Arif Jinha's blog

Harper's False Reassurance

Emma's great comment about the 'steady hand' got me thinking.

If you can't stand it anymore, feel right - vote Green!

The Green Party has put together the most progresive vision in a party platform Canada has seen. The party is the only one on the rise, the most popular among youth, the most positive.

Death, Taxes, and RRSPs

My father came to this country in 1976, as an engineer who had trained under British standards at Nairobi and worked in England.

The Asian Crisis Revisited: written April 2007: Lessons Not Learned

With a few edits for style, i wrote this last spring as a study of the Asian economic meltdown as part of a global economics grad course. Lessons don't seem to be learned.

Conservatives Earn Broadest Base of Unpopularity in Recent Poll

The news story about a recent Harris-Decima poll led with the NDP and Greens tied at 25% for respondents to the question of who one would vote for if they changed their mind about their first choice.

Ordinary Canadians? Who?

Politicians please stop. Stop it. Stop right now using the phrase 'Ordinary Canadians' to stuff words in our mouths, promote conformity and exclude. Stop it. Nah...ah.. no..da..stop. now. Ok.

Inspired - Today's Press Conference

Elizabeth May and this party has this ability to lift me out of cynicism, back to inspiration and hope. The press conference today was amazing.

The GST - My Two Cents

When Stephen Harper lowered the GST it was a populist move. It does not in the slightest make life easier, even if we believe that consuming more and more is what life is all about.

The Story of Sacha Bond – Canada’s Forgotten Exile

Sacha Bond, a 23 yr old Canadian Citizen has served three years of a twenty year sentence without parole in Florida, U.S.A. He has no prior criminal record and was 19 at the time of his arrest.

Freedom and the Economy

One thing I like about this party is that it respect creativity, it is philosophy, not the dull kind, the good and interesting kind.

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