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	James Laxer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1969, Laxer, along with his father Robert Laxer and Mel Watkins, founded the Waffle, a radical left wing group influenced by the New Left, the anti-Vietnam War movement and Canadian economic nationalism, that tried to win control of the New Democratic Party.
		In 1971, Laxer ran for the leadership of the federal NDP, and shocked the convention by winning one-third of the vote against David Lewis.
		Laxer remains prominent as an author, columnist and commentator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Laxer (275 words)

	Robert Laxer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laxer was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1915 and graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 1936 and an M.A. in 1939.
		In 1969, he joined his son, James Laxer, and Mel Watkins to form the Waffle, a socialist group within the New Democratic Party.
		In the 1980s, Laxer was active in the Council of Canadians, the peace movement, and as an opponent of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Laxer (322 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Menachem Mendel Laxer, the son of an Orthodox Montreal rabbi and the recipient of a post-graduate degree in psychology, was an organizer and then a member of the central committee of the Communist Party in Canada.
		Laxer, who ran second to David Lewis for the national leadership of the New Democratic Party in 1971, writes that his childhood was defined by their outlook.
		Laxer’s mother, whose father had been a Methodist missionary in China, was radicalized by her membership in the Student Christian Movement at the University of Toronto.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5106 (996 words)

	Varsity Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Laxer, a professor of political science at York University and author of 13 previous works, brings together his various trips to the US in the book.
		Laxer seems unsure of his tone in many chapters - such as using an inappropriately casual style to convey pages of statistics linked by a weak metaphor or story line.
		Generally, Laxer's points become weaker when one considers that he has, without stating it, limited himself almost entirely to an observation of the right-wing aspects of a country which is in fact clearly divided, as these recent elections have shown.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/121/nov27/review/yawn.html (544 words)

	F0166 - James Laxer fonds
		James Laxer is a professor, author, and political activist.
		In 1969, Laxer was one of the founders of Canada's largest New Left political movement known as the Waffle.
		Since 1986, Laxer has been a Professor of Political Science at the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies (previously Atkinson College), York University where he lectures on the post-war global economic order, the Canadian political economy, and the government and politics of the New Europe.
	archivesfa.library.yorku.ca /fonds/ON00370-f0000166.htm (405 words)

	A rare glimpse at Canadian Stalinism -- by Robert Fulford
		James Laxer made headlines in 1969 as part of the Waffle faction that threatened to turn the New Democrats into a militant socialist party.
		James was circumcised in a Montreal hospital, then baptized at Deer Park United in Toronto, both of the grandfathers being clergymen -- one a rabbi in Montreal, the other a Toronto-based Methodist missionary.
		James and his brother were the only kids on their street who cheered (in private) for the North during the Korean war.
	www.robertfulford.com /2004-09-11-laxer.html (721 words)

	Eye Weekly - On Page - 03.20.97
		Laxer is a social democrat, but in a time when the level of neoconservative ideological dominance borders on the inexplicable, social democracy appears almost a radical idea.
		Laxer's advises against buying into the corporate mentality, whereby the vulture that is late capitalism is accepted as here-to-stay, so that even the socially minded among us must work within its parameters.
		At his best when writing in the first-person, Laxer's chapter on the Waffle -- a radical branch of the NDP existing briefly in the late '60s/early '70s and which he himself was instrumental in creating -- is the stuff that should inspire any would-be activist.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.20.97/plus/onpage.html (628 words)

	James Laxer - About James Laxer
		James Laxer is regularly asked to comment on current national and global issues by the Canadian media and frequently writes columns in major newspapers and periodicals.
		In 1984, the National Film Board of Canada hired Laxer to be host narrator, for a series of documentaries on the changing global economy and Canadaâs place in it.
		James Laxer is a Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto.
	www.jameslaxer.com /about.htm (444 words)

	Book Review - James Laxer's The Undeclared War: Class COnflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism by Sandra Magnussson
		Laxer makes it clear that this conflict is one between classes - those who own or manage capital and those who must work for a wage or salary.
		Laxer does not pull any punches identifying the sources of misery for a large portion of the population: the efforts of capitalists to achieve total dominance.
		Laxer sums it up best when he states that: capitalism works best for a small minority of the world's people, condemns hundreds of millions to exploitation and a stunted existence, and leaves billions, particularly in the Third World, in a state of poverty or near poverty.
	www.ualberta.ca /PARKLAND/post/OldPost/Vol3_No1/Magnusson-classconflict.html (904 words)

	Dymaxion World: James Laxer is old, cranky, and is bothering me
		Laxer, some of whose books I own, have read, and enjoyed, was born in 1941 and raised by avowedly Marxist parents.
		But if you were, like Laxer, born in the 1940s, and raised on stories of the fight against Fascism (like all children his age, not just the left, were) the lesson is clear: the forces of the Right need to be fought, vigorously, and with as much unity as the left and center can muster.
		What Laxer should have added is this: In previous times the NDP measured success in terms of how many of their policies became accepted by the vast majority of Canadians as good policy.
	dymaxionworld.blogspot.com /2006/09/james-laxer-is-old-cranky-and-is.html (3947 words)

	The Canadian National Newspaper: Jack Layton and Stephen Harper forge an apparent alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Laxer further elaborated that "for Layton, winning twenty-nine seats and 17.5 percent of the popular vote represented an electoral triumph vindicating a very particular campaign strategy: an attack focused almost exclusively on the scandal-plagued Liberal government.
		James Laxer then acknowledges that "Layton's speech capped a campaign in which he studiously avoided warning Canadians about any potential threat from Harper and the Conservatives.
		Laxer went on to indicate that "Following negotiations with the Liberals that seemed designed to fail, Layton broke with the Martin government in a letter to health minister Ujjal Dosanjh on November 7, 2005.
	www.agoracosmopolitan.com /home/Frontpage/2006/08/21/01224.html (1435 words)

	Uptown Magazine Online - Arts
		Meanwhile, Laxer’s parents, the son of a rabbi and the daughter of a Methodist minister, were struggling to overthrow capitalism.
		Laxer writes that he and his family divided their lives into discrete compartments, all of which came with a constant need for secrecy — a situation aggravated by his mixed heritage.
		Laxer writes movingly about one particular morning when his father came into his bedroom as young Jim was just waking up and told him that Stalin was dead.
	www.uptownmag.com /archive/arts/04sept02.htm (517 words)

	Stalking the Elephant
		Laxer takes the position that "it's become utterly artificial to analyze Canada without taking into account the immense American influences on the country." We are firmly in the US orbit, and unless we make some deliberate choices about ourselves, the default result will be whatever the US wants.
		Laxer inserts some numbers and statistics into his essays, but they aren't the least dry.
		None the less, with a flair reminiscent of John McPhee and Tim Cahill, Laxer shows the dangers of being in bed with the elephant.
	www.nucleus.com /~keith/stalkingelephant.html (754 words)

	<< Welcome to the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Book Store >> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When James Laxer was born in a Montreal hospital, his father was living in hiding under an assumed name.
		James' parents were dedicated members of the Communist Party, true believers in an ideology that was generally reviled and had been outlawed during much of World War II.
		From an early age, Laxer was collecting signatures on ban-the-bomb petitions, delivering Party flyers door to door, attending eccentric left-wing Camp Naivelt and campaigning for the charistmatic J.B. Salsberg, a Communist MPP in the Ontario legislature.
	utpjournals.com /online/merchant.ihtml?pid=682817&step=4 (277 words)

	NIH: Where Do Bad Books Come From?
		Laxer's travels for that book actually had something to do with its topic, while his travels for this one are not only irrelevant but also about as interesting as listening to Joe Clark explain how he organizes his sock drawer.
		Laxer went along with it because he was willing to allow for the possibility that he was wrong and the publisher was right.
		Laxer's execution of the project is often lacklustre, it is difficult to think of any way in which any significant amount of lustre could have been injected into the travel sections.
	home.interlog.com /~jfitzger/badbooks.htm (1068 words)

	Leadership Conventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		James Shaver Woodsworth was unanimously elected temporary president (leader) at the founding meeting of the C.C.F., at Calgary, on 1 August 1932; there were 105 delegates present.
		Major James William Coldwell was unanimoulsly elected C.C.F. president (leader), at Toronto, in July 1942.
		Hazen Argue was elected leader of the C.C.F. without contest, on 11 August 1960, at the national convention held in Regina.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/related/Parties/LeaderConv.asp?Language=E¶m=4 (125 words)

	counterweights - USA TODAY: NOT EXACTLY A NEW CIVIL WAR .. BUT .. Mrs. Sheehan and Ms. Baez at the United Nations?
		The second is an article by James Laxer — former chief Waffle protester of the New Democratic Party in Canada, from the days when Joan Baez was still so young and beautiful.
		Laxer’s analysis here, for the Urquhart—Haas theory of a viable US foreign policy, is not that it follows any obvious parallel paths.
		Laxer hopefully concludes in his penultimate sentences: "It may be that an enhanced and emboldened UN would provide the greatest protection to our beleaguered neighbour to the south, by relieving it of the burden of empire."
	www.counterweights.ca /cms/content/view/77 (3130 words)

	Quill & Quire
		Laxer grew up in Montreal, Ottawa, and finally Toronto, his childhood in the 1940s and â50s was, in many ways, normal.
		But Laxerâs childhood wasnât entirely normal: his parents were communists.
		Laxer does a brilliant job of conveying the confusion of trying to negotiate these two worlds as a child.
	www.quillandquire.com /reviews/review.cfm?review_id=4042 (449 words)

	Decision 2003 - CTV.ca
		Laxer said he doesn't expect the Green Party, or any party, to win any of the ridings during this election.
		Laxer used the example of the Reform Party, founded by Preston Manning.
		Laxer said a generation ago, over 70 per cent of Ontarians voted.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/1064602415929_60011615?s_name=ontarioElection2003&no_ads= (637 words)

	Douglas & McIntyre - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		James Laxer’s parents were dedicated members of the Communist Party, true believers in an ideology that was generally reviled and had been outlawed during much of World War ii.
		From an early age, Laxer was collecting signatures on ban-the-bomb petitions, delivering Party flyers door to door, attending eccentric left-wing Camp Naivelt and campaigning for the charismatic J.B. Salsberg, a Communist mpp in the Ontario legislature.
		It also explains a great deal about Laxer’s eventual and crucial role in the founding of the Wale faction of the ndp, his ongoing engagement with the left and his evolution into one of Canada’s leading intellectuals.
	www.douglas-mcintyre.com /book_details.asp?b=916 (213 words)

	Research@Atkinson: Research Office, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
		James Laxer, a political science professor in York’s Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, said "putting the heat on Martin" to deliver on his election promises is exactly what the NDP has to do to flex its muscle in the minority Parliament.
		James Laxer, a political science professor in York’s Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies and former New Democratic Party research director, says the party must be frustrated with the election's outcome, reported The Globe and Mail July 6.
		Laxer said, "I worry this emphasis of trying to go to the Americans and say look how gung-ho we are about security and hoping to get something on the economic side does imperil the civil rights, the human rights of Canadians." (www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=2755)
	www.atkinson.yorku.ca /Research/AtkResMediaArchives.htm (2946 words)

	babble: NDP in the May 2006 issue of The Walrus
		Political scientist and former NDP insider James Laxer is the author of In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault (Viking, 1996).
		Laxer seems to imply that the NDP is only worthwhile if it adopts the plat form he ran for the NDP leadership on in 1971 (ie: reducing foreign ownership, two price system for oil etc...) even though these are policy areas that are total anachronisms in this day and age.
		Laxer was the intellectual leader of the Waffle movement in the 60s/70s.
	www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=005642&p= (6817 words)

	left
		James Laxer's book is not much appreciated by today's elites.
		James Laxer, one of the leaders of the Waffle, a one time nationalist faction of Canada's only visible social democratic party (the New Democratic Party or NDP) looks through the tea leaves to find out.
		Laxer has put down his answers in a book which turns out to be a credible, instructive, insider's account of Canadian social democracy.
	www3.sympatico.ca /cypher/left.htm (511 words)

	Laxer - Natural-Laxer and Natural-Laxer Plus Differences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		James Laxer - DK Authors - DK Find information on James Laxer, including popular titles and books by James Laxer.
		Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a progressive, Laxer is the author of Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada,
		Laxer joined the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression and worked as a In the 1980s, Laxer was active in the Council of Canadians,
	luckyinternet.com /lknr/laxer.htm (408 words)

	Geist: Endnotes
		Laxer's parents were true believers and his father worked full time for the Party, a fact that had to be kept a secret from friends and teachers.
		There is a little too much of the adult Laxer (a professor of political science) in this memoir—the man who applauds his parents' motives but still believes them to be hopelessly idealistic.
		I admire the Laxers, who took their kids along to stare down police and help homeless families occupy abandoned buildings, and who continue to act on their principles.
	www.geist.com /endnotes/index.php?ID=39 (279 words)

	Trevor Greene
		James Laxer, who is willing to abandon Afghanistan to a fascistic theocracy (his words.)
		It was Laxer, once leader of the Waffle, who drove me into the hands of the trots when we were invited to leave the NDP.
		He and his people started the short lived Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada (Misc) while I remained a member of the stay and fight caucus, which turned out to be mostly International Socialists.
	homepage.mac.com /jimmonk/iblog/C312773420/E20060306155337/index.html (337 words)

	Writers Festival 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Expect the unexpected when Mark Kingwell and James Laxer get together with CBC Radio's Dave Stephens, to launch new books, and explore some of the hottest and most controversial topics of the day.
		James Laxer, one of Canada's leading political thinkers since the late 1960s, is the author of thirteen books, including The Undeclared War and In Search of the New Left.
		A respected newspaper columnist and former host of TVOntario's public affairs show, "The Real Story," James is a professor at York University's Atkinson College and a sought-after public speaker and media commentator on politics, social issues and the wealth divide.
	www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/14900.html (162 words)

	[No title]
		For Laxer and his siblings, however, Kruschev?s admissions begged an examination of previously unquestioned truths.
		Out of this collapse, Laxer draws an unusually balanced perspective on the human history of the twentieth century?s great political schism.
		In contrast, editor Ilan Stavans and biographer James Gibbons have compiled an in-depth portrait, in words and pictures, of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning Polish-American author.
	www.forewordmagazine.com /articles/shw_article.aspx?articleid=82 (1312 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Public debate on these issues, dominated by the ideas of Pierre Trudeau, was extremely limited in scope and failed to provide any compelling sense of hope for the future.
		James Laxer and Robert Laxer seek out the roots of this dilemma with an analysis of the basic strategies of the Liberal Party’s system of governing Canada, instituted by Wilfrid Laurier and refined by the governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson.
		The political legacy that Pierre Trudeau inherited in 1968, they argue, was flawed in both its methods of dealing with an enduring French Canadian nationalism and its shaky underpinnings in Canada's branch-plant economy.
	www.formac.ca /main_book.php?id=291 (152 words)

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