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My Take-Away from the System Change Initiative
There are of course many different but complementary take-aways from the Council of Canadians System Change Initiative: systemchange.ca. This is a summary of what seems salient if not crucial to…
Finding New Strategies for Progressives in Canada
A few weeks back, Andrew Coyne wrote an excruciatingly epideictic column for The National Post on the virtues of free trade in general, stressing in the process how virtuous CETA…
Peak Everything and a Perpetual No Growth Economy
Many heterodox economists and post-carbon researchers – most notably Richard Heinberg in several books but particularly in his seminal The End of Growth and Chris Martenson in The Crash Course…
McGuinty-Redford Dollar-Tar Sands Dance
Wouldn’t a lower Canadian dollar encourage both foreign investment in Canada and investment and saving by Canadians in Canada where purchasing power would be stronger than in a foreign market?…
Weaver’s Data is on #tarsands is Incomplete: It’s not the Whole Picture
As I predicted, there was much hype this week about Andrew Weaver’s research from the oil industry and some specious logic from a few suckered journalists who hopped on the…
Moral Distinctions Matter in the Toews-Social Media Brouhaha
It’s important to make a moral distinction between the actions of Vikileaks30 and Anonymous – the latter’s actions clearly constituting an overt and hostile threat – instead of lumping them…
The Response to Toews’ List Should be one of Absolute Outrage
http://goo.gl/qswg The response from both the media and politicos to Toews’ list seems remarkably tepid to me. Shouldn’t an appropriate response be one of absolute outrage? I certainly consider this…
Gateway is Certainly in Sinopec’s Interests. It is in No way in Canada’s National Interests
Defenceless: Selling Our Sovereignty Glavin’s been writing a series of articles on our retreat from even gesturing in the direction of national security interests in our trade and foreign investment…
Overlapping Agendas and Neoliberal Markers
This is a brief addendum to my last post. Of course four other obvious neoliberal markers that precede the four mentioned in that post are TFSAs, proposed PRPPs – both…
Most Commentators and Economists Say Threshold Change for OAS is Unnecessary
Surveying recent media coverage including economists referenced or interviewed, one will discover that roughly 9 out of 10 commentators argue that the age threshold for OAS does not require changing…
The Assault on the OAS is the Beginning of an Attempt to Strengthen Neoliberal Principles
Yesterday on CTV Question Period, Dan Gardner’s argued that it a was good thing to raise the entry level for the OAS by at least two years because everybody else…
Some Canadians are snoozing while Harper continues his destructive crusade through democracy, the environment, and the Canadian economy; but not all
As Susan Riley suggests in the Citizen today, most Canadians are snoozing through President Harper’s vicious assault on democracy, the environment, and, more noticeably recently, the Canadians economy. If you’ve…
Debt Continues To Smother Us All Thanks to the Banksters
So here’s how it works. Although coming off record profits in 2011, Canadian banksters have decided to nickel and dime us in 2012 with their new chequing and ATM fees.…
Keystone, Northern Gateway pipelines raise questions that need answers before approval
The Star: This is the most realistic and sensible perspective I’ve seen on the environment-oil-pipeline dilemma. Olive is right: oil as our primary source of energy is not going to…
More Figures Illustrating Harper Regime’s Economic Mismanagement
Okay, here are some new revelations adding to what I’ve enumerated before. This is probably no surprise given the misguided law and order agenda and the Harperites’ fondness for locking…
The Harper Regime is Playing Dangerous Game
By unleashing strident propagandistic messages aimed nominally at environmentalists but really anyone opposed to or even questioning of the Gateway pipeline, the Harper Regime is playing a dangerous game in…
Yeah, right, President Harper and his Stepford Wives Are Such Good Economic Managers
Let me get this straight. This past week we learned that the Harper Regime spent $53.8 million in 2009-10 spinning their “Economic” Action Plan to a gullible populace – a…
Cuts for Cash: Think about how absolutely appalling and hypocritical this tactic is
Cuts for cash: it can only spur mangers to propose even deeper cuts. Only a nasty neoliberal would use the profit motive to conduct what is supposed to be a…
Five Lumps of Coal for Canada’s Economy
The recent IMF Report on Canada prompts me to remind everyone of some startling figures about the Canadian economy: 1) The private and federal debt combined ratio to GDP is…