Category: Politics

BASH bloggers against stephen harper Canada canadian election Politics Steve
December 3, 2008

Stephen Harper: Fiddling while the ship sinks

Stephen Harper is fiddling with parliamentary obscurities (example:  proroguing the House of Parliament) while our country falls to economic pieces.  Be it Rome or the Titanic, he seems oblivious to the disaster that is brewing around him. A generation from now, "Stephen Harper prorogued while Canada died" will be the expression of norm when communicating failure.  Feeling pressure from exams?  Let’s prorogue them.  Not wanting […]

Canada canadian election corruption Politics Steve
December 3, 2008

Prorogue = Martial Law?

If Stephen Harper prorogues Parliament – a practice that is only advisable at the END of a parliamentary session – will this be the equivalent of declaring a state of parliamentary Martial Law? We’ve elected these people to do their job and they’re playing games with our country.  Preventing them from doing so is an act of fascism and treason against the people of Canada. […]

Canada canadian election Politics proportional representation
December 2, 2008

A Solution for Canadian Parliament: Acknowledge The Long Tail

For those of you who don’t understand the Long Tail , check out what the concept’s creator, Steve Anderson, has to say about it . Generally, the idea is this:  we live in a world of fragmentation and being ‘number one’ is no longer as important as representing all opportunities in the economic (or social or political) spectrum. There’s really nothing new to the idea:  […]

Canada economics environment Politics
December 1, 2008

Financial Crisis and Ecological Amnesia

I’ve been using this blog to try to point out some of the flaws in getting the same old crew to repair the messes that they created in the first place.  Of course, to take a page from the Adbusters gang as they revved up Buy Nothing Day for last week, we also start to understand that the core of the problem is us.  Until […]

BASH bloggers against stephen harper Canada canadian election economics Politics Steve
December 1, 2008

What Was the Point of the Economic Statement

It seems the Conservative government has blinked and has eliminated several of the more contentious components of the economic statement from last Thursday.  John Baird said over the weekend that they won’t try to eliminate the right for public sector members to strike, nor would they eliminate public funding for campaign finance.  Of course, it wasn’t Harper or Flaherty making these statements.  It was Baird.  […]