Category: Canada

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October 28, 2008

Unite the Left – Lloyd Axworthy

I’m always loathe to quote from Canwest Media, but Lloyd Axworthy posted this op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen that you might be interested in. I have issue with the notion that the opposition parties have to unite, mainly because their views are too disparate.  As I’ve said before, this is the inevitable ‘long tail’ of politics, where fragmentation of power occurs as a result of […]

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October 26, 2008

The Power of the Internet and the End of Rovian Politics

This is an inspirational piece .  I read it with glee.  Before reading below, here’s a great example of what Ms. Huffington is talking about. Here are some of the details: Thanks to YouTube — and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral emails — it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price, or to run under-the-radar […]

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October 26, 2008

Net Neutrality: TV Broadcasters Oppose Whitespace Program

In the US, TV broadcasters have officially filed their opposition to any plan to leverage available ‘white space’, or unused broadband wireless airwaves for public use.  They argue that transmitting wireless broadband on white spaces could interfere with TV signals. Original story here. I’m not an expert in this field, but the claim that airwaves will interfere with broadcasters doesn’t make a lot of sense.  […]

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October 26, 2008

Liberal democrats more active online

Research here. This is an interesting article, but covers the US only. Interesting why?  Well, I suppose it’s because it offers up some hope for the world in that if we (being liberal democrats or activists) are actually more active than conservatives, we’ll eventually turn things around. The only challenge is fragmentation.  In Canada, during the last election, the number of activist causes, groups, campaigns […]

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October 22, 2008

Why NAFTA Sucks: DOW to Sue Canada for anti-pesticide laws

Original story here from Canadian Newswire. This story is a little hard to figure out, but it seems like DOW, the company that gave us Bhopal and Napalm, is suing the government of Canada through a backdoor policy with NAFTA known as ‘Chapter 11’.  Apparently, with Chapter 11, companies that are ‘wrongfully’ affected by the legislation of any Canadian body can seek damages. I did […]