From the monthly archives: March 2009

Shameful Acts: 2. Attack on the arts

By On March 27, 2009 · 1 Comment

“Ordinary people” don’t care about the arts, and artists are elitist snobs who whine at extravagant taxpayer-funded galas about government subsidies not rising quickly enough. And with that denigrating assessment, Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his government’s forty-five million dollar pre-election gutting of arts funding in Canada.

I think when ordinary working people come home, [...]

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Shameful Acts: 1. In and Out

By On March 23, 2009 · 1 Comment

In its rush toward populism and away from discourse, the federal Conservative government in Canada has revealed its vision. Some of that vision was contained in its election platforms of 2006 and 2008, but much of it has been spooled out over the course of the life of the minority government led by Stephen Harper [...]

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Flow of lives

By On March 22, 2009 · 2 Comments

Andrea Fitzpatrick lost her job last August and foundered for a while, as she struggled with her sense of self-worth. She had identified herself with her career, whatever it had happened to be. Corporate advance, money, and social status were the things that defined her. Unsurprisingly, they were not the things that made her [...]

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Wargames

By On March 4, 2009 · 1 Comment

At what point does a country officially turn from a tradition of peacekeeping to an ethos permitting permanent, unscheduled military engagement? Does it happen when the armed forces reach a certain critical mass? When military funding becomes unprecedented? Or when engagement happens in multiple theatres, and future combative missions are simply assumed despite the political [...]

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