We’ve already seen a couple of days of frantic media speculation as to who might succeed Jack Layton as the NDP’s permanent leader, and I’ll add my own list of possibilities before too long. But before considering who might run, it’s worth taking a bro…
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.
– Heather Mallick highlights the dangers of the permanent unemployment which regressive politicians around the globe are so vociferously demanding in the guise of austerity:
As we fend off a double-dip recessio…
Accidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on Jack Layton’s political legacy of choosing principle over political expediency.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On uniformity
While there’s ample reason to be skeptical about how the Cons plan to handle health care over the next few years, let’s note at least one indication that things could be worse:
Ottawa plans to negotiate a single national health accord, not separate agr…
Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon ‘Rider Blogging
I didn’t get around to commenting on the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ last loss before its implications were overtaken by subsequent events. But with the ‘Riders still having another week and a half before they play another game, let’s note that the firin…
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
– Lee Berthiaume and David McGrane both discuss the team and the strategy that helped the NDP to build to its current level of support and success. And it’s worth noting that since the NDP is still in …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on the bright side.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
The Conservatives might stand a better chance being taken seriously in talking about health-care accountability if they hadn’t been the ones to end it.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons’ justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority:
We don’t have a “silent majority” in Canada. It appears we have instead an …
Accidental Deliberations: The ground rules
Not surprisingly, a huge chunk of coverage of Jack Layton’s death has already started shifting toward the inevitable narrative of “woe is the NDP!”. And it’s well worth taking some time to discuss where the party figures to go in a leadership race whic…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: More Layton Links
Another day, another set of commentaries on the life of a great Canadian leader.
– Chantal Hebert notes Layton’s contribution to Canada’s broader political scene:
(Layton) taught Canada’s jaded chattering class that retail politics and the attending a…
Accidental Deliberations: Jack Layton Links
I won’t try to catalogue all of the writing about Jack Layton’s passing today, but here are a few pieces worth a look…
– Steven Staples concludes that Layton’s reputation will rank him second only to the leader who first drew him to the NDP among Ca…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Reason for hope
In keeping with Jack Layton’s message of hope and optimism – expressed in his last letter as well as so many other times throughout his political career – let’s take a moment to note that as much as the NDP will miss his leadership, it will also enjoy …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: RIP Jack Layton
After spending a decade laying the foundation, Jack Layton has tragically died before getting to complete the house that so many said couldn’t be built.
For now, there’s little to do but to offer condolences and grieve the loss of a great Canadian an…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it’s also timed to to override the results of an election.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Just as in this year’s federal election, the NDP will need to look to move voting intentions once the campaign is underway. But also just like in the federal election, there’s reason to like the party’s cha…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On areas of agreement
Of course, one can’t expect Jane Taber’s coverage to note the flip side to the Cons’ strategic distractions. But while Taber hands her report over to Con spinners for a typical dose of NDP concern trolling, let’s note that there’s more common ground th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On analogous choices
John Gormley strains to try to invent analogies between football and politics to support the Sask Party’s cause. (And I’m half disappointed he didn’t have a couple thousand more words to fill, since I’m sure then we’d have been treated to his substance…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Gerald Caplan rightly asks what media outlets think they have to gain by promoting anti-Muslim bigotry:
The goal of the Muslim-haters is surely clear enough. By lumping all Muslims together as terrorists, b…
Accidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Dirty Vegas – Tonight (Above & Beyond Remix)
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