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Harper remains silent on rights agency fiasco
TheStar.com – Opinion – Harper remains silent on rights agency fiasco Published On Thu Jan 28 201. By Haroon Siddiqui Editorial Page Only a handful of non-Canadians, such as Nelson Mandela, have been bestowed the Order of Canada. Last year, Dr. Sima Samar of Afghanistan was so honoured, for defending human rights, especially women’s […]
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Time to address democratic deficit
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial Published On Wed Jan 27 2010 Canadians like to think of themselves as nothing if not democratic. Since the days of Baldwin and LaFontaine, we have enjoyed the fruits of responsible government – responsible, that is, to Parliament. But a report today from the Institute of Wellbeing – a non-partisan research group […]
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Abrupt-priority-shift-dooms-reform-plan
THESTAR.Com – Opinion – Abrupt priority shift dooms reform plan Published On Fri Jan 22 2010. By Carol Goar Editorial Board The report is earnest, well-researched – and utterly irrelevant as far as the federal government is concerned. The Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University has just released a 214-page plan to […]
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Save the PBO [Parliamentary Budget Office]
NationalPost.com – Full Comment – Save the PBO
Posted: November 20, 2009. Stephen Gordon, economics
Thursday’s National Post has an op-ed written by a couple of Fraser Institute types entitled “Scrap the Parliamentary Budget Office”. It’s a remarkable piece of rhetoric. Although its stated purpose is to make the case for eliminating the PBO, it ends up demonstrating once again why an effective PBO is so desperately needed.
Let’s start with this bit:
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Good news on diversity
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Good news on diversity
Published On Tue Nov 17 2009
Greater Toronto is one of the most immigrant-rich regions on Earth but you would be hard pressed to know it wandering the halls of finance, government and culture.
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Capitalism is dead. Long live good-ism [income and poverty measures over the past 10 years.]
NationalPost.com – News – Capitalism is dead. Long live good-ism
Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009. William Watson, National Post
TV Ontario has asked me to go on a panel to discuss whether capitalism needs to be rebranded. I assume they don’t actually want us to talk about branding. Anyone sensible loathes the whole idea of branding. Branding is just PR. Not what your product actually does, but how you get people to get a warm feeling inside about what you can persuade them to believe it does.
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Move quickly on election reforms [municipal level] Published On Thu Oct 29 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Move quickly on election reforms
Published On Thu Oct 29 2009
Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government this week tabled important legislation regarding municipal election reform.
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The right move on early learning
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorials – The right move on early learning
Published On Wed Oct 28 2009
Starting next September, Ontario’s first wave of kindergarten kids will benefit from a full day of learning because Premier Dalton McGuinty stuck to his promise – despite the economic downturn.
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