Northern Reflections: Gum On Their Noses

The international community knows by now that the Harper Government — remember, the moniker is now on official documents — is full of navel gazers. And navel gazers aren’t concerned with facts. The ramifications for Canadian foreign policy are deeply disturbing. Natalie Brender writes in The Toronto Star  that: The

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Northern Reflections: Removing All Doubt

At Margaret Thatcher’s funeral this week, Stephen Harper couldn’t resist the opportunity to attack Justin Trudeau. Even though the reporter who asked the question made no mention of Trudeau’s comment that we should try to understand the “root causes” of terrorism, Harper said: “When you see this type of violent

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Northern Reflections: It’s About Selfishness

“The modern conservative,” John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, “is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” He might have added that modern conservatives take extreme measures to hide that exercise.That is why, in yesterday’s budget speech, Jim

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Northern Reflections: No Progressive

The Harperites — not surprisingly — accused Thomas Mulcair of traitorous behaviour when, during his recent Washinton gambit, he did not give his full throated support to the Keystone XL pipeline. He was, they said, damaging Canada’s international reputation. But four of Canada’s former prime ministers have recently suggested that

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