The Walrus - The Dark Country (on Canadian transparency)

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault on
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The Dark Country

The Afghan torture scandal. The Arar affair. Adscam. The Bush years. Given so many cautionary tales, why are Canadians still letting the government hide public information?

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.01-national-affairs-the-dark-country/

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Yesterday; at Mike's corner store in Ottawa's Chinatown with my son to pick up some milk and gingerale, I saw the Walrus on the Magazine rack!  Wot! Really! at Mike's?

Ever since my 15 yrs old son saw Brother Mouzone in the Wire order that the Atlantic Monthy, New Yorker and Harpers be included with his library reading books, as he site in the bad ass streets of Baltimore, and after declaring that the most dangerous thing in America was an educated black man followed by a sinister wooohahahaha laugh and grin;  my son has requested those magazines.  Canadian Geographic just does not cut it! I do, from time to time pick those up with the odd Caramilk, but also feel obliged to throw in the Canadian equivalent - The Walrus from time to time.

So I purchased my CanCon mag at Mike's.  Then at home, while eating his favorite perogis with all the fixin's and drinking his Canada Dry, he said, with his mouth full, "hey mom, they are taking about access to data in the Walrus!  You might like that!"

Sure enough, there it was!

The article is very insightful and helps understand why prorogation and silence are deadly to democracy!

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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