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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses how a “COVID zero” strategy has been successfully executed elsewhere – and could be achieved in Canada as well. But in case we needed a reminder as to the numerous ways in which our current governments are falling painfully
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Dolan reports on new research showing the connection between a sense of entitlement and a refusal to take basic steps to protect public health in a pandemic. And Francine Kapun reports on the Peel region’s move to fine employers who don’t put
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On missed opportunities
There has been plenty of commentary and analysis about the results of Saskatchewan’s provincial election – including some discussion on the theme of an overly risk-averse NDP campaign. But I’ll follow up with one specific example of what may have been missing from the party’s message. One of the key
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andre Picard discusses the need for governments to take direct action to stop the spread of the coronavirus, rather than merely sending muddled messages about personal responsibility. And Amir Attaran and Lorian Hardcastle make the case for far stronger action by Canada’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nazaneei Ismail Ali discusses how public procurement can and should be a means of improving social and economic conditions, not merely a source of easy profits for well-connected corporate contractors. Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on an all-too-rare reprisal decision against a farm employer who
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ricky Leong writes that any meaningful effort to stop the coronavirus has to include enforcement to deal with the people who haven’t responded to moral suasion. – Lauren Mascarenhas reports on the CDC’s belated recognition that masks benefit both wearers and others in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On jurisdictional barriers
Scott Gilmore rightly points out the need for a far more clear national response to COVID-19. But I’d think we can expand on the point with reference to a couple of other familiar jurisdictional disputes – even as those also highlight which provincial governments need to be called out as
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Economist examines how much of Europe has been put into a renewed lockdown due to the second wave of COVID-19. But PressProgress points out how Brian Pallister’s rush to reopen has resulted in Manitoba seeing soaring infection rates rather than a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dimitri Lascaris argues that while Donald Trump has lost the presidential election, the unfair society which allowed him to take power in the first place remains. And Susan Delacourt offers her take on the spread of Trumpism to Canada. – The Star’s editorial
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning question
Just where could Scott Moe have picked up the idea that a glaring lack of judgment, flagrant disregard for the law and reckless endangerment of the public are somehow acceptable characteristics in a cabinet minister?
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board is rightly aghast at Doug Ford’s choice to facilitate the spread of the coronavirus as a devastating fall wave hits, while Bruce Arthur writes that there may be no choice but to impose a lockdown as
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On first steps
Hey look, some positive election results! Congratulations to everybody who ran in Regina’s municipal elections (and in those around the province) – and particularly the progressive electees who will have the chance to shape policy for the next four year. But while it’s a relief to have representatives in place
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kelly Grant and Andrea Woo write that soaring infection numbers show how Canada’s response to COVID-19 has fallen far short of the mark. Andre Picard makes the point – which seems obvious to everybody other than right-wing premiers – that loosening restrictions on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer another look (PDF) at the growth of income and wealth inequality in the U.S. Andrew Jackson and Toby Sanger examine (PDF) the case for an annual net wealth tax to reduce its severity in Canada. And
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday #yqrvotes Links
Having previously posted on voters’ options, I’ll offer one more roundup of the latest on Regina’s municipal elections (for those who haven’t joined the crowds voting early). – The lead up to election day has seen the Regina Public School Board take some additional steps to protect students, including by
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On advance preparation
I’ve noted before that Scott Moe’s spring election posturing prevented Elections Saskatchewan from putting together a full postal balloting system for this fall’s provincial election. And I haven’t yet heard of any municipalities going to a full vote-by-mail balloting system for their subsequent votes (though I’d be interested to hear
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Life as Politics
[Asef Bayat. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.] A book about struggles for social change in the Muslim Middle East, mostly focused on Iran and Egypt but with scattered references to other countries as well. The first edition
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