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Politics in an Uncertain Age
Our collective psyche is uneasy these days. It’s been this way at least since the 2008 financial crisis, and might go back as far as 9/11. Signs of economic recovery are tempered by austerity budgets...
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Taxing the Rich
The news is just in: It’s time to tax the rich in Ontario. In exchange for a promise to abstain from voting against the Liberals’ budget, Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath got Premier Dalton McGuinty...
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We Will Not Be Silenced
Canada would be a different place without our 80,000 registered charities dedicated to everything from health to economic policy to the environment. We’d be much poorer without the two million...
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Internet Freedom and the Erosion of Democracy
This week, at least 125 million people are watching the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition of singers from 56 countries across Europe and parts of the former Soviet Union. This year’s...
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In Defense of Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, but he remains holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. If he leaves the compound, he will be arrested and extradited...
View ArticleUnion Bashing Ignores the Facts
The anti-union dogs are baying once again. What set them off this time? Oh, participating in the democratic process. Can’t have that. Some activists in the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the...
View ArticleSecretive CETA Could Be Signed By Year’s End
A few months ago, we posted about the threat the Canada-EU Trade Agreement, or CETA, poses to Internet freedom, and explained why it could be bad for Canadians – it’s a secretive and binding...
View ArticleForfeiting Canadian Democracy
Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through? The problems with the plan to run...
View ArticleWashington: A Silent Capital
There’s only a week to go before election day, but, walking around Washington, you’d never know it. There’s not an election sign or billboard in sight. If you didn’t turn on the television or the...
View ArticleCanadian Democracy: Two Wolves and a Lamb Voting on Indigenous Rights?
It is sometimes quipped that democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. This Darwinian image of vulnerable minorities falling prey to a ‘tyranny of the majority’ is why few believe that...
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