Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- John Allemang’s profile of Jack Layton is well worth a read in full. But after a campaign where any show of support can easily be written off as a matter of party scripting, it’s well worth noting the spontane…
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- In case we didn’t already have enough examples of the Wall government’s contempt for voting, James Wood notes that it’s dragging its heels on authorizing any enumeration before the official writ period. That fig…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On credibility gaps
Since I haven’t yet seen this story linked to the spin which seems to have made it necessary, let’s put two and two together.The professionals responsible for maintaining the solvency of the Canada Pension Plan have made it clear that the CPP is capabl…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consensus-building
Kady’s post on the composition and chairing of committees notes that there’s some risk the Cons could try to use their majority to rewrite the rules. But it’s worth pointing out that there doesn’t look to be much precedent for that step in recent decad…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The McGill Institute’s Election Content Analysis includes plenty of interesting information on how this month’s federal election was covered. But the most noteworthy point looks to be the lag time between dev…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Andre Visior & Kay Stone – Sunrise
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On questions and answers
Lawrence Martin’s theory on how the NDP can start making Question Period more substantive looks to be a good start. But I’ll add that there’s one more consideration worth taking into account – especially in the early days of the new Parliament.After al…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On losing strategies
Sure, Greg is right to criticize the Libs for being willing to provoke a national unity crisis for political gain. But I’m not sure when that became reason for surprise: have we already forgotten that the party’s main Quebec strategy during its stay in…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- thwap is among a few bloggers to rightly slam the Cons’ obscene message to flooded Quebeckers that the only way they can hope for help is if somebody stands to profit from it:Toews (is) justifying removing Canadian F…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On shadows
A couple of quick notes on the NDP’s shadow cabinet announced today…The most intriguing set of announcements comes in the form of several up-and-coming MPs assigned to a counterintuitive set of roles. Indeed, if one had to guess on the placement of L…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On continued momentum
In case there’s any doubt, the usual caveats about paying too much attention to polling are probably all the more important now that any federal election is more than four years away. But with that caution out of the way, it’s certainly worth watching …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Wall government has turned what would be considered “corrupt practices” in any other voting process into a rational strategy for employers trying to prevent workers from organizing.
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