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Category Archives: politics
Progress without politics
November 2, 2009 – 2:09 am
Are we supposed to think this is a good thing, Bloomberg?
Schwarzenegger uses Facebook
March 5, 2009 – 9:01 am
Arnold’s fan base on Facebook unleashes a torrent of <sarcasm>insightful and witty commentary</sarcasm>
The future of journalism
January 21, 2009 – 3:11 pm
From one of my favourite e-newsletters, J-Source, comes a provocative article by Alan Bass, assistant prof at Thompson Rivers University School of Journalism, that takes journalists themselves to task for failing to preserve the vitality of journalism and for failing to make the case for the relevance of journalism vis-a-vis the infotainment that constitutes the [...]
The financial crisis cloud has no silver lining
January 14, 2009 – 9:14 pm
The New York Times has a decent (though it strangely focuses a bit too muich on her appearance and clothing) article on Naomi Klein. One of the things that caught my attention was her interpretation of the genesis of the New Deal:
The New Deal is usually told as a history of F.D.R., she said, but [...]
Greenspan’s mea culpa
December 20, 2008 – 11:56 am
Alan Greenspan reflects on how his ideological belief in the ability of markets to self-regulate has been shaken. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Oversight [pun?] and Government Reform Committee is on a bit of a self-righteous crusade and is obviously looking for a sound bite from Greenspan (which he gets). But it’s an effective approach, [...]
Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
December 8, 2008 – 8:19 pm
The Ontario government has launched a comprehensive anti-poverty plan that is receing warm reception from advocates like the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The fact that this has taken place during particularly bad times for Ontario’s economy is all the more impressive, and makes me proud to be an Ontarian–not something that happens every day. [...]