Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading.

- Dr. Dawg follows up on Stephen Harper's apology to residential school survivors, and rightly questions how sincere it can be when it's been followed up with repeated efforts to avoid either actual compensation or (more importantly) efforts to bring First Nations standards of living anywhere close to those available to most Canadians.

- Boris notes that Vancouver's recent excuse to shut down peaceful Occupy protests represents the first test for the movement. And unfortunately, Regina's Occupiers are being tested as well.

- But as Colby Cosh rightly points out, it's excessive resistance that allows a movement to build a long-term place in our political conversation. And so with the right response, a crackdown might only help to highlight how unreasonable the anti-Occupy forces are for the general public.

- And speaking of the right response to gratuitous threats, PIPSC has officially voted to join the Canadian Labour Congress. Which Tim Harper rightly sees as part of a wider labour effort to muscle up against the Cons' attacks.

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