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Hill Dispatches: The 2012 policy agenda, part one
As we begin a New Year it is as good a time as any to contemplate the spectres for our time -- the spectres of growing inequality and of unsustainable development.
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Parliament resumes with a tribute and a glimpse of future debate
Parliament resumes -- without Jack Layton.
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Can the NDP reinvent itself -- and save the country?
Canadians who maintain the dream of a more equal, democratic and civilized society may no longer be reeling from the death of Jack Layton. But they are surely stuck in a kind of political limbo, trying not to think of the damage Stephen Harper can do whenever he wants, at the same time as they try to imagine how this catastrophic situation can be turned around.
Layton's state funeral could backfire on Harper
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to give the late NDP leader Jack Layton a state funeral can be parsed two ways: a noble gesture or a Machiavellian political manoeuvre to further marginalize his original foe, the leaderless, languishing Liberals.
But no one, least of all Harper himself, could have predicted Canadians' week-long outpouring of emotion. Was it a fleeting historical moment? Or something more profound? If the former, political normalcy will return with the opening of Parliament Sept. 21. If the latter, the state funeral could turn out to be Harper's biggest political mistake yet.
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