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A view of Canadian elections

Sunday, January 24, 2010

 
The latest issue of The Walrus has a very good article in it on Canada’s Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. It is written by long-time political observer and writer Ron Graham. For anyone looking for an alternative to our current Prime Minister, I suggest you read this expose because it tells you exactly what you are [...]

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New voters see a different Canada, a different reality

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

 
Some further thoughts on Michael Valpy’s G&M opinion piece about the great devides now appearing in the Canadian soul….. For those young Canadians voting for the first or second time in this election, they have grown up in a very different Canada than the one Pierre Trudeau presided over – in fact, many may not [...]

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Canadians sense of common purpose and belonging together is disintegrating

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

 
Michael Valpy in August 28, 2009 Globe and Mail wrote a very thoughtful piece about Canadians’ sense of themselves and how our habits of digesting news and information is weakening the country’s sense of direction and purpose.  
 
According to social scientists who study the issue, Canada is developing a social-cohesion deficit. Too little holds us [...]

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Quotes regarding Elections

Saturday, September 5, 2009

  

Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? — Robert Orben 

Our elections are free - it’s in the results where eventually we pay. — Bill Stern

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