Pity Russell Wangersky. Somebody is telling Russell he is part of the elite and Russell doesn’t like it. Not me, writes Russell, in one of his columns last week. No elite here. And to prove the point, he rattles off the mundane list of things that make up his
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Dead Wild Roses: Women’s Agency – Let’s Look in the Right Places – Janice G. Raymond
The choice of which battles to fight reflects on how one views society and how it is constructed. Here is what going to the root of problem and starting one’s analysis looks like. “Radical feminists have never denied the agency of women under conditions of oppression. But radical feminists have located women’s agency, women’s making […]
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives: Only The Rich Can Benefit From Nonprofits
Conservatives believe Justin Trudeau is wrong to take money from nonprofit organizations because to them that’s the job of rich investors on Bay Street. According to this current government and its recent announcements on social impact bonds the only people who should be making money from nonprofit organizations are financiers,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives: Only The Rich Can Benefit From Nonprofits
Conservatives believe Justin Trudeau was wrong to take money from nonprofit organizations because to this government that’s the job for rich investors on Bay Street. According to the Conservatives in power in Ottawa and their recent proposal for social…
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives: Only The Rich Can Benefit From Nonprofits
Conservatives believe Justin Trudeau was wrong to take money from nonprofit organizations because to this government that’s the job for rich investors on Bay Street. According to the Conservatives in power in Ottawa and their recent proposal for social impact bonds the only people who should be making money from
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Just Trust Us
We all remember the abortive attempts by Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, to find out specifically how federal budget cuts were going to affect programs. The Harper regime was of the view that such detailed information wasn’t to be shared, despite the pesky expectations that a putative open democracy tends
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