Shop Canadian Or Shop Thrift! A Warning To Retailers!
Darwinian Capitalism always seems to find new ways of amazing me as well as enrage me. Today it was announced that 700 Sears employees and 700 Bestbuy employees would be…
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Watch Out! Mayor Ford Is Hungry!
So, what do you know…Canadian politics has decided to take a huge u-turn and Rob Ford has won his appeal to remain Mayor of Toronto. Whoever thought having a legal…
OSAP (In)security…Students As Second Class Citizens?
Earlier this week I was given the notification that my name was included on a list of around 500,000 individuals who signed up for a loan from OSAP between the…
Adult Assembly Required: Idle No More?
Why the “Idle No More” movement is not only making Canadian politics more interesting, but also giving Canadians a chance to take a closer look at their own social groups.…
Why The NDP Are Going To Win The Next Ontario Election
10 years, I want you to remember this while you read my entry. 10 years is very important in anyone`s life for many reasons. In a decade a lot can…
A Letter for 2013
Anthony Passaretti The Political Road Map Canada Dear Fellow Canadians, With the holiday season behind us and the new year with us, I write this letter to you, with the…
The Essence of Innocence…Why Good People Become Targets
December 14, 2012, While many of you were busy spending money on Christmas gifts or at work like myself, a young man, armed with an arsenal of weapons and his…
What Israel/Palestine Need are an Icon
I get it, your wondering why I am still blogging about this topic after the media has already seemed to forget about it in it’s entirety! My answer to you…
Rob Ford Is Not Out…Only You Can Guarantee That!
I CHOOSE YOU! People of the blogosphere and the vast and complicated landscape known as politics! Why? Simply because Mayor Rob Ford is not guaranteed out of the top spot…
You/I Say Israel, I/You Say Palestine…
Nothing like a Friday night to show off an example of the power of politics! If you haven’t already heard about the renewed fighting in Gaza between the Palestinians and…
To My American Friends: A Day Before The Election, What Is Up?
To all of my American friends (All 3 of you), how have you been? I know it’s been a tough past four (4) years, well…let’s be realistic, the past twelve…
Social Boxes…Political Boxes…They All Look Just the Same…
. Here at the Political Road Map, I try and incorporate a continual theme that reflects on three fundamental questions: Where did we start? Where are we? Where are we…
Thank You Mr. Harper, But No Thank You
Apparently, Either Stephen Harper or his staff take the time to read this blog and have apparently decided to take from it ideas to contribute towards their policy making. For…
My Dinner with Joseph Kony 2012
KONY 2012 In the above link I present to you a movie that over one hundred million people have viewed over the past six months. The YouTube video created by…
Canada…The Bank Country?
I happen to just get the blogger app for my android, when I noticed that the first thing you get when you search Canada in the app store is a…
Why the Republicans Should Take Notes from Quebec
Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan have been traveling America promising a more appropriate recovery and an overall better America, if they are chosen in the upcoming election…
Why the Feminist Movement Needs Strong and Independent Men Now, More than it Never Did Before
I start off today’s entry with various questions revolving around the feminist movement and how it compares today from when it first took off. Can we as a society truly…
Red Dragon Falling
Has China clipped it’s own economic wings? In previous posts, I have mentioned on more than one occasion how I feel about China and it’s current economic platform. Yes, many…
A World United By Language(s)?????
The disappearance of language was a featured article and overall topic in this month’s National Geographic. The planet is losing a large number of mostly native languages to globalization and…
Viva Les Students Des Quebec!
I am going to keep this one simple: You have heard about those students in Quebec…they have been protesting for about 3 months now over the proposed increase in tuition.…