, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Labour Day 2014

http://www.cp24.com Just what is the state of Labour on this Labour Day? If you were to use Harper government

August 31, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Petro Goose Is Getting Cooked

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/ The oil industry has stopped laying golden eggs. Its profits are being squeezed. That news has not been widely reported. But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, it has been hiding in plain sight on the U.S. Energy Administration website: Last July the government agency, which has collected mundane statistics on

August 30, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Ignoring The Obvious

http://www.breitbart.com/ Stephen Harper has just completed his ninth tour of the North. These tours provide the prime minister with an opportunity

August 29, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: What Do They Do Now?

http://www.pinterest.com/ Justin Trudeau said recently that the biggest threat to global security is “the kind of violence and misunderstandings

August 28, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Ignorance Is Strength

http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/ The central theme of Stephen Harper’s re-election campaign has emerged: Harper against the elites. In his tour of the North, Harper called Justin Trudeau an

August 27, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Simple Solutions Come From Simple Minds

http://brane-space.blogspot.ca/ What is behind Stephen Harper’s war on sociology? Jakeet Sing writes: So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology: that there are no social phenomena, only individual incidents. (This ideology traces back to Margaret Thatcher’s famous claim that

August 25, 2014 Owen Gray

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