A black eye for democracy
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
June 30, 2010
In Toronto the Good, we saw a law passed and enforced that was more anti-democratic than the War Measures Act. And we saw twice as many people arrested over a single 24-hour period in Toronto — more than 900 at last count — than what took place during the October Crisis in Quebec 40 years ago. And that event is in our history books as the most notorious abuse of civil rights in modern Canadian history.
Tags: participation, rights
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The wrath of the right
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
June 9, 2010
just as Harper patterned his strategy after the electoral successes of George W. Bush, so too might we glance south of the border for a glimpse of where such policies might lead. Looking at America today — a country deeply polarized by social issues, its politics poisoned by vitriol — most Canadians would not rush to duplicate the results
Tags: ideology, participation
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