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Occupy Toronto: A Walk In The Park
There’s one thing you can say about Occupy Toronto or Occupy A Park Nowhere Near Bay Street or whatever you want to call it — so far it’s been a heck of a lot more fun than Nuit Blanche was. There...
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No Free Lunch? No Free Market?
Monopoly/Fun Guy versus Vendetta/Anonymous Guy — Separated at birth or just separate universes? Life isn’t fair, trade isn’t fair, justice isn’t fair and the market system certainly isn’t fair. That...
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REWIND: History Keeps Repeating Itself in Europe
I wrote this piece in November 2011. It is a dark, pessimistic look at how the European Union and the Euro Zone were both built on fatally flawed designs that allowed massive widespread abuse and lying...
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I’ve just been reading the latest bulletin from Simon Baptist, chief economist of the vastly informed and informative British magazine The Economist. What he says seems to very much support —...
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Here are 76 Honest-To-Goodness, I’m-85%-Sure-This-Will-Happen Predictions For...
There’s been a Pollyanna-ish inclination in some circles to say that 2017 couldn’t possibly be worse than 2016 (ergo, 2017 will be better than 2016). Brace yourself, Polly: Not only could 2017 be...
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The Truth About Electoral Reform
Some time this week, the House of Commons will be asked to vote on an NDP motion demanding an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for breaking his campaign pledge to reform Canada’s electoral...
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