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Needed: More Climate Change Honesty
Prime Minister Harper strikes a strong figure on the world stage these days, doesn’t he? Swift in condemning the barbarity of Isis terrorists and the aggressive unilateralism of Russia; steadfast…
Needed: More Climate Change Honesty
Prime Minister Harper strikes a strong figure on the world stage these days, doesn’t he? Swift in condemning the barbarity of Isis terrorists and the aggressive unilateralism of Russia; steadfast…
Stephen Harper and the "S" Word
Uh oh. Prime Minister Harper is using the “s” word again. After the retrieval of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s body from the Red River in Winnipeg, and the recent discovery of…
Stephen Harper and the "S" Word
Uh oh. Prime Minister Harper is using the “s” word again. After the retrieval of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s body from the Red River in Winnipeg, and the recent discovery of…
Robert Asselin’s rather thin Canada 2020 paper on democratic reform
Robert Asselin is a reputable enough University of Ottawa political scientist, but his paper “An Agenda for Democratic Reform in Canada, ” which proposes mandatory voting and a majoritarian Alternative…
Robert Asselin’s rather thin Canada 2020 paper on democratic reform
Robert Asselin is a reputable enough University of Ottawa political scientist, but his paper "An Agenda for Democratic Reform in Canada, " which proposes mandatory voting and a majoritarian Alternative…
My Letter to the Financial Post
William Watson is an economist who is right to be chagrined by the presence of only one professional economist on the 16-member Economic Advisory Council (“There’s a lot more to…
My Letter to the Financial Post
William Watson is an economist who is right to be chagrined by the presence of only one professional economist on the 16-member Economic Advisory Council ("There’s a lot more to…
The Tsilhqot’in Decision
Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia , announced on June 26, 2014, is the most important case on native rights since the Delgamuukw decision back in December of 1997. Since it…
Chilcotin Decision Underlines Need to change approach to development projects
Vaughn Palmer has written a good column about the legacy of David Vickers. I would like to add the remarkable parallels between David Vickers and Thomas Berger, politically, legally, and…
Have the Conservatives Finally Learned Their Lesson?
The federal Conservative government has been pulling its horns in lately: witness the low-key way the Enbridge pipeline approval was announced recently and how Conservative MPs ducked the media; the…
Margaret Wente’s "Takedown" of Thomas Piketty
Marget Wente’s purported “takedown” of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twentieth Century (Globe and Mail, May 3, p. F2), while anti-intellectual in tone, reminds me of the philosophical arguments made…
The Federal Government and Healthcare Reform
The future of health care may be the most important issue that Canada faces heading into the 2015 federal election year. The 2003 First Ministers’ Accord on Health Care Renewal…
Senator Frum and Minister Poilievre Have a Strange–and Suspicious–Set of Priorities When it comes to Electoral Reform
Senator Frum seems to think that the route to higher voter participation lies not only outside the offices of Elections Canada, but primarily through the mechanism of restoring “integrity and…
What War Means
When I worked as a university instructor in Kiev in the academic year of 1994-95, my students were mostly young adults in their late teens or early twenties, who were…
Three New Thoughts du Jour
Thoughts du jour: 1) Provincial Parti Quebecois and federal Conservatives seem to both be cruising toward majority governments. Harper makes the perfect foil for Quebec separatists, given his low popularity…
The Audacity of Audacity
When Stephen Harper writes his memoir, I suggest that he call it The Audacity of Audacity. ( I was originally going to suggest that title for Christy Clark, but maybe…