James O'Grady
I am the founder of Unpublished Media Inc., a company I started in 2012. I am also a communications professional and community activist, living in Nepean, Ontario. And, I am a hockey goaltender, political hack and most importantly, an advocate for grassroots, participatory democracy at all levels of government.
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The first Cycle In report from the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict (OCED) is a citizen’s...
Dear Canadians, In this election much has been made of the need for anti-Harper voters to vote...
I was happy to read this morning on Macleans.ca that NDP leader Tom Mulcair took a strong stand...
The open letter below is on behalf of Canadian artists who are concerned about how Bill C-51...
This is a brief chronology of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to...
Last week the Canadian political website iPolitics.ca published an article about the release of a...
Comments by James O'Grady
Yes, I think the Ontario Greens will get squeezed this election. The Liberals and the NDP, with new leaders, are bound to do better. Plus, people like me who have left the party because they are now violating their values/principles with ill thought out policy, in particular their affordable housing policy that threatens urban forests and family neighborhoods acorss the province, is a complete violation of the party's value of Ecological Wisdom. Suffice to say: Its not ecologically wise to cut down the urban forest to build affordable housing. Nor is it wise to destroy family neighborhoods. This is especially true when we have contaminated properties throughout all of our cities which can be cleaned and redeveloped. Build new communities for these people on cleaned earth. Don't cut down any trees, and don't upend our neighbourhoods to be meet an artificial crisis created by poor federal immigration policy.
I’m not as worried about the tariffs as some. We just need to find new biz partners, which can’t be too difficult given the resources we have to sell. Everybody wants them. So, let’s not get our knickers in a knot over it. Let Trump place a 25% tariff on Canadian products and let’s see how the average American consumer likes paying for his tax cuts for the rich. It won’t take long for them to start baulking. In the mean time let’s go find new trading partners who actually want our products…
Cool. I hadn’t heard that story. Thanks for sharing.
Altogether we have less population than the state of California, so I doubt they would take us as individual states, but anyway, why would we want to? Look at the mess they have down there?
I fight corruption here in Canada because it’s getting worse, but Americans are surrounded by it. It’s everywhere. It’s really sad. We don’t want to be a part of it I guarantee you…