Yes, Geoff Leo’s debunking of Bill Hutchinson’s supposed “mainstreeting” is well worth a view. But I’d think the story deserves to be taken somewhat more seriously than it has been so far.After all, it’s hard to see Hutchinson’s setup as anything but a…
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Accidental Deliberations: Misled
Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I’d think it’s long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a goal worth pursuing. But Dan Gardner points out the role that Parliament …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Style vs. substance
The first obvious takeaway from tonight’s Saskatchewan leaders’ debate was the need for both more debate and more debaters. And for all the criticism of the exclusion of other parties’ leaders, the bigger issue may have been a painfully shortened forma…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning questions
Has any government, anywhere, ever done as little in a four-year term as the Saskatchewan Party will admit to planning in its platform?Does anybody expect the Saskatchewan Party to break the mould?And if not, what’s been left out of the platform that’s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On boomerang effects
Accusing one’s opponents of having a hidden agenda has become a matter of standard-issue political strategy. But accusing one’s opponents of having a hidden agenda identical to one’s own takes rather more creativity. And chutzpah. And contortionism.So …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out what a “Buffett tax” could do for Canada:Put Larry and his 99 fellow CEOs together, and they could put almost a 10% down payment on a national program to bring dental care to school k…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On nuclear testing
One of the obvious questions facing Saskatchewan voters in the lead up to this fall’s election is that of how much credit (if any) Brad Wall and his government should be able to claim for economic gains based mostly on favourable resource prices. So le…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan’s election campaign is shaping up as a choice between personality and policy.And for the latest noteworthy policy proposal from the NDP, see yesterday’s community hospital announcement.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– James Laxer points out how overreach by the wealthy and powerful inevitably leads to backlash – and how we’re just scratching the surface of what’s to come:
(R)ight-wing revolts can get out of hand and can cre…
Accidental Deliberations: On gullibility
I’m pretty sure I’ve read columns and articles purporting to be written by Murray Mandryk over a period of several years. But I’m having trouble making sense of that recollection after he’s gone out of his way to demonstrate that he was born yesterday….
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day.
– Leftdog points out that the Wall government’s regressive ideology is doing exactly what it usually does – resulting in workers losing ground as a result of stagnant wages and skyrocketing costs even as billions of d…
Continue readingAccidental 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: Frequently-quoted answers to simple questions
Pogge asks:Is (Brad) Wall so uninformed that he doesn’t know about (federal subsidies for the oil sands)?It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.This has been a first edition of frequentl…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading…- While I agree with Murray Dobbin’s latest to a point, I’d think it’s worth clarifying exactly what kind of fight we can and should expect from the NDP over the next four years. To the extent one consid…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on the hostile labour environment that’s developing as federal and provincial governments alike use back-to-work legislation as a pre-emptive attack on workers. For further reading (which should be familiar to those who read the blog re…
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Here, on how the Wall government’s economic strategy is resulting in Saskatchewan paying more to get less out of private-sector development.
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Brian Topp’s initial observations on the new sitting of Parliament include this note on the Libs’ interim leader:(A)s a footnote, Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae was also interesting in these exchanges. H…
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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.
Continue readingMaking up for lost time
Lots of stuff going on since I last posted here. Besides the Rider’s being in the Western Semi-final today, I mean. Dr. Jim Harding, ardent no-nukes activist and author, has started a website to provide an archive of material related to the nuc…
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