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In May of this year, I started writing a political commentary column in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s student newspaper. In June, I came on board The Opposition, a new start-up website dedicated to fostering intellectual debate about Canadian and international politics. With Imprint taking …
Read more →This post first appeared as a 2-part article in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s official newspaper. On Sep. 17, I was poking around the Internet when I came across news of a protest organized by Anonymous, the hacktivist collective known for circumventing state censorship …
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Peter Davis is running as an independent candidate in the October 6 election. He’s no stranger to politics – his mother ran for Ward 6 councillor in the last municipal election. Don’t let his soft-spoken demeanour fool you, though – he’s got big plans …
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Photo by John Vetterli It’s the most wonderful time of the year – election season! Yes folks, once again, your candidates (the provincial ones this time) are knocking on doors and burning up photocopiers all over town just to get your attention. Doesn’t it …
Read more →A Liberal-NDP merger is the story that just won’t die, so I might as well weigh in with my thoughts. My thoughts are that it’s a terrible idea, in case you were wondering. Arguments in favour of a merger can be boiled down to this: …
Read more →It’s a good day to be an environmentalist in Ontario. As you may know, a giant quarry one-third the size of Toronto is proposed to be dug in the heart of our best agricultural land. I’ve written about this before. It would have devastating …
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Photo by Mike Barber. The term “silent majority” is often used as a cop-out by politicians that don’t want to address the concerns of those opposed to them. It’s an illegitimate tool used to artificially inflate the importance of one’s ideology. Inflated, in fact, …
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