Since declaring themselves enemies of Amnesty International apparently wasn’t enough villainy for one week, the Harper Cons have also decided to pick a fight with an asbestos widow. Can National Kick a Puppy Day be far behind?
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Accidental Deliberations: A response in kind
Shorter Toronto Star:
We’re *outraged* that our transparently systematic attempt to cause trouble for the NDP was met with an equally systematic refusal to play along.
Update: pogge has more.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Armine Yalnizyan discusses how inequality is no better for business than it is for society at large:
Just a few months ago, two IMF economists, Andrew Berg and Jonathan Ostry, showed that the more equitably…
Accidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
George Acosta feat. Fisher – Beautiful
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.
– The Mark is the latest to point out that the NDP’s success in winning over former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists should be considered a huge victory rather than reason for criticism:
The Globe, at least, notes …
Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
An unnamed person with some clue about economics:
Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the center of public discourse, to focus all our fears on the attack by bond …
Accidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an “adversary” has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they’re on the right side.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The last stand
Glen McGregor breaks a bigger story than he seems to realize, as the Harper Cons are now quite explicitly declaring their intention to take a wrecking ball to the Canadian Wheat Board:
Anyone doubting the government’s commitment to shutting down the …
Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.
– Graham Thomson notes that for all the permutations and combinations that have developed among Alberta’s opposition parties over the past few years, the NDP’s strong principles have positioned it nicely in the…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On targeted development
Shorter Stephen Harper:
To anybody who dares question my free trade agreement with Colombia, I say this: you can’t make a free market omelet without breaking a few skulls. That’s the expression, right?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how B.C.’s HST referendum and Wisconsin’s state Senate recalls should rekindle our interest in setting up direct democratic mechanisms to hold governments accountable between elections.
No followup links for now since both have been amply cov…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
– Marc Lee tears into the “unfunded liabilities” spin on public benefits which is now making an appearance in Canada:
(W)hat’s missing from this horror movie is that this is an artifact of CPP being …
Accidental Deliberations: Still feigned indignation
At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks. But that leads to the next obvious problem: that it’s scolding the NDP…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On broken systems
Let’s add one more to the list of theories as to how the other parties’ pearl-clutching over interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel may actually play to the NDP’s advantage – and this time with a far more immediate effect.
Keep in mind that the last nationa…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Stephen Harper’s rule for others when it comes to interfering in the affairs of other governments:
Tory provincial election rule number one: don’t become the story In other news, Harper becomes the story:
Stephen Harper locks himself in Brazilian min…
Accidental Deliberations: Deep thought
I can think of a few appropriate introductions to a plan belatedly acknowledging the existence of a housing crisis. But proudly pointing to past programs which have evidently accomplished nothing isn’t one of them.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– Andrew Jackson describes the next phase of the global economic crisis:
Now we face a new financial crisis, or at least a stock market correction of major proportions, which may precipitate a new phase of the c…
Accidental Deliberations: On distinguishing factors
Lest there be any doubt, it’s still ridiculous to pretend that any person’s past involvement in a Quebec sovereigntist party should be taken to disqualify that person from Canada’s public discourse. But for those looking to facilitate the Cons’ attacks…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: "We’ve got more to do"
Aaron Wherry’s story on Jack Layton’s new cancer diagnosis includes a reminder as to what needs to be done no matter what happens in Layton’s latest fight:
McGrath prepared herself to find out what was happening on July 25, when a significant test was …