Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Fuck the Job Count! What People Need Are Living Wages!

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  Every month the charade continues. Governments in North America announce the latest labour market statistics, hoping to pull the wo...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Politics of Greed

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Politics in North America often hides behind the veil of economic discourse.   Underneath the veil is the unmitigated pursuit of self-inte...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Let's Put Politics Where It Belongs: The Political Economy

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The advantage of being able to speak and read in several languages is that you get to see how different cultures divide up the world, a ph...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

It’s the Stupid Economy

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Back at the end of the previous century, before the advent of browsers and search engines, during the 1992 presidential campaign in the ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Has Canada Become a Post-Democratic Petro State?

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Tell me it isn't so Joe.  No can do.  Sadly, over the last 40 years Canada has morphed into a mere shadow of its former self, a nation w...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Not a Fiscal But a Deficit of Empathy That Spreads Misery Across the Land

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The thing about using the economy as the measure of all things is that in doing we institutionalize unbridled greed as the guiding force for...
Monday, January 19, 2015

There Are No Selmas in Cyberspace

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Today is Martin Luther King day in the United States, a civic holiday, and the only one dedicated to the memory of a black man.  This would ...