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July 15, 2015 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Covering for Recession Stephen

Shorter Stephen Poloz: Economic reality has a well-known anti-Conservative bias. So in the interest of neutrality, I refuse to apply common terminology to reality.

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January 11, 2014 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: On consistent preferences

Stephen Gordon (among others) took the time to point out that Jim Flaherty’s attacks on the Bank of Canada are both unwise in general, and wrong in terms of economic theory. But even setting aside those critiques, the mot important message to be taken from Flaherty is that he’s once

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November 12, 2013 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot writes that corporate control over a political system may be a huge factor in limiting public participation – even as it makes a substantial counterweight all the more important: The political role of business corporations is generally interpreted as that of

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November 14, 2012 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Duncan Cameron highlights the choice between austerity and prosperity facing the governments of both Canada and the U.S.:The economic realities faced by working people in both Canada and the United St…

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June 29, 2012 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition

Ah, the memories of Stephen Harper and his bestest international buddy deciding what to do about the economic pain they’ve inflicted on the world: Mr. Cameron, hailing Canada as a model of fiscal probity and pointing to his own deep spending cuts, argued that debt cutting is the only way

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January 23, 2012 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review: November 22, 2011

Tuesday, November 22 saw the Cons’ refusal to debate their own government bills reach absurd levels, as Con MPs spent more time arguing against a single opposition private member’s bill than they did defending some of their supposed key priorities. The Big Issue But then, one can hardly blame the

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January 23, 2012 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week. – Erin nicely challenges Brad Wall’s efforts to tilt the playing field against poorer provinces when it comes to Employment Insurance and equalization. – But I’m not sure we can expect much change to EI in any event. After all, as Dr. Dawg notes,

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December 27, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links

Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – Alison Loat offers some suggestions to make political parties more responsive to Canadian voters: (H)ow can parties reorient spending to encourage a more balanced focus across their responsibilities? Political parties serve at least four critical functions: engaging citizens in politics, selecting candidates for

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December 23, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to end your week. – If there’s a more accurate description of the Cons’ entire political strategy than “taking advantage of the prejudice that’s already there”, I haven’t heard it yet. And Chris Lawson is rightly frustrated that Canadian politics are being dominated by such cynical and destructive

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December 18, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your weekend. – Bruce Anderson worries that the Cons might think they face no restriction on their ability to get away with dirty tricks. But Noah Richler suggests that the best way to fight back against the Cons’ disdain for democratic debate is to treat them

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October 16, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Helpful Tip of the Day

Jim Flaherty, fresh off of five years of claiming that Canada’s recession, deficits and increased unemployment levels are all the result of international forces beyond his control as a mere finance minister, is now telling Canadians it’s utterly pointl…

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September 28, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Deep thought

I’m sure it’s utterly preposterous to even suggest that it’s theoretically possible that the Harper Cons might want to torch public money just for the sake of torching public money.

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September 19, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links

Assorted content to start your week.- Once again, the NDP’s popular support is holding up in the face of plenty of predictions to the contrary. But I’m sure we’ll hear all about how the leadership race will do what the scrutiny of an election campaign,…

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September 2, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week.

– Carol Goar asks whether the Harper Cons learned anything whatsoever from a recession which they first deemed impossible, then minimized before acting only under political duress:
We have less manoeuvring room today…

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August 14, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links

Selected text for your weekend reading.

– Edmund Pries points out how the right sees wasted public money and gratuitous tax slashing as tools to force cuts to programs which actually serve a valuable purpose:
During the Reagan era, a friend and former…

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August 12, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition

An unnamed person with some clue about economics:
Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the center of public discourse, to focus all our fears on the attack by bond …

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August 6, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: On warning signs

Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won’t let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that’s done so much to cause it.

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July 15, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: On innumeracy

Yes, we know that math isn’t Deficit Jim Flaherty’s forte. But could it be that he’s still less numerically challenged than the rest of his cabinet colleagues? Let’s check in with someone who’s supposed to be one of the Cons’ brightest lights…”We don…

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July 1, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition

Stephen Harper describes his party’s view of the type of environment needed for any industry to plan for the future and create jobs:“Protecting and creating jobs and ensuring economic growth in all regions remains our Government’s number one priority…

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June 27, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: On downturns

Sure, it might seem like reason for concern that it’s only the type of government spending which the Cons are determined to slash that allowed Canadians in general to somewhat avoid a significant economic collapse over the past few years:In 2009, avera…

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