Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world.
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Canada
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Once again, we’re in one of those periods wherein Americans get fed up with their own government (or looming government) and declare their intention to move to Canada. It happened the last time Bush Jr. was elected, and the time before that when he wasn’t really elected, but everyone wanted to move to Canada anyhow. Continue reading
This is Crasstalk’s Toronto correspondent reporting. Occupy Toronto protesters have taken over St. James Park, and I decided to go investigate and see what was what.
Where do your rights come from? The courts? The United Nations? Your employer? The ‘people in charge’? Pfft, as if.
No one is going to hand you your rights on a silver platter then check back with you later and ask if everything is still okay. Not gonna happen boychuck. Continue reading
I have some good news. Would you like to be more in touch, more emphatic and sympathetic to the human condition? You can! While the path is not what you would have chosen, the chances are good you’re going to end up there anyways. Come on inside and allow me to be your guide on this journey (dot dot dot)
The recent right wing wins in the Canadian elections seem to have had a negative impact on tolerance for the good things in life. The Puritans that run the parliamentary website have deemed cleavage to be unbecoming of a politician. Though this shouldn’t come as a surprise given that the supreme court wears chin high shirts to ensure against any possible cleavage.
Even though she is a member of the Canadian Parliament, at 29 Rathika Sitsabaiesan can easily be classified as one of the “kids these days” and prone to doing things like lingering on lawns or wearing shirts that dip below chin level. Continue reading
On May 2, 2011, Canadians went to the polls and elected our first majority government since the 2000 election. We re-elected the most right-wing Prime Minister in living memory with essentially unlimited power. Way to go us. Continue reading
Welcome to Flashback Friday. Since everyone seemed to really enjoy the Loverboy videos I posted in the Open Thread I thought we would stay with a Canadian theme today. Continue reading
This will be the first in a multi-part series in Dispatches from Canada about how we organize our country politically, and how we operate our system of parliamentary democracy. This post is going to be about the fundamentals, with the more esoteric stuff saved for later posts. Think of this as a foundation for the posts that come later.
Election Day is today, May 2.
Note: Full disclosure, I am (as mentioned in the comments to the last Dispatch from Canada) a partisan of the NDP. Just so we’re clear.