The Harper Record
The book is available via pdf on CCPA website and will be avail. for purchase as hard-copy in October. The Harper Record, edited by Teresa Healy (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives). This book is one in a series of CCPA publications that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure. As with earlier CCPA reports on the activities of previous governments while in office, this book gives a detailed account of the laws, policies, regulations, and initiatives of the Conservative minority government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper during its 32-month term from January 2006 to September 2008.
The 47 writers, researchers and analysts who have co-written this book probe into every aspect of the Harper minority government’s administration. From the economy to the environment, from social programs to foreign policy, from health care to tax cuts, from the Afghanistan mission to the tar sands, from free trade to deep integration, and to many other areas of this government’s record, the authors have dug out the facts and analyzed them.
The Harper Record was necessarily researched and written long before an election was called, but its publication does coincide with an election campaign and thus may help citizens to make informed choices about the future of their country. Regardless of the election outcome, its contents will continue to be relevant between elections. In detailing what a minority Conservative government really did, or failed to do, it may serve as a guide and model for future elections.
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Or, how to procrastinate at the end of the semester, but is this not what you get paid to do? Read?
Helen Epstein, The Invisible Cure: Africa, The West and the Fight Against Aids (Farrar Strauss, Giroux, 2007).
Chris Hedges, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press, 2006). From Democracy Now, interview with Hedges.
Bliss Broyard, One Drop (Little Brown, 2007).
Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions (Dutton, 2007). Review in The Guardian.
Peter Carey, His Illegal Self (Random House, 2008)
Davd Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son (Thomas Allen, 2007). Review at CBC .
Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, 1968: MLK Jr
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Zachary Lazar — Sway: A Novel (Little Brown, 2008).
A narrative wherein early Rolling Stones ca. Brian Jones till he gets booted from the band and drowns in a swimming pool while Anita P. runs with Keith and Mick learns how to sing and strut meets up with a middle-aged Kenneth Anger of cult films Scorpio Rising and Kustom Kar Kommandos (among many) notoriety who in turn is wanting to cast a young pre-Charlie Manson Bobby Beausoleil in Lucifer. Dark, at times funny, and remarkable that many of the real-life characters are still alive after imbibing that many drugs.
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Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Wow, I knew Uncle Miltie was shady but I didn
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Associate Professor at Concordia University. BA, Communication/Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. MA, Library & Information Science, UCLA. PhD, Communication, McGill University.
My research and teaching for the last decade or so focuses on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information & communication technologies. Keywords: internet, access, gender, public interest, feminist(isms), policy, media reform, youth, Canadian communication studies, and political economy.
