(also posted at PoliticsRespun.org) I have an old stand-by joke for partisan political events that I happen upon or at which I end up. How can you tell an NDP event? The cries of “Shame! Shame!” There are a few tropes we can pile together about political rallies. Conservative ones seem to have hired goons [...]
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There are times I can’t believe I study politics.
– Also posted at PoliticsRespun.org – I’m a graduate student in political science at York University. And there are times – increasingly more times – that I can’t believe that I study politics. And I’d like to suggest that this is precisely what Stephen Harper wants. Personally, I think that it’s kind of telling that [...]
Protecting the people elected to do the peoples’ work from the people who want them to do their work
Three days, a fake lake, and $1 billion dollars in security costs later, the G8/G20 meetings will have wrapped up by the afternoon of June 27. Over one hundred protestors will have been arrested, and as of the time of writing, at least three police cars have been burned. Hundreds of police officers will have [...]