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Commentary on the internet and looking for love, why countries save or spend, Ron Paul’s libertarianism, the contraception debate, China worries, starting at Tesco, and Rick Mercer’s Rant on Vic.
Googling for love.
Economist -- The modern matchmakers
Internet dating sites claim to have brought science to the age-old question of how to pair off successfully. But have they?
Commanding Heights of the Global Economy -- The Battle of Ideas
Two hour video that lays out the ideas that have driven globalisation in the last part of the 20th century.
The Financial Times video interview on the utility of Marxism to explain the developments in the current economic and financial crises.
This is part of the Financial Times' series on capitalism in crisis.
The New Yorker asks the simple question, 'why do we lock up so many people?'
New Yorker -- Mass Incarceration
A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.
Quote worth sending to Ottawa.
The only thing driving Canada’s oil and gas strategy is to sell the most amount in the shortest period of time to the highest bidder.
In the second decade of the 21st century accelerating demand is coming from China.
This is the background to the huge shift in Prime Minister Harper’s approach to China from human rights advocate to oil and gas salesman.
Last night Lewis Rhodes and the Young Liberals of the University of Victoria hosted a standing room only seminar on the wisdom of Bill C-10.
I was asked to round out the panel of criminal justice experts Michael Mulligan and Christopher Beresford to give an economist's perspective.
These were my remarks.
Congratulation to Lewis and his executive.
More evidence that leading with the message will bring in members, money and votes.
Professor Errol Mendes from his post today on the Linked In discussion group Canadian Progress hosted by Nancy Leblanc.
He notes that Don Tapscott at the Liberal Party Convention used this murmuration video to argue that the way politics is done is changing and that those who adapt to it are going to be the best change agents.
Marvellous.
Over the weekend I was asked a few times what my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tokyo (1988) was about.
I graduated from the International Relations Department writing a thesis on the politics and economics of voluntary export restraints of Japanese automobiles to the US.
The key political result of the restraints was to give the Japanese state a heavy hand in dealing with the Japanese automotive makers particularly Toyota.
The wonderful and exuberant Julia of Montreal shared this link with us.
Thanks Julia.
Quote worth living your life by.
“You'll see a stranger ... a complete stranger being bullied and beaten and suddenly, in an agonizing moment, he'll become your brother ...” -- The Counterfeit Traitor
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be with you this evening.
I appreciate very much that you are giving me the unique chance to share with you my thoughts about the Liberal Party at this juncture in Canadian history, the role of National Policy Chair, and the challenges Canada faces.
Most of you will know that I spent much of my professional life in investment banking and that I ran for the NDP in the 2006 federal election in the riding of St. Paul’s in Toronto where Carolyn Bennett trounced Peter Kent and me.
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