This and that for your Tuesday reading.
- Dan Leger comments on the combination of secrecy and control exerted by Stephen Harper over the entire federal government. And the "Harper Government" re-branding exercise - now confirmed by reams of direct evidence yet still somehow denied by the Cons - serves as the emblematic case in point.
- But let's not go too far in suggesting that "the state is everywhere" under the Cons. Instead, the biggest problem is that Harper is determinedly pairing an omnipresent PR apparatus with a state that does as little as possible in terms of actual public service.
- Jim Stanford highlights what banks have done to siphon off Canadian wealth while minimizing any actual contribution to its development.
- And finally, Hans Rollman wonders whether we're seeing the end of the right to strike which enabled the labour movement to push much of the societal progress made in the 20th century.
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