Keep in mind I haven’t thought this through too clearly. I’m just winging it here. With ten provinces, Canada has at least three too many. East of Quebec – yes, rest of Canada, there is an east of Quebec – there are four provinces who, collectively, administer less than 6% of the [...]
Archive for June, 2007
17 Jun
When is a Republican not a Republican?
I use to think John McCain was the Republican with integrity. Then he started showing his true colours, which were an unflattering blend of red, white, blue, and hypocritical warmongering power-mad douchebag. With Rudolph Giuliani’s chief qualification for the role of president being that he looked good on TV after a terrible [...]
16 Jun
Anti-Atlantica
The last few days saw an Atlantica conference here in my home city of Halifax. For those of you disinclined to follow links, Atlantica is a theoretical “International Northeast Economic Region”, proposed to more closely link the economies of the northeastern States with those of the eastern provinces of Canada. [...]
12 Jun
The Atlantic (Dis)Accord
A thing to keep in mind about the Canadian union is that it generates a kind of class based system in Canada, or at least a perceived one, that is based on nothing more than geography. We are a country with ten provinces, individually identified at an institutional (if unofficial) level as “have” or “have-not” [...]
