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• Slacker Friday: Jena Aftermath Edition

  Published: September 21, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Electoral Reform, Canadian Politics, Political Philosophy, The Jam, Mmp, Protests, Race, Jena Six, Racism, Slacker Friday, Civil Rights

  to be especially hard for Canadians, I suspect, but it’s true–not all centrists are pragmatists, and not all pragmatists are centrists. And there are many pragmatic solutions to problems that don’t fall at the midpoint on a left-right continuum. What pragmatism actually is, then, is choosing solutions to policy problems

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• UN Gives Canada A Failing Grade On Housing

  Published: October 23, 2007, 9:39 pm

  Tags: Neoliberalism, 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Homelessness, Miloon Kothari, Stephen Harper, Canada, Canadian Politics, Paul Martin, Poverty

  body, an expression of Canadian society.” The Stephen Harper Party has since eagerly run with this Neoliberal narrative, takingit to pathological extremes. As pale @ A Creative Revolution rhetorically asks: How many pre-conceived notions about the homeless and those living in poverty have taken on the perspective of

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• Slacker Friday: Message Received, Loud And Clear

  Published: November 2, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: Canadian Politics, Harper, Australia, Africa, Slacker Friday, Death Penalty, Canada, Racism, Human Rights

  on Thursday that the Canadian government would no longer seek clemency for Ronald Allen Smith or any other Canadians facing the death penalty abroad “People should be held responsible for their crimes in other democratic jurisdictions and we will not interfere with their process when there has been a fair trial.“ - slimy

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• You can only take these as signs of how the government wants to be seen.

  Published: November 8, 2007, 9:55 pm

  Tags: Ideologue, Values, Stephen Harper, Canadian Politics, Death Penalty, Canada, Foreign Policy

  announced last week that the Canadian government would no longer seek clemency for Canadians on death row “who have been tried in a democratic country that supports the rule of law” (ie, the United States), Conservative PM Stephen Harper tried to assure a skeptical public that he harboured “no desire to open the debate on

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• Yes, In Our Name

  Published: November 16, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Taliban, Isaf, Hannah Arendt, Eichmann In Jerusalem, Conservative Party Of Canada, Nato, Detainees, Canada, Afghanistan, Canadian Politics, Stephen Harper, Torture, Human Rights

  prisoners handed over by Canadians soldiers were held, had been fired after charges that he raped juvenile detainees. Cosmetics and hashish were found in his office. He was exonerated because an Afghan military judge said it was “impossible for a drunken man in his 50s to commit an act of rape,” reported a Canadian official in a

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• Happy Democracy Fatigue Day

  Published: March 5, 2008, 7:46 am

  Tags: Barack Obama, Election, Alberta, Canadian Politics, Mccain, Politics, Clinton, 2008

  a (supposedly) dissatisfied Canadian electorate will do when pushed against the wall by (apparently) shoddy leadership: stand up and reward the incumbent party with 88% of the legislature on 53% of the popular vote (I truly heart first past the post). But I’m sure the other 59% had much better things to do yesterday instead of casting a

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