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The Tyee has published my articlepMaking Democracy a Commons Insult, about my first visit to Parliament during Question Period. Excerpt:The conventional view is that Question Period shocks innocent schoolchildren who observe their government in boori...

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The Tyee has published my reviewpJeff Rubin's Shrinking World, about his book Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization. In my opinion it's one of the most important Canadian books on politics and economics ...

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The Tyee has published my article Germs Winning in BC's Hospitals. While it deals with local issues in the midst of a provincial election, the basic problem, I suspect, is very widespread across Canada and the US....

topics: election, political

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I've just posted an item on The Hook, the politics blog of The Tyee:pWatching Gaza from space. Follow the link to satellite images showing just where the damage has been most severe....

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Via The Independent in the UK: Just ten trained terrorists caused carnage. Excerpt:Mumbai's 60 hours of terror were the work of a small team of professionally trained commando killers , who spent weeks planning their atrocities, according to initial...

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I've just published an item on The Hook, asking Who's in your coalition fantasy cabinet? After all, if New Democrats and Liberals actually form a new government, we need to think about who goes in the cabinet....

topics: liberals, new-democrats

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The Tyee has published my article: Why BC's Credit Unions Aren't Melting Down....

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I've been editing The Hook this week, covering the US election in particular. We're reporting reaction around the world outside North America, and getting some amazing stories. Come and visit....

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Here's a great site for politics junkies: Voices without Votes Americans vote. The world speaks.It's an aggregator of blogs around the world, following the US election....

topics: election, politics

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This could be the best new US political blog: Margaret and Helen is by two gals in their 80s (Helen seems to do most of the posting). At their age, they've seen it all and they're not impressed. They're also funny as hell.They remind me of Alice Roos...