My classmate Emma assembled many recent examples of the U of T major field examination in Canadian politics. The exam will be based on these sources. I can either write the exam on May 23rd or August 22nd.
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One element of developing Toronto350.org has been learning how to do complex cooperative work using a devoted group of volunteers. This afternoon, we are having a ‘bibliography party’ for our University of Toronto divestment brief. We will be taking all the sources people have collected and putting them into biblatex format. It will then be [...]
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“It was argued that rights could be safeguarded in an absolute fashion, but section 1 of the Charter reads, “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” [...]
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If you want to get approval for a huge project with many risks and serious associated problems, one strategy is to get decision-makers to split up the question into tiny pieces. Forbid the people on one team from considering the issues another team is looking at. That way, you can prevent the consideration of interactions [...]
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Mark Jaccard in The Walrus: “The Harper government supports accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels from our soil, which will send more carbon pollution into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, that same government brazenly assures Canadians that it will keep its 2020 and 2050 emission reduction promises. But I know these assurances are worthless, for the very [...]
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“The political philosopher par excellence of the organic constitution was the Anglo-Irish theorist and statesman Edmund Burke, who wrote a century after Locke. Burke did not share the Age of Enlightenment’s optimism about the capacity for each rational individual to discern fundamental political truths. ‘The individual is foolish, but the species is wise.’ Instead of [...]
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Former Toronto mayor and Large Cities Climate Leadership Group advocate David Miller signing the Toronto350.org divestment petition: The photo was originally posted on Twitter.
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Canadian charities – especially environmental charities – now feel threatened that they will lose their special tax status if they engage in ‘political’ activity. The Canada Revenue Agency website describes the rules: Registered charities are prohibited from partisan political activity, because supporting or opposing a political party or candidate for public office is not a [...]
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Can the Liberals and the NDP please just merge already? Source: ThreeHundredEight.com The Liberal and New Democratic parties have now spent years operating under the apparent assumption that the key issue is leadership and that if they can just find the right leader they will be able to form a government. I think a much [...]
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The Globe and Mail recently printed an interesting article on how the development of unconventional oil in the United States could undermine the business model of the oil sands: “a belief in unfettered access to an insatiably oil-hungry U.S. market has been a central underlying assumption of the great energy expansion under way in Alberta.” [...]
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