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July 12, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: That Will Take Some Doing

http://bookdome.com/ Stephen Harper came to Ottawa like a

July 11, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Moody Blues

No sooner had the newly elected Kathleen Wynne tabled her budget than Moody’s — the bond rating agency — pounced. But, Linda McQuaig writes, it wasn’t much of a pounce: In fact, Moody’s only tweaked things slightly — it maintained Ontario’s perfectly acceptable current rating (Aa2), but downgraded the outlook

July 10, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Is He An Automaton?

http://www.citynews.ca/ Tommy Douglas’ grandson — Kiefer Sutherland — has his own television show, 24. Stephen Harper also has his own show, 24/7. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Prime Minister Stephen Harper stars in every episode, although other cabinet ministers occasionally make cameo appearances, as do Canadians with something positive, even glowing,

July 9, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: The Circus May Soon Be Over.

http://www.aol.com/ Since emerging from rehab, Rob Ford

July 8, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Punitive Moral Absolutism

distractify.com I don’t agree with

July 7, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Going After The Courts

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ Lawrence Martin wrote last week that the Supreme Court is the Harper government’s real opposition. And today,

July 6, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: He’s Not New and Improved

http://www.torontolife.com/ Rob Ford is a little thinner. But, in the interviews he did last week, you

July 5, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Wynne’s Two Headed Beast

http://community.businessfightspoverty.org Kathleen Wynne’s budget is a two headed beast. One head talks about investing in infrastructure and training. The other head talks about spending restraint. As with

July 4, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Before It Stops

http://www.reliance-trust.com/ The ground is shifting. Jeffrey Simpson writes that the Conservatives still have “yellow dog”

July 3, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: It Takes Imagination

http://www.aoga.org When it comes to climate change, Murray Dobbin writes, knowledge isn’t the problem. We have plenty of it. And it’s growing everyday: We have seen especially alarming predictions in the past few months. Two studies released almost simultaneously claim with a high degree of certainty that the glaciers

July 2, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Inequality Is Not Inevitable

http://www.scriptonitedaily.com Milton Friedman and his disciples worked very hard to transform economics from a social

July 1, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Canada’s Veterans On Canada Day

http://www.cbc.ca As we celebrate our good fortune

June 30, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Stephen Harper’s Legacy

http://greeceandworld.blogspot.ca/ Michael Harris has written a devastating indictment of the Harper regime. The piece is a little long. After all, the man has done

June 29, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Contempt And Criminal Justice

http://xray-delta.com Eddie Greenspon and Anthony Doob write that Stephen

June 28, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Nation Of Laws

DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS This week’s Supreme Court decision is not a blanket rejection of pipelines. It’s more complicated and far reaching than that. Tom Walkom writes: First, it doesn’t exclude aboriginal lands from provincial laws. Provinces are free to make laws about matters like oil drilling

June 27, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Grasping, Grungy and Gloating

The Harper Spin Machine marked Michael Ignatieff’s return to Harvard this week by releasing an attack ad which it didn’t use when he was Liberal leader. The idea was, “We told you he was just visiting.” Ignatieff’s return to Canada turned out to be a very bad idea — both

June 26, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Politically Inconvenient

Hypocrisy is at the heart of the Harper regime. That hypocrisy was on display once again this week when John Baird — the prime minister’s bullhorn — declared that, in the case of Mohamed Fahmy, bullhorn diplomacy wouldn’t work. Harper has been using his bullhorn against the tyranny of Vladimir

June 25, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Wherever He Goes

With two recent decisions, Tasha Kheiriddin writes, Stephen Harper may have lost B.C — and beyond. His first decision — to approve Northern Gateway and then disappear — has stoked growing opposition to the project: The Tories’ sotto voce approval might be a sign not only of Gateway’s mortality but

June 24, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: A Nation Of Yes Men

From her new perch at the University of Calgary, former Liberal leadership hopeful Martha Hall Findlay suggests that building the Northern Gateway pipeline is really a nation building exercise. But Andrew Nikiforuk — an Albertan of much longer standing than Findlay — suggests that the province which now thinks of

June 23, 2014 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: Old Joe’s Advice

Old Joe Kennedy reportedly told his son, the president, “It’s not who you are that matters. It’s who people think you are.” Old Joe was a master of self promotion. It made him rich and it opened the doors to the corridors of power. The prime minister has taken Old