Frances Russell

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Frances Russell

On October 19 stand up for Canada

Canada's Passionate Canadian Pulls No Punches In His Penultimate Fight for Canada

The Harper Government's Manual on How to Subvert Your Vote in October - a.k.a. the Fair Elections Act

The New Feudalism

The pate de foie gras government

Sound rules to starve by

Contempt of Parliament is now the Default State of Canadian Democracy

The low, dishonest decade redux

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

How many corporate think tanks are necessary to change the political culture of a nation?

Canada's Crime Rate is Plunging but the Harper Government's Incarceration Rate is Skyrocketing: What's Wrong With This Picture?

From parliamentary attack dog to international statesman, John Baird covered all the bases for his boss, Stephen Harper

NAFTA's Pioneering Investor-State Rules Force Democratically-Elected Governments to Pay to Govern

How Would Tommy Douglas Feel Now?

Where you stand depends on where you sit in Harper's new - and meaner - Canada

CBC's Perilous Future as Half Public and Half State Broadcaster

Income Splitting – Just Another Neo-Con Romp For The Rich To Skin the Poor

Absolute Power in the Hands of Just One Man

Canadians Need to Take Their Country Back Before It's Gone

Canada's Non-Responsible Parliament

The Laffer Curve Laughs All The Way To The Bank For Corporate Canada

Stephen Harper's Conservatives Champion Democracy for Ukraine – for Canada, Not So Much

A Political Parcel of Rogues

A Centre-Left Country Governed From The Right

Corporate “Citizens” Damage Democracy

Canada's Elected Dictatorship

Big oil and its government may meet its match in Beautiful British Columbia

Canada An Energy Superpower? Not!

From First Place to Bottom of the Class in One Bound

The prime minister and the professor

The Fight between PM Harper and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin was inevitable

Omnibus Budget Bills and Fair Election Acts – Oh Canada!

Inequality is bad for citizens, nations and the economy

The Fair Elections Act Is Unconstitutional, Legal Experts Say

Manitoba Hydro and the Perils of Power

Medicare Is On the Road to Oblivion

Justin Trudeau Banks on Laurier's Sunny Ways and U.S. Democratic Strategies for 2015

Conservatives Stack The Deck For The 2015 Federal Election

Pay As You Go and If You Can't Pay You Don't Go.

A Fancy Way For The Rich To Skin The Poor

The Orwellian World of 21st Century “Democratic” Politics

Selling Alberta's Tar Sands Gets Ever Tougher

Book burning 21st Century Style

Our Mean McEconomy

Righting Our Upside-Down Parliament

Yellow Dogs and Dirty Smears

Empowering the Senate to Disempower Ottawa

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and “Bozo Eruptions” In Canada's Politics

Just Saying It's So Doesn't Make It So

Now's The Time For All Good Citizens To Come to the Aid Of Their Democracy

Just Whose Freedom Are We Talking About Here?

The Irresistible Force Meets The Immovable Object

A Flawed Understanding of Parliamentary Democracy

Our "Barking Mad" Democracy

Reform the Senate? Reduce Its Powers First

Fifty Shades of Canada

Canada's Potemkin Parliament

All Wind and Rabbit Tracks

The Neo-Cons Are Conning Us

We Need to Learn From the Greeks. And Quickly

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