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February 2015
Will the E.U. Again Pull the Rug Out From Under Harper’s Feet?
The European Union’s FQD, fuel quality directive, was once seen as a bitumen killer. It’s intended to encourage the use of lower-carbon oil and to kill off the European market…
Podcast: Leo Panitch on Syriza and Greece
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/podcast150220-leo-panitch.mp3 This week I’ve devoted the entire show to discussing the most recent developments in Greece. While there is a great deal of day-to-day drama at the level of the…
The Parliamentary fashion item of the season!
Pat Martin, Canada’s own Calvin Klein!
Grexit, schmexit: It ain’t gonna happen
For sale? Owner must sell … Right now a battle of Homeric proportions is being waged for the future soul of the European Union. On one side are the Teutonic…
And the Next Nuclear Power in the Middle East Is….
You’re probably thinking Iran. What about Saudi Arabia, the bunch of radical Sunni extremists we consider our close ally? Take it from The Times (of London, of course) where it’s…
Oh, My God! What If We Got This One Completely Wrong?
A recent article in Aviation Week claims that senior officers in the Pentagon are beginning to evaluate whether counter-measures already developed by the two obvious adversaries of the F-35 have…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, February 19, 2015
Your news links for today: “Total Information Awareness”: The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51 – Michael Geist Bill C-51: Political battle lines drawn over anti-terror bill as election nears…
Feeding His Base
Fear fueled Stephen Harper’s victory in 2011. Back then, he stoked fears about a coalition government. This time around, he hopes to surf back to power by fanning two categories…
We Must Not Be Afraid-Elizabeth May -This Legislation is Sweeping, Dangerously Vague and Likely Ineffective-Mulcair
Project Democracy Elizabeth May and Thomas Mulcair have both shown great leadership in standing up against Harper’s reckless, vague and unnecessary Secret Police bill. Send them a thank you by…
On oversight
Since one of the main issues talked about so far in relation to the Cons’ terror bill is the question of oversight, I’ll point back to what I said the…
Diseased Leadership
Almost four years ago I wrote a post on failed leadership, using the Elizabethan notion of The Great Chain of Being as it pertained to the relationship between the governed…
The Loon Lake fire
I don’t get truly outraged very often, but this story truly outrages me. It should outrage you, too. LOON LAKE, Sask. The volunteer fire chief in a Saskatchewan village says…
What is to be done about terrorist bloggers?
The Conservative’s Bill C-51 anti-terrorism act has us worried. Pass it as it is and this blogger will always be wondering when the R.C.M. Police will be breaking down the…
In Friday’s Sun: not me
I’ve been given up for Lent, you might say. As you may have observed, there is a distinct lack of Warren-ness in this week’s Sun papers. So, too, other folks…
New column day
Here, on the Cons’ attempt to spin an election narrative out of a fictional bogeyman rather than protecting or helping Canadians. For further reading…– The National Academy of Sciences offers…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeffrey Sparshott discusses new research into how automation stands to displace workers and exacerbate inequality, while a House of Lords committee finds…
Kill the drummer
Having dispatched more than my fair share over the years, I fully support this effort to kill the drummer. In SFH, both of our are a pain in the ass,…
Ralph Nader to Stephen Harper: What’s Happening to Canada?
In the monstrous darkness of Harperland, and when I read a poll like this one.There’s rarely been a bill before Parliament that was more popular. The public Conservatives’ new anti-terror…
Tom Mulcair, Bill C-51, and the Monstrous Xenophobia of Stephen Harper
It was good to see Tom Mulcair finally take a stand against the Con regime's totalitarian anti-terrorism bill. Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair says the NDP will fight the Conservative government's…