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alexhim.bsky.social
Former federal public servant and academic, NGOs, writer. Most recent book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge
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A plaintive call for Proportional Representation: The far-right has doubled its support in Germany. But they’re no more popular than the left, and 80% did not vote for fascists. What are the lessons to learn www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

A plaintive call for Proportional Representation: The far-right has doubled its support in Germany. But they’re no more popular than the left, and 80% did not vote for fascists. What are the lessons to learn www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

Excerpted and adapted from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge - What it will take to deal with American decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis

The essential arts thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

A pragmatic approach to interprovincial trade that does not exaggerate the benefit nor lead to a race to the bottom www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“Everything is impossible until it is done.” x.com/davenewworld...

“Everything is impossible until it is done.” x.com/davenewworld...

Making every day flag day rabble.ca/politics/can...

Well this is absolutely revolting on every single level

Making every day flag day rabble.ca/politics/can...

This is a must read, if we are to understand how we got to where we are today. The Trumpigarchs bring us what @alexhim.bsky.social calls "peak neoliberalism, the perfect expression of the disdain for democracy...the economization of everything, life as a zero-sum game of winners and losers..."

Excerpted and adapted from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge - What it will take to deal with American decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis

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Americans don’t seem to grasp how angry we are. We do them a disservice if we fail to communicate that. “The US has become a threat to our way of life, and if Canadians don't boo to show we'll resist, we'll never boo anything. The hockey game's big. Country's bigger,” brucearthur.bsky.social

Happy Flag Day afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/t...

Happy Flag Day afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/t...

“You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.” youtu.be/_GvJRbZMEjk

Q: Will the book on the right be destined to suffer the same fate as the books on the left? (That is, get returned to the library to be replaced by my own copy?) A: Yes! 👍 📚 Thanks to @davidmoscrop.com for recommending Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, by @alexhim.bsky.social

Why are our political leaders going to D.C. looking for answers? There can be no appeasing. There can be no negotiating under threat. The answers aren’t in Washington. There here at home and with like-minded countries and others similarly threatened.

Why are our political leaders going to D.C. looking for answers? There can be no appeasing. There can be no negotiating under threat. The answers aren’t in Washington. There here at home and with like-minded countries and others similarly threatened.

We need to stand our ground and hit back hard - and smart: Labour leaders say Trump’s “reckless” and “devastating” tariffs will only hurt workers in both Canada and the United States

In some ways, Donald Trump resembles the heroes of our “neoliberal stories”: a filthy rich entrepreneur who took what he wanted and rolled over those who stood in his way. “He could have been written by Ayn Rand, on a bad day,” writes @alexhim.bsky.social. thewalrus.ca/common-sense-pol...

#CanadaForever #BlueskyCanada #CanadaSky

It’s time to fight back, stand up for Canada, and sign the pledge

It’s time to fight back, stand up for Canada, and sign the pledge

Someone once said appeasers are simply trying to convince the crocodile to eat them last. It’s to to sign up and fight back engagement-canada-pledge.ca

#cdnpoli #cdnsovereignty #Canada

Check this out and then read the whole damn book for goodness sake.

Cutting services and taxes is treated like conventional wisdom. But it’s led to a world that doesn’t work for many of us. Here, former civil servant and academic @alexhimelfarb probes into the many problems with “common sense” politics: t.co/MJ8MFoUFgE

Grateful to Mark Tewksbury and others who launched the engagement-canada-pledge.ca ! TY @alexhim.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social

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