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CBC and CRTC regulations
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007What should we regulate? Rather than not allowing private conglomerates to buy out each others entertainment crap we should reserve access to alternative voices. Who is really dedicated to...
Affordable housing ideas
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Here is another concept that I have always been curious about. For years I lived on Queen Street West in Toronto. I lived above a store front on the second floor. One day the owner offered to sell to...
Homelessness and Affordable housing
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007First and foremost it is imperative that the right to safe shelter be included in the Canadian constitution. Access to the security of a permanent residence, a home, is a human right not a reward to...
Conservative Law & Order agenda
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007I am tired of Conservative law and order and social order campaigns being predicated on finding the poorest and most defenceless in society and promising to kick their guts out. This may appeal to...
Supervised injection and alcohol intake sites
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Supervised injection and alcohol intake sites When my brother was on the street as a psychiatric person, it was the network of people, shelters, soup kitchens, and social services that allowed him to...
Traps to avoid #4
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007"4. The Rationalism Trap. There is a commonplace—and false—theory that reason is completely conscious, literal (applies directly to the objective world), logical, universal, and unemotional....
Reaching out to immigrants and refugees #1
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007One of the questions I have begun to ask myself is how can we reach out to refugees and immigrants when it is our own foreign policies and economic policies that have created the conditions from...
Twelve traps to avoid #1
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Taken from the article by Dr. Lakoff’s entitled "Thinking Points". Found here as in my previous blog post. I plan to address them one at a time in order to make each blog entry short and specific....
"How can someone hold both progressive and conservative values at the same time?"
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007Something interesting all Greens should read. It is from an article from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, December 2006. Some of you may have read it already but for those who haven't it...
Got Cash? Know How to Spend It?
Blog | Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007The Department of Finance has just launched nationwide pre-budget consultations, allowing Canadians to participate in the development of Budget 2007. Unfortunately, these consultations will be on-...