Going, going, gone
Every day I read how somebody is changing my country. No peacekeeping? the illegal war on Iran was “worth it”? Sustainability is unsustainable? Speed trumps democracy and the legal and moral duty of free prior and informed consent. A pipeline is a nation building project but not fixing healthcare or addressing the climate crisis. Hate, … Continue reading
Forget the elbows already
It’s time to stop talking elbows and start the overdue discussion on the Canada we want and what it will take to take back our future. I have never much liked the elbows up talk that seemed to help Carney become Prime Minister. The analogy makes me think of a hockey player squeezed on the … Continue reading
The Power of the Powerless
Whatever one thinks of PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech, it served to resurface Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless just when we most need reminding of the power of collective action whenever people decide that better is not just necessary but possible. Havel wrote about how ideologies can hold us not because we believe the … Continue reading
A Practical Guide for Building a More Resilient Canada
For anyone looking for some concrete ideas on how to build a less dependent, more just, and sustainable Canada, I am linking to the work of the Elbows Up Forum. Yes there is an alternative to the tax cutting, privatizing, austerity agenda that continues to shape public policy and discourse. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/elbows-up-a-practical-program-for-canadian-sovereignty/
Elbows Up Webinar
About 1000 people joined the Webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit. If you weren’t one of the 1000 here’s a recording of the hour long discussion. Have a look and a listen. And please share it with others. Spread the word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVyUvn8lk0
There is an Alternative: A Better Path to a Better Future
We won’t build a less dependent, more just, sustainable, and resilient Canada following the same path that got us here. We need a new map. Here is a compendium of articles flowing out of the Elbows Up Economic Forum -which was not just about economic policy, recognizing that we must stop treating the economy as something … Continue reading
ELBOWS UP
Just want to alert you to a webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit – an alternative to the corporate view of how to build a more resilient Canada – held in Ottawa last month which we (Pledge for Canada) were proud to co-sponsor and participate in. Here’s a link to the backgrounder prepared … Continue reading
Part 3: AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE
Part 3: Looking for optimism in troubled times So, where are we and where are we headed? Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, writing in prison in the 1930s when liberal democracy was under siege and fascism on the rise (sound familiar?), described these in between times as an interregnum, the old world dying, the new world … Continue reading
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- Preston Manning, 84, turns up with yet another ‘assembly’ to polish Alberta’s tarnished separation referendum
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- Pundits’ Guide to Canadian Elections
- Minority Math is Hard on the Liberals
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- A hat-trick of double-takes on the ballot
- UPDATED: The State of the Slates
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- UPDATED: Why a new Québec-based party is running in the Peterborough by-election, and other unintended consequences of sloppy law-making
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