Thursday, June 26, 2014

Taking Back Sovereignty

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Now, thanks to Thomas Picketty's highly influential study, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , we have historical confirmation that ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Congratulations Ontario For Having Successfully Outsourced the Governance Function

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Way to go Ontario!  When it comes to thwarting democratic rule in Canada, you continue to lead the way. Not only did Ontarians peviously...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Unlanded Gentry Have Captured North America's Political Economy

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During the first few decades of the industrial revolution in Britain, it was the landed gentry that ruled.  They did not have the good fort...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

In America Being Fat Is Like Being Poor: It's Your Fricken Fault

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At some point in time, probably not in the immediate future, the Anglo-American world is going to wake up to the fact that no man, nor no ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Falling Into the Fat Trap

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This week we saw some startling figures concerning obesity rates around the world. Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwi...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

In the End, Quebecers Are Not All That Different From the Vast Majority of Canadians: They Prefer To Be Governed Than To Govern

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Mercifully, this sorry spectacle of a general election in Quebec is over.  I can't remember a campaign so empty of any real debate as ...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

Thanks But No Thanks Quebec: Take My Ballot And Shove It

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Well, I have decided not to vote in this charade of an election.  My principle reason is that my vote does not count -- it is totally inef...