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I live in Winnipeg, Canada. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg (BA.Hons) and the University of Manitoba (MA), I am a student of culture and communications. To be more precise, I specialize in Political Economy. My influences are varied - ranging from Marx and Gueverra on the one hand to Bookchin and Chomsky on the other. You might say I am a "radical" and take an alternative view to the "conventional wisdom" as propogated by the corporate community and the mainstream media.
I am also a dissident in my society. A Canadian nationalist in a society that devalues the very concept in favour of allegience to the American empire and its imperialist ambitions, I express minority views in a country that takes pride in its lack of national sovereignty. In Canada, socialism and nationalism have traditionally been linked together in opposition to the American Leviathan and the projection of its power through the medium of capitalist economics. Unfortunately, with the adoption of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the NAFTA, Canada has surrendered any pretension to independent development and in the process has adopted the nostrums of the "new right" which now rule American society.
Working as the national policy director for the National Party of Canada in the 1993 federal election, I watched with dismay as the electorate of Canada replaced one neo-conservative, free trade party with another. Canada is endangered by the project of the "new right" - short-hand for an attack on citizen-based democracy in favour of the corporate agenda. Declining wages, attacks on the poor, and deficit hysteria hide the real agenda of Canadian elites under the North American free trade regime. That agenda is defined by a counter-attack on the public interest and the voices of ordinary people.
Free speech is also endangered by the increasing concentration of the media in the hands of corporate monopolies. In Canada, the situation is acute. A bare handful of corporate entities control the vast majority of the news Canadians receive. And they are speading their tentacles globally. What is occuring in Canada can easily occur elsewhere.
As the editor of the Manitoba New Democrat, I write for one of the few alternative presses remaining in Canada. But that is not enough - Thank god for the Internet and its medium of free communication. This Web Site - always in the process of re-construction - represents a simple attempt at providing some links to alternative media on the web. Hopefully, some will follow those links and find informative alternatives to the issues that define our present situation.
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