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Bill Tieleman's criticism of my previous column makes me wonder if I don't try too hard to read the broader public interest in my academic tea leaves, perhaps because I wish to avoid the uncomfortable truth that much of what Campbell's Liberals d...

topics: liberals, politics, tax, taxes

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Well, I am not running for office, I am not an apologist for any political party, so I can say what I think. The federal government's insistence on cutting sales taxes is not a great idea.In the short run, insisting on GST cuts merely makes a recor...

topics: federal-government, investment, liberal, ndp, political

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Jack Layton has been a reasonably good leader for the NDP, if only because he has brought the kind of energy and forceful presence to the national stage that Ed Broadbent said that he would. But if he wants the NDP to challenge the Bloc Quebecois for...

topics: liberals, ndp

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Before you get mad at the Liberals and the NDP and the Bloc for pulling the plug and triggering another fall election, remember this: it was the October 2008 election that was unnecessary, and it was orchestrated by the Conservatives, not the Liberal...

topics: election, liberals, ndp, politics, tax

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2008 Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Krugman sums up the U.S. debate over health care very nicely in his current New York Time column, Health Care Realities : Right-wing opponents of reform would have you believe that President Obama is a wild-eyed...

topics: health-care, tax

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NO, not him! And not her, either. There are only 6 people who can build and improve upon Carole James's leadership and also be acceptable as leader and premier.1. Joy McPhail2. Andrew Petter3. Leonard Krog4. Gregor Robertson5. Mike Farnworth6. Bob Si...

topics: mayor, politics, premier

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Brian Day and Shona Holmes have appeared in U.S. TV ads funded by opponents of President Obama's health care reform plan in order to criticize the Canadian system. Most Americans never get to see or hear the opinions of the vast majority of Canadians...

topics: health-care, supreme-court

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As I point out in Chapter 10 of the upcoming book BC Government and Politics , Gordon Campbell deserves credit for preventing a unified coalition of labour, environmentalists, First Nations and NGOs from coalescing. His strategic initiatives vis a vi...

topics: bc-government, liberals, ndp, politician, politics

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Check out the following website, which investigates corporate activity ( or the lack of it) in Africa. What it has to say about Boardroom Attitudes toward Africa should raise a few eyebrows:http://www.usafricainvestment.com/...

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Two ironies jump out at me from the long electoral reform process that we have just been through. First, it was ironic that even though the underlying premise of the whole exercise was that government was in a conflict of interst in deciding issues o...

topics: elected, election, liberal, premier