We will need to fight against market fundamentalism and help our politicians remember that they exist to serve not only the economy, but the people of a country as well. “As we have seen, cutting carbon with carbon pricing or regulation is not politically painless, so the main efforts
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Dead Wild Roses: Alberta Politics: Recent Poll Indicates Albertans Ready to Climb Back Up Into Their Own Asses.
Silly me. I thought Alberta was timidly embracing the idea that the province was going to be run for the benefit of someone other than the corporations and the rich. This latest poll (via the CBC) suggests that many of the people of Alberta want to get back to
Continue readingLeft Over: Shove that Poll Where the Sun Don’t Shine…
Having watched the polls ruin the voter turnout in BC during our last provincial election, seeing that few progressives bothered to vote at all, since the polls were showing a vast majority for the NDP..I am no fan of the damn things… They have been wrong many times, but, right
Continue readingLeft Over: Shove that Poll Where the Sun Don’t Shine…
Having watched the polls ruin the voter turnout in BC during our last provincial election, seeing that few progressives bothered to vote at all, since the polls were showing a vast majority for the NDP..I am no fan of the damn things… They have been wrong many times, but, right
Continue readingcmkl: Niceying up the wealthy so we feel bad for them when we want to tax them more
There’s this refreshing counter-melody threading in and out of the deafening cacophony of rhetoric around cutting our way to greatness and the great quest for lower wages and cheaper stuff. You can barely hear it. But it’s there.
Continue readingcmkl: I admit I was not very excited
About Thomas Mulcair’s victory tonight. But then I read this.
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