Out with the Guns, In with the Green
I’ve been putting off this article for a week or so, and its been piling up links, so here’s some unsolicited advice from me to the leaders of her majesty’s…
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Response to Canadian Copyright Consultation
The government set up public consultations and a web site for discussion and formal submissions of responses to questions concerning copyright reform. The web site posed five questions, which I…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn't heard of One Member One Vote? Then there's the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn’t heard of One Member One Vote? Then there’s the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn’t heard of One Member One Vote? Then there’s the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Opening the Doors OR Circling the Wagons?
Who hasn't heard of One Member One Vote? Then there's the amendment put forward by the Young Liberal Commission.Jim Curran has started a forum topic at En Famille to discuss…
Coalition! I Was Wrong about Being Wrong
In my last post, I said that I was wrong about Dion’s political strategy in the last election. It turns out that while I wasn’t exactly right, I also wasn’t…
Polishing Up the Political Remains
Looks like I was wrong about Dion’s political strategy. Even if I was right, it didn’t turn out as I thought. I waited until today to proclaim my wrongness because…
Vote Swapping Breaks Democracy
I’ve always thought the concept of vote-swapping was problematic. Not only is it flawed in its own right but treating it as an acceptable strategy is like snuggling up to…
Unravelling Dion’s Political Strategy
Though my attention is tuned to our federal election, this post doesn’t continue the IP political issues I wrote detailing a stance against certain sorts of “intellectual property” regulation (NDP…
Facebook, Scrabble, Scrabulous: Hasbro Unwittingly Makes A Political Point
Dad was always ruining Family Games Night with unwelcome commentaries on economic theory… The ongoing cyberspace PR disaster over Scrabble on Facebook continues, and brings with it (unintentionally) an important…
Facebook, Scrabble, Scrabulous: Hasbro Unwittingly Makes A Political Point
Dad was always ruining Family Games Night with unwelcome commentaries on economic theory… The ongoing cyberspace PR disaster over Scrabble on Facebook continues, and brings with it (unintentionally) an important…
Facebook, Scrabble, Scrabulous: Hasbro Unwittingly Makes A Political Point
Dad was always ruining Family Games Night with unwelcome commentaries on economic theory...The ongoing cyberspace PR disaster over Scrabble on Facebook continues, and brings with it (unintentionally) an important point…
Facebook, Scrabble, Scrabulous: Hasbro Unwittingly Makes A Political Point
Dad was always ruining Family Games Night with unwelcome commentaries on economic theory...The ongoing cyberspace PR disaster over Scrabble on Facebook continues, and brings with it (unintentionally) an important point…
Copyright Reform and the StatsCan Report
Michael Geist posted about the politics in the debate on copyright reform. The point stems from dissonance between the recent Statistics Canada report and a reform-oriented bill expected to introduce…
Red Party Blues, The Liberals in Crisis? – Akaash Maharaj Podcast
TV Ontario's The Agenda debates the question of how long Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party can, or should, endure the Conservative government's electoral brinksmanship. Steve Paikin moderates, as Professor…
Motivating Anti-IP Activism in Canada
In the scheme of things, few people have the interest (or is it patience?) to delve deeply into the concept of “intellectual property” (IP). I think that is why IP…
Power, the People, and the PMO – Akaash Maharaj Podcast
With more than a year of minority government behind us, Steve Paikin and The Agenda assemble a national panel to ask if political power in Canada is still primarily a…
Public Degradation and Public Discourse – Akaash Maharaj Podcast
A CBC Radio One national debate on the decline of civility in Canada's public discourse. More than a question of discourtesy, the decay of the tenor of political dialogue diminishes…
Are Canadian Political Parties Afraid of the Dark? – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
CBC Television's The Hour canvasses Bob Rae, John Tory, Olivia Chow, and me on why Canada has yet to see a visible minority party leader. Ranging from the ridiculous to…