Editor’s note: The following selections are from George Grant’s Technology and Empire, originally published in 1969. “A central aspect of the fate of being a Canadian is that our very existing has at all times been bound up with the interplay of various world empires. One can better understand what it is to be Canadian if […]
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Once upon a time there were great Canadians who loved this country and dreamed of its becoming a truly strong and independent nation. Those were people like the late philosopher George Grant and the gentle patriot Walter Gordon, whose efforts, intellectual and political, respectively, in defence of Canada have been briefly discussed in a previous
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The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society. They include natural resources such as the air, fishing grounds, groundwater basins, grazing lands, irrigation canals, streams, lakes, and oceans. They are, as Dr. Ursula Franklin has pointed out in her book The Real World of Technology, indivisible benefits. These resources are
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Every weekend, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May sends out a “Good Sunday Morning!” email to her constituents and supporters. I am not a Green voter, mostly because I disagree with the party on immigration, and social and cultural issues. I do, however, find this to be an admirable way to connect with the public, which
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