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By Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
January 25, 2006
Harper may be PM, but the winner is left-wing Canada.
Something must be right. It’s Tuesday morning, post-election, and the sun is shining in Vancouver for only the second time in about six weeks. It sort of fits with my conclusion as I watched the results of the election come in. Canada is a left-wing country.
Bruce Campbell & Seth Klein
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
January 20, 2006
(Note: This article was circulated prior to the election, and is not intended to suggest that this particular Harper-led minority government “is good for Canada,” but rather that majority governments are not the wonderful thing the corporate press make them out to be. –Dispatch)
Is minority government good for Canada? Former Conservative pollster Allan Gregg would have us believe in his Strategic Counsel poll this week that 55% of Canadians (and 64% of Quebecers) think a Harper majority would be good for the country.
One wonders what Canadians
Beginning today, which ever day it may be that you stumble across these words, I plead with you to work together to form a national coalition along the lines of the Bolivian Coalition in Defense of Water, Life, and Basic Services. From the Green Party left through the NDP all the way to the Communist Party of Canada, from environmentalists to anarchists to Marxists, to radical lesbian feminists to social activists of all stripes, including the Council of Canadians, and the Sierra Club, regardless of English Canada/French Canada/andalltheotherimmigrantpopulation Canada backgrounds, plus all the other
Recent material on Latin America indicates Stewart
In Darfur genocide is taking place in slow motion, and there is vast documentary proof of the atrocities.”
By Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Review of Books
A review of:
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
by G
For excellent coverage of the federal election, peppered with a healthy dose of sarcasm and a smattering of strategery (my favourite Will Ferrell Bush-ism), Dru at the Dominion’s keeping the posts coming fast and furious at the Dominion Weblog.
The question is this: if there are energy shortages, in which of the three NAFTA countries are citizens most likely to freeze in the dark?
by Gordon Laxer
Straight Goods
The spike in world oil prices after Hurricane Katrina highlighted the need to plan for coming oil and natural gas shortages. The Americans are discussing how to ensure security of supply. So are politicians in many countries.
But not in Canada. We now have only 8.7 years of proven supply of natural gas. Conventional oil production is falling. Alberta’s tar sands have plenty of oil, but it comes with horrific environmental damage. During an election campaign, Canada’s main political party leaders seem oblivious to Canada’s energy security needs.
For refreshing commentary on this slow motion car crash of an election, check out Dykes Against Harper, one of the many great blogs that are springing up to call it like it is, even as the corporate press lead the stampede towards a Conservative majority while Buzz Hargrove digs himself even deeper into the Liberal muckhole….
We have to refound Bolivia in order to end the colonial state, to live united in diversity, to put all our resources under state control, and to make people participate and give them the right to make decisions… If I become President, I have to swear to respect the laws - and if the laws are neoliberal, I can’t do that.”
–Evo Morales
Aijaz Ahmad
Bolivia: Fire in the Plains, Fire in the Mountains
Frontline
The first part of a series on Latin America
“I would rather be an illiterate Indio than a North American billionaire,” said Che Guevara before he perished in the Andean foothills of Bolivia 38 years ago. Evo Morales, who won the Bolivian presidency by a landslide in the third week of December, is not exactly illiterate, even though the United States’ corporate media like to call him a high school dropout and a “narco-trade unionist”. But he is an “Indio” all right, indeed the first man of full-blooded indigenous origin to be elected President of any Latin American country by universal suffrage. “I am not only a follower of Chavez, but a follower of Castro and a follower of Che as well,” he exults immediately after his massive victory, but then introduces a note of caution: “This does not mean that I am going to implement their programmes here, because Bolivia is not Cuba.”
Doug Cuthand
Monday, January 16, 2006
The Leader-Post (Regina)
This federal election is one of the most important elections for First Nations and Metis people in recent history. Agreements left on the table with the fall of the Liberal government may well fall between the cracks if the Conservative party takes office.
