Handcuffing a Community’s Resilience: Bata in the 21st Century
I first knew Bata shoes as a kid taken shopping to try on new shoes. As a teen I learned about the nexus of globalization and apartheid with Bata as a model, since they were operating in South Africa. Thomas Bata said, “We expanded into Africa in order to sell shoes, not to spread sweetness [...]
Chinese Protectionism Offends Our Protectionism, Oh My!
We’re now entering a new era of profound hypocrisy from global neoliberal capitalists. Today’s Globe and Mail had a cover story about China hoarding raw materials for infrastructure development while getting all protectionist with export controls to keep those materials from getting to the industrialized world, where presumably we deserve to have them more than [...]
CanWest/Global: Mondaylessness in Victoria
CanWest/Global is lying about why it stopped publishing the Times-Colonist on Mondays. Read it below, though their last sentence may not be completely accurate. They “say” that it’s because of the evolving newspaper industry. The truth is that they’re fast going broke. They first announced a plan to “temporarily” stop publishing the National Post on [...]
Canadians Need a Real Education in Politics
Ipsos/CanWest just released a poll that shows that Canadians need far more education about how politics is supposed to work in a parliamentary system. Here’s what they found [see below for some of the ambiguous juicy quotes]: a large minority think Igg would do a better job of running the country a slim majority think [...]
Igg’s Empty Deal with Harper
In 2005, New Democrats turned corporate tax breaks of $4.6 billion into $1.6 billion for affordable housing, $1.5 billion for post-secondary education, $900 million for transit, $500 million for foreign aid and $100 million for pension protection. In 2009, Michael Ignatieff could only manage a “blue ribbon panel” on Employment Insurance with limited scope that [...]
Oil Status Quo Apologists Spin Weak Arguments
Maclean’s Colin Campbell has produced today an interesting counterpoint to my exuberance over Jeff Rubin’s convenient vindication of my peak oil killing neoliberal globalization thesis. And despite Rubin not knowing me, I fell it’s appropriate to defend him–and my–sense of the near future. My comments are indented. Energy shock and oil myths Will soaring prices crush [...]
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