The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
B. W. POWEIt began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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