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August 22, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Randian

http://chronicle.com/ The death of Tina Fontaine has once again sparked demands

August 21, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Refusing To Follow The American Model

http://www.veteranstoday.com/ From the start, the F-35 was a testosterone fuelled dream. Jonathan Manthorpe writes: The F-35 concept was born of

August 20, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: One Turn Deserves Another

http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/ The time has come, Lawrence Martin writes, for Michael Sona to name names. If he doesn’t, the Harper party

August 19, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Acknowledging the Irrational

At the centre of classical economics is the notion that man is a rational decision maker. Thus, economics is all about creating incentives. If you lower taxes, people will have more money to spend and the economy will become a virtuous cycle. But the “dead money” sitting atop the Canadian

August 18, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Bad Moon Rising

http://www.scenicreflections.com/ You know the Conservatives are in trouble when Ian MacDonald says they are. No Liberal or Dipper, MacDonald got into politics as a spokesman for Brian Mulroney and as an ardent supporter of his high school classmate, Jim Flaherty. But now he is worried. The latest EKOS poll

August 17, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: They Call That Stupid

Droves of baby boomers — myself included — have lamented the political disengagement of the young. But, in the light of Michael Sona’s conviction for election fraud this week, it strikes me that perhaps the young are on to something. Chantal Hebert writes: Electoral politics is a blood sport and

August 16, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Very Dark Place

http://online.wsj.com/ Gerry Caplan has a sober piece in this morning’s Globe and Mail. Its thesis is bleak: “No matter what leaders do, there won’t be peace in the Middle East.” There will be no two state solution, he writes, because both sides are not prepared to give what would

August 15, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Not Just One Bad Apple

nigelroberson.blogspot.ca So Michael Sona is guilty of election fraud, even though the crown prosecutor and the judge both agree that he did not act alone. The Harperites will continue to insist that Sona was just one bad apple. But that meme has become the punchline of a national joke.

August 14, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Hot Air And Bad Law

http://o.canada.com Steve Sullivan writes that Stephen Harper’s obsession with

August 13, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: How Many Canadians Still Read?

http://thegambiaechos.com/ Mark Kennedy reports that one of the pillars of Stephen Harper’s 2015 election campaign

August 12, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Time To Hit The Road?

http://kempton.wordpress.com/ Conservatives — at least those who are capable of sustained thought — are beginning to wonder if now is the time

August 11, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Oil And Democracy

http://www.slate.com/ Oil and Democracy — like oil and water — don’t mix.

August 10, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Princes Of Hot Air

http://dinlarthelwa.org/ The Harper government has been slashing government spending. But, if you take Deep Throat’s advice, and follow the money — to where it’s spent and not spent — Gregory Thomas writes that you get a real portrait of who these people are: Despite the Harper government’s avowed objective

August 9, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Is "Trickle Up" Back?

On Thursday, Paul Krugman wrote that evidence is mounting to support the notion that inequality can sabotage a market economy. There will always be some inequality in market economies. But gross inequality is a drag on economic growth: It’s true that market economies need a certain amount of inequality to

August 8, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: It’s Not Working

http://news.nationalpost.com/ Justin Trudeau’s autobiography will soon hit the bookstores. It’s probably been ghost written and — because it’s appearing now —

August 7, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Nut Gallery

http://www.ctvnews.ca/ They tried, “He’s in over his head.” That didn’t work. They tried,”He’ll sell pot to your kids.” That went up in smoke. Now they’re floating the message that Justin Trudeau “consorts with religious extremists.” According to the Huffington Post: Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino, who recently circulated flyers

August 6, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Caught In A Rut Of His Own Making

http://publications.mcgill.ca/ Stephen Harper claims that his is a steady hand at the economic tiller. But now even the conservative C.B. Howe Institute disputes that claim. Carol Goar writes: But as the government heads into the last year of its mandate, even the prime minister’s ideological allies are beginning to

August 5, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: One Hundred Years Later

nationalpost.com/ Yesterday, the prime minister attended a ceremony to mark Canada’s entry into the First World War. The standard interpretation of Canada’s part in that war is that we blindly followed Britain to war. But we emerged from it a mature, independent nation. Andrew Cohen writes that the one

August 4, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Netanyahu’s Big Lie

http://stopthewall.org/ History is full of ugly ironies. Among

August 3, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The World Is Catching On

http://www.pm.gc.ca/ Rumour has it that CETA — the Canadian-European Trade Agreement — is in trouble. The problem is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism. Germany doesn’t like it. Jim Stanford writes: Germany’s limited experience with ISDS (it was recently sued by a Swedish company for billions in lost profits resulting