On Saturday. The CBC tells us that it is the harbinger of an economic awakening and:
Canadian organizers are revving up their plans for the Occupy Wall Street-conceived global action day, the most adventurous idea yet for a movement that some experts say has the potential to trigger a major shift in the economic thinking of governments and big corporations.
Here we can see some of the organisers. I think I spot a couple of Macbook pros, a Macbook, a Dell and an HP laptop, all brought to the anti-big-corporation occupiers courtesy of big corporations.
I was planning on attending, but have decided instead to experience my economic awakening in the comfort of my study where I can savour the onset of a new epoch of halcyon accord without distraction.
It feels like the ’60s again.
Wasn’t the trigger for all this the huge bonuses the CEOs of the bailed out companies got? Or the (lack of) regulations that allowed the banks and savings and loan companies to take ridiculous risks, because, after all, they were too big to fail? What do you think of those issues? Do you think the US could learn from the way Canada regulates our banks? None of ours needed to be bailed out, after all.
I agree Kate. I don’t understand what is being protested in Canada.
I listened to one on CBC Radio 1 yesterday, sounded typically 60’s Marxist.
I suspect my hard-working, ultra-conservative, farming relatives in AB have an equally dim view of Wall Street. What’s up with that?