Tabs from my other browser

Sometimes at the end of a day I leave some tabs open, bookmarking things I found interesting, and the next day I see if they’re bloggable. These two are.

This is a very good piece on the wider implications of the student strike and Jean Charest’s penchant for handing public money to private interests while expecting the shortfall to be made up by a passive electorate.

Chantal Hébert talks about why so many people find voting irrelevant: “It should surprise no one that governments who treat the rule of law as a pesky inconvenience will eventually breed the same attitude in those that they purport to legislate for.”