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Right Turn in Canada
BioLeo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panitch is also the author of "Global Capitalism and American Empire" and his most recent release "American Empire and the Political Economy of International Finance". In addition to his university affiliation he is also a co-editor of the Socialist Register the latest volume of which is The Crisis This Time
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Toronto. And in Toronto, the newly elected mayor is Rob Ford, a right-wing populist. In the recent federal election, a majority Conservative government, led by right-wing Stephen Harper. In Ontario, back in Ontario again, the ombudsman report says that the police action during the G-20 may have been the greatest violation of civil rights in the history of Canada--was not even an issue in the recent federal elections. And in the upcoming Ontario elections, who's ahead? Ontario Conservatives. What the heck is going on in Canada? We went and set up the Washington bureau for The Real News, and we came back and I can't recognize this place. Now joining us to try to make some sense of all this for us is Professor Leo Panitch. Leo professes political science at York University, and he's the author of In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives . What the heck is going on here?
LEO PANITCH, COEDITOR, SOCIALIST REGISTER: Well, Paul, on my way down to the studio I passed a woman who used to be a leader of the daycare movement in Canada. She was tending her garden as I walked by. And she asked me whether I was going into exile. JAY: So when I was in Washington watching the coverage of the Canadian election campaign, I kept saying, well, look at The National Post , which is a right-of-center paper that normally likes the Conservative Party, and The Globe and Mail . I was seeing, in article after article, the NDP's doing well, the NDP's ahead in the poll, the NDP surge, the orange surge, with very little negative about the NDP and its politics and what it might be if the NDP were to win the election. And what I'm getting at here is that there was certainly a convergence of interest between the Conservatives and the NDP to wipe out the Liberal Party.University Of Toronto Press - News
will moderate a lively conversation with the editors and contributors (Gene Desfor, Jennifer Bonnel, Susannah Bunce, Hon Q. Lu & Michael Moir). Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront is published by the University of Toronto Press (June 2011).
Dr. Barkin is the past Chief Urologist and present Chief of Staff at a university affiliated Toronto hospital, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Barkin is a Director of the Society of Urologic
Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panitch is also the author of "Global Capitalism and American Empire" and his most
McDonald graduated from Western with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1994 and later earned an MBA from the University of Toronto. He has spent 18 years in the retail sector mainly with Loblaw Companies Ltd, most recently as an executive vice-president.
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, A new book published by University of Toronto Press and edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley. This collection of essays, written by academics from York University, University of Toronto, and the University of Waterloo, details the history and evolution of Toronto’s waterfront, from industrial and transportation port of its past to its continuing post-industrial metamorphosis as Toronto’s new "blue edge."
Toronto has had an ambivalent, complex relationship with its waterfront right from the start. First seen as a military and transportation resource, it soon transformed into aheadache as silt carried down the Don River meant that constant dredging had to be done to keep the area open for ships. Our Lake Ontario shoreline has also been used at various times for shipbuilding, electricity generation, and as a dump for human and animal waste. Waterfront spaces—like those around the Lower Don River, for instance—were viewed as important connections for goods, Tenlay Conway writes in her essay, while simultaneously alienating portions of the growing city that were located eastward.
One of the most fascinating essays in the collection is Paul S.B. Jackson’s account of how fear of disease (in particular cholera) led to a fear of waterfront areas, and how this fear was leveraged and used to promote the filling of Ashbridge’s Bay for industrial purposes, as laid out in the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan. This essay perfectly highlights the book's central theme of the constitutive relationship between nature and society: how society shapes nature, but also how nature shapes society.
The second part of the book deals with the difficulties we've had in lifting the waterfront out of its industrial past and (spurred on by the 1996 Olympic bid) placing it firmly in the post-industrial future, where words like livability and sustainability rule the day. Whether the topic is the remediation of toxic sites or the bureaucratic struggles in developing an area where the federal, provincial, and municipal governments all have a hand in the pot, what is clear from the post-industrial waterfront era is that, while the uses for the area have changed, Toronto’s ambivalent attitude to its shorelines remains. It is seen as a place of potential, but also one of vast difficulties.
The final essay in the book, written by Gene Desfor and Jennifer Bonnell, ties everything together in comparing the current project of re-naturalizing the mouth of the Don River to the changes made to the river during the late 19th century. What’s interesting here is how nature is constructed in relation to capitalism—whether through manipulating and destroying natural ecosystems in order to facilitate industrial development, or manipulating and restoring natural ecosystems to facilitate the development of mixed-use neighbourhoods and urban parks. We continually view waterfront spaces as both natural ecosystems, but also as sites of lucrative investment.
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