How long will Canada remain under the boot of market fundamentalism? This is the laissez faire face of modern neoliberalism that has taken hold throughout the developed world, Canada included. It manifests itself most directly in free trade agreements and associated institutions such as the IMF, the World Trade Organization, and
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The Disaffected Lib: A Divided World that Pits Fact Against Fantasy
It’s the battle line between conservatives and everyone else. It’s incredibly divisive and it is powerfully corrosive of social cohesion. It’s a high-stakes war to control the national narrative between those who embrace fact and those who prefer fiction. Pew Research set out to find what’s behind what it considers the increasing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Busting the Cartel
“this country should no longer tolerate a situation where the public interest in so vital a field as information[is] dependent on the greed or goodwill of an extremely privileged group of businessmen” That was the seminal conclusion of the 1969 Davey Commission report into Canada’s mass media. It was a
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