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Herschel Hardin

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A Nation Unaware: The Canadian Economic Culture. Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1974). There were few lukewarm opinions when A Nation Unaware hit reviewers desks and bookstores in 1974. It was a brilliantly independent book that dissected 200 years of Canadian economic history. A Nation Unaware soon became a Canadian classic. Closed Circuits: The Sellout of Canadian Television. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1985). Halifax: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1989). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991).

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Herschel Hardin

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Captain Courageous, one journalist called him. He was recounting Herschel s daring, as a public-interest advocate, in facing up to powerful television and cable interests. It was just one of the many chapters in Herschel s life. Herschel grew up in a prairie town, Vegreville, Alberta, just east of Edmonton, and went to university in Ontario (Queen s University in Kingston). He began his career as a playwright. One of his plays, Esker Mike and his Wife, Agiluk is a Canadian classic. But it is his non-fict...

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Why politicians' pay zooms:. We let corporate executives set the bar crazily high. The Tyee.ca, July 26, 2007. When it was announced that British Columbia's MLAs would net a pay raise of 29 per cent - and the premier a whopping 53 per cent bump - there was outrage. Now we learn the MLAs are going to get a raise on top of their raise - another 10 per cent for most of them - plus that hefty pension. Here's how the two are connected. Cabinet ministers pull down $223,000, putting their incomes, counting thei...

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Herschel Hardin

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Politics of the Future. My Brilliant Political Career. The Herschel Hardin NDP leadership campaign was a quixotic adventure from the start, but there was more to it than first met the eye. The genesis of the decision to enter the contest went back to my growing up Canadian in the 1940s and 1950s, my economic nationalism, and my experience as a writer and public-interest advocate. Then there was the campaign itself! Website by Sysco Technology.

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Herschel Hardin

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Esker Mike and his Wife, Agiluk. The New World Order. The Great Wave of Civilization. Website by Sysco Technology.

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Herschel Hardin

http://www.herschelhardin.ca/commentaries/economics/09jul-meltdown

Financial 2008 meltdown foreseen in a prophetic 1991 book. The CCPA Monitor, July/August 2009. The New Bureaucracy: Waste and Folly in the Private Sector, speaks to the present almost two decades after publication. Nobody has any idea of how much of it there actually is, he went on to lecture me. And nobody knows what anything is worth any longer. How can a bank lend money in a situation like that? The book was The New Bureaucracy: Waste and Folly in the Private Sector, which came out in 1991. There were...

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Herschel Hardin

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The will to challenge power is missing. I read your article on rabble.ca, and I have to say that you are dead-on about the risk-averseness of the NDP lately. I have always considered myself in the right-side of the party - but even I am becoming uncomfortable by the safe road we've been taking. You mentioned Layton retreating from inheritance tax - great example of how we lost a potential wedge issue that could have attracted young people's attention! Thank you for your thoughtful commentary.

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Herschel Hardin

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A blog on corporate power with The New Bureaucracy: Waste and Folly in the Private Sector as its starting point. Flaming darts, shotgun blasts and adder stings.a "rock 'em, sock 'em" affair. That was how the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reviewer described The New Bureaucracy when it hit reviewers desks and bookstores in 1991. Other reviewers also realized that a new kind of discussion had been launched, with revolutionary implications. This is what www.thenewbureaucracy.com will be discussing. For the book its...

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Herschel Hardin

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A large collection of articles touching on almost every aspect of media politics and power - from the rationale for public broadcasting to regulatory failure to concentration of ownership and flagrant media bias. Mostly dealing with public enterprise, these economic commentaries give the lie to the dogmatic right-wing conventional wisdom denigrating crown ownership. Also covered: the attack on the public sector, the inflated image of stock markets, and much more. Website by Sysco Technology.

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http://www.herschelhardin.ca/commentaries/politics/07jun5environmental.htm

S traight Goods, June 5, 2007. Somebody needs to say out loud that environmentalism isn t ideologically neutral. The next time I read that some important political matter is beyond left-right political strife, I ll gag on the pretension. Claiming to be above left-right ideological argument is, in almost all cases, just an artful evasion. This mantra of beyond left and right on the environment might sound good, but what if it s badly misconceived is in fact a blinkered and convenient dogma? Somebody needs...