Posted in The Tyee on Jan 28th, 2015
Coming election a chance to register protest by voting in maverick MPs. This is scarcely a novel idea, but I suspect that the federal election this fall will have a new serious player: the Green Party. The Greens have long been a factor, but they haven’t gained any traction until recently. A couple of caveats. […]
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Posted in The Tyee on Jan 26th, 2015
Fix our democracy’s mess, ignore boo birds’ silly myths. We have a dictator at 24 Sussex Drive. So was Trudeau. So was Chretien. In fact, though he had a smile on his face, so was Mulroney. We don’t acquire dictators by a putsch but all nice and legal like under a system which makes them […]
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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 3rd, 2015
There’s big news on the environmental front! Ben West, the eminent young environmentalist until now with Forest Ethics and, before that, the Wilderness Committee, has joined Rex Weyler fighting tanker traffic on the BC coast through Tanker Free BC. This makes a very potent combination indeed. (Full disclosure: My colleague, Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis, is a […]
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