Here, on how Brad Wall’s first set of utterly implausible attacks on Cam Broten seems to reflect a failure to learn from the mistakes of the Saskatchewan Party’s Republican cousins. For further reading (and a quick response to the spin), Broten’s policy development proposal is here.
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Canadian Political Viewpoints: Coming Down the Pipeline
*This post has been amended from it’s original content, due to SK NDP Leader Cam Broten coming out in favour of Keystone; the ** denotes the area where the editing begins.Source: Star Phoenix: Broten Clarifies Stance on Pipeline Source: Huffington Post: Brad Wall Accuses Thomas Mulcair Of ‘Betraying’ Keystone, Oilsands
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tim Harper reminds us why Brad Wall is thoroughly off base in claiming that it’s the duty of every Canadian politician to demonstrate constant fealty to his resource-sector puppet-masters: The Conservatives, of course, would like the entire country to come together behind their
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Selling the lie
Shorter Brad Wall: Of course neither Stephen Harper nor any of his provincial mini-petro-states has any interest in actually dealing with climate change. But as long as we rev up our PR machine to claim otherwise, surely Barack Obama will be none the wiser.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On social roles
The work (PDF) of the Saskatchewan Election Study in analyzing public views of unions is worth a read generally. But it’s particularly worth noting that the element of union activity which the public considers to be most valuable is also the part facing the most regular attacks from Brad Wall
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The Education of Tim McMillan
Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources Tim McMillan has seen fit to respond to last week’s column on Keystone XL and its connection to climate policy. But it’s well worth noting that McMillan’s argument looks to fall short on a few fronts. Let’s start with the fact that McMillan doesn’t
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On responsibility
Leftdog has already weighed in on one key connection to be drawn based on the latest news about the siphoning of money from a supposed attempt to toward insiders with a sole-sourced deal to provide computers at inflated prices. But let’s look at a couple more points arising out of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on Brad Wall’s off-key lobbying against action on climate change – and why we should see the bright side of having the Obama administration push us toward more sound environmental policy when far too many Canadian leaders have failed in their responsibilities. For further reading…– Wall’s simultaneous lobbying for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
Brad Wall’s contrived outrage over foreign interference in domestic policy might be a bit less laughable if he didn’t make so much of a show of trying to dictate the U.S.’ own decisions. [Edit: fixed wording.]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
This and that to end your week. – Bruce Campbell argues that Alberta should take a lesson from Norway on how to manage natural resources – and plenty of other provinces could stand to take notes as well: The Norwegian government owns 80 per cent of petroleum production, and retains
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Campaign: Health4All asks Ontario to follow other provinces to protect refugee healthcare
Even right-wing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks it’s wrong. Recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health program for refugees have led to a storm of criticism by the medical community and provincial politicians across Canada. While Immigration Minister Jason Kenney … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On forced growth
Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign has featured plenty of discussion as to how to define success as a party and a province. But it’s well worth contrasting the varying forms of quality-of-life and social health themes being debated within the NDP against an announcement which epitomizes the appallingly narrow focus of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to Simon Enoch’s study of corporate power in Saskatchewan – and suggesting that we use the networks mapped out by Enoch in analyzing the Saskatchewan Party’s corporatist policy choices. Again, Enoch’s study is available here. And you’ll find some of my previous writing about
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Pollster’s take on Alberta leaders’ popularity sets stage for long Prairie slug-fest
Shades of things to come? Alison Redford, Canada’s second most popular premier, gets ready to break a board with Opposition Leader Danielle Smith’s face on it. Situations Alberta politicians find themselves in may not be exactly as described. Below: Ms. Smith. Alison Redford remains Canada’s second most popular premier behind
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Here, on the need for the labour movement to reach beyond currently-unionized workplaces to address the needs of unrepresented workers – and the positive signs on that front. For further reading…– Thomas Walkom recognizes the same common interests between workers in different types of workplaces, but worries that the labour
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford responds to the claim that we should be eager to import whatever capital we can for lack of other means of developing our own resources: Measured by foreign direct investment, Canada has been exporting capital, not importing it. During the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, giving credit to the Saskatchewan Party for eventually doing the right thing in funding refugee health expenses – but questioning their selective and PR-motivated claim to compassion.For further reading…The timeline on the issue of refugee heal…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Down the drain
There’s rightly been plenty of debate over the Sask Party’s recently-announced plan to. But there looks to me to be room to take a closer look at exactly what Brad Wall is determined to give away – so let’s take a back-of-the-envelope look at the profi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s unprecedented attack ads against the participants in another party’s leadership race represent an attempt to silence all political debate that isn’t pre-approved by the marketing departments of its own resource-industry backers. As an addendum to the column, I’ll note that the leadership candidates have
Continue readingAlberta Diary: You can’t overlook convenient hours if you hope to preserve the obvious benefits of public liquor sales
In Alberta, this kid would be buying Jägermeister and Red Bull. Below: The Parkland study; Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. In one regard, Alberta’s 1993 experiment in liquor store privatization has been a resounding success. To wit: almost everyone thinks it worked. I was reminded of this reality earlier this week
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