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Philosophy professor Daniel Weinstock* was on Power and Politics this evening, talking with Evan Solomon about Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament. For the past couple of weeks Daniel has been working on a short article that he’s been circulating amongst Canadian political philosophers, constitutional lawyers, and poli sci profs, and which sort of went academically viral. It now has almost 200 signatures and more are coming in all the time.

The new LRC is out, of course!

Run don’t walk to your nearest newsstand. Can you really afford to be the person at BlogCentral who hasn’t read Paul Wells’ review of John English’s much-palavered new Trudeau bio? Oh, you want timeliness? Then check out David Dunne’s review of The Age of Persuasion, the O’Reilly/Tennant book that launched on Tuesday. It’s smarts you are looking for? Then dig in to Daniel Weinstock’s review of the two volumes of James Tully’s collected essays, Public Philosophy in a New Key.

Read those three and you’ve already got your $6.50 worth, and we haven’t even looked at Kate Taylor’s review of Sarah Jennings’ history of the National Arts Centre, Janice G. Stein’s essay on animal spirits in the global economy, or the always fun letters.

 

So the Canucks are through, winning their fourth straight with a goal in the last minute of first overtime. Good for them: It’s the playoffs, someone had to win the series, and I’m glad there’ll be at least one Canadian team to cheer on for another couple of weeks.