Karen Armstrong talks about her latest book "The Great Transformation".
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May 22, 2006
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This Toronto theatre production focuses on the election that happened four years ago — but it offers lessons for the politics of today.
After a series of Conservative missteps — and some disastrous television attack ads — the federal Liberals took all but one of the province’s seats.
Hold on to your hat — it’s election day
- Examining the politics of minority governments.
- OPINION: The structures and systems we built decades ago don’t reflect reality anymore. Preparing for the floods to come won’t be easy — or cheap.
- Windsor experienced two 100-year storms just one year apart — what can the federal government do to make sure it’s ready for more?
- NDP support rises, and Jody Wilson-Raybould in a neck-and-neck race.
The confederacy of six First Nations has worked for hundreds of years to create and sustain the common good — through a process in which “everyone has a voice.”
- Thó:a 900 niiohserá:ke ó:nen ne ioti’tá:raien ka’nisténhsera shihonwatiia’tará:kwas ne Rotiianehr ohén:ton ia’tahá:ta’ne ne Iáia’k Nihononhontsá:ke Raotitióhkwa.
