Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, makes an excellent case for the death of death of laissez-faire capitalism on the website RealClearPolitics.com. It contains several bon mots including:
“The problem wasn’t just the bathwater; the baby itself is rotten to the core.”
“Wall Street got drunk,” he says. Maybe so, but who made the last [...]
The media has been full of looping images of shoes flying at President Bush’s head and gloomy economic forecasts. Maybe the solution to our economic woes lies somewhere between the two:
“Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the [...]
The Canadian Blog Awards have announced the winners in the final round of voting for Best Cultural/Entertainment Blog. Department of Culture came 2nd!
Thanks to:
A: The folks who organized the awards.
B: The people who voted for us.
C: The many different artists from across the country that have made or submitted work to be included on the [...]
Above reflects the proposed Canadian government made up of coalition partners Liberal and New Democrat parties, with the Bloc Quebecois party, which has agreed to support the coalition in Parliament.
Whereas the above reflects the current composition of the Canadian Parliament resulting from the 44th general election held in October, 2008.
Legend
Proposed Coalition (including Liberal, NDP and [...]
The Globe and Mail is reporting that of the two rallies held in Toronto, The Pro-Coalition Rally was 6 times larger than the Conservative one.
3000+ braved sub-zero temperatures at Nathan Philips Square, while just 500 managed to show up at Queen’s Park to listen to a 17-year-old accuse 62% of voters of engaging in a [...]
The EBC PARTY
Everyone But Conservatives
7:30pm Monday, December 8, 2008
Upstairs at the Rivoli
Department of Culture and NOW Magazine invite you to celebrate the success of grassroots organizing. Thursday’s suspension of parliament demands that we stay active and vigilant over the next 6 weeks to ensure that the majority of Canadians are represented in government.
On Monday, come toast the government [...]
Pure Brute Strength.
This is what will determine who has the right to govern the nation.
Why look to parliamentary law or the percentage of votes that represents how many people gave the government a mandate?
On Saturday December 6th, at High Noon, the fate of a nation will be decided….
“All parties are now in heavy training, preparing [...]
“What I think we are seeing is a clear example of the shock doctrine in the way the Harper government has used the economic crisis to push through a much more radical agenda than they won a mandate to do.
At the same time we are seeing an example of what I call in the book [...]
Department of Culture invites you to celebrate the success of grassroots organizing. Come toast the government that 63% of Canadians actually voted for. This coalition government proves that Canadian democracy works and that the voice of the majority really matters in Canada.
Monday, December 8, 2008
7:30 pm
Rivoli Bar
332 Queen Street West
Toronto
www.rivoli.ca
