Wednesday, November 16 saw plenty of direct clash between the Cons and the NDP on an issue that’s been in the news again today. And lest there be any doubt, while the Cons have raised their level of inflammatory rhetoric, they’ve been less than convincing when it comes to anything
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Jones writes that we’re well on our way to an only slightly-sanitized version of feudalism: According to news reports this week, the average annual income of the Top 100 CEOs is $8.4 million. That’s less than is paid to superstar puckster Sidney
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Assorted content to end your week. – pogge points out the Cons’ suppression of news that a lack of running water on First Nations reserves facilitated the spread of H1N1 – offering a case in point as to both how neglect of social needs can carry widespread ramifications, and how
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Assorted content for your evening reading. – While I’m less than convinced about his desire to break down party loyalties, David Thompson highlights the need for progressives to fight back against decades of corporatist dominance in both political messaging and policy development: To win over the long run, progressives will
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Monica Townson analyzes the Cons’ private-sector pension scheme and determines that it doesn’t add anything to the privileged treatment already granted to saving by those who can afford it. – pogge points out that as part of Peter MacKay’s desperation in trying
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher points out the type of government that we’ve come to count on under the ultra-controlling Harper political model: This presidentialization of the Canadian system is worrying, not because of some fetishistic attachment to the trappings of Parliament, but because it
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Weston nicely chronicles Peter MacKay’s flat-out lies about how he came to take a $30,000 helicopter ride. And while Weston despairs about the likelihood that MacKay will pay any price, he does point out why we shouldn’t accept anything less: Few things
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – With prorogation looking like it’s bound to be back on the table fairly shortly, Lori Turnbull offers a worthwhile suggestion to end the Cons’ abuses: The 2012 prorogation would be substantively different. First, there is no obvious political land mine to avoid. Second,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Like that’ll work
Sure, a reasonable government would have some shame over its obvious doctoring of Hansard. But isn’t the most likely outcome of the NDP’s new complaint for Clement’s departmental officials to formally certify that no such committee hearing ever took place? Update: Or that would make sense too – particularly if
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Barrie McKenna thoroughly debunks the claim that “financial literacy” alone is enough to put ordinary citizens on a level playing field with the financial industry: Looking to financial literacy to fill the void is like asking ordinary Canadians to be their own brain
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Too close to home
Yes, the threat of a slander suit probably had something to do with Gerry Ritz’ desperate retreat after attacking the Canadian Wheat Board. But more important is the significance of Ritz’ allegation based on what his own party has done: if one consider…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Setting the tone
We’ll find out soon whether the latest Sask Party vote suppression has any impact one way or another on tonight’s election results. But even if not, it may nonetheless be rather significant in setting the province’s narrative for the next four years.Af…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Unethical standards
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…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Untrusted
Daniel Leblanc emphasizes the even lower score for Quebec’s provincial government in Nik Nanos’ trust barometer. But isn’t it rather striking that the Cons’ federal government – which has supposedly enjoyed a free ride since winning a majority – is sti…
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This and that for your weekend reading.- For those looking to paint foreign investment as a panacea for economic development, Paul Krugman offers up (via Kash Mansori) what should be a chilling correlation between capital imbalances and economic disast…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
If there’s any more important qualification for a Harper Con cabinet member than being described as “incredibly stupid” with a “colossal lack of judgment”, it’s a willingess to mislead the public.
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This and that to end your week…- Have no fear, members of the far right: of course the Harper Cons don’t mean it when they sign an environmental protection agreement. Or pretend to disagree with foreign dictators. Or claim they didn’t pressure the ci…
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Libby Davies weighs in on what comes next for the NDP:(Jack Layton) had a vision for Canada that was about inclusivity and fairness, and he was willing to work with others to make this happen.However, …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Accountability in action
Good of the Harper Cons to be positively outraged that the massive cuts they’ve imposed on Environment Canada might result in cuts to Environment Canada. But who wants to bet they’d have been perfectly happy to see Northern water monitoring slashed if …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The journalism continues
Tim Naumetz is at it again:
The administrator for a township in Treasury Board President Tony Clement’s constituency that received $455,350 for projects under the controversial $50-million G8 legacy fund says the township sent all its funding applica…