Afterwards just about everybody agreed, it wasn't one of Donald Trump's better days. He was up at 3:14 am angrily tweeting out this: Which let's face it, wasn't very Presidential. Just very Trump.Only to have his day, a few hours later, become even worse.Read more »
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Barry Ritholtz comments on Donald Trump’s choice to model his budgetary policy on the combination of freebies for the rich and attacks on everybody else that produced nothing but misery in Kansas: Kansas has been a disaster, with giant budget shortfalls, service cuts,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Levitz discusses the glaring gap between Americans’ policy preferences, and the outcomes from a political system which falls far short of representing most people in the face of the influence of the ultra-rich. And Matthew Yglesias comments on the hack gap
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hog Trump and the Big Blue Wave
It's hard to tell when Hog Trump is honking louder than usual, for he does honk all the time.But he is squealing really loudly these days about a caravan of desperate men, women, and children fleeing poverty and violence.He's even accusing some of them of being Middle Eastern terrorists, even though there is no
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Don Pittis writes that the disastrous results of the U.S.’ giveaways to corporations and wealthy individuals – including a ballooning deficit which isn’t contributing to any improvement in the rate of economic growth, together with an expectation that people will pay the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Deadly Deniers
We've known for a long time that Donald Trump is a climate change denier. For a long time his ridiculous tweets have made that only too clear. And although the sweltering heat, and all those hurricanes, have forced him to admit that in his words "something is going on out
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP Leader Jason Kenney drops hints of radical plans during policy fan dance before Calgary Chamber of Commerce
A recent speech by Jason Kenney to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce indicates the Alberta Opposition leader intends to ram a radical program through the Legislature with minimal public consultation if his United Conservative Party wins the election likely to be held in 2019. Oddly, it took almost a week
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why We Should Be Scared About Fascism in America
When I was in high school my friends used to make fun of me for regularly predicting that fascism was coming to America.And telling them that if they thought it couldn't happen here, they were dead wrong, or worse dangerously deludedBut as the years went by, I began to think
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Unfazed by Donald Trump, what will Stephen Harper make of far-right revival in Bavaria?
I wonder what former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper will make of the success of the scary far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in Sunday’s elections in the South German state of Bavaria? Apparently, significant numbers of Bavarian voters have concluded nothing could possibly go wrong if they elect a bunch
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Donald Trump Driving Progressives Crazy?
Like a lot of progressives, I've always clung to the happy thought that Donald Trump would go crazy before I did.It seemed like a no-brainer. No President has ever disgusted so many people all over the world with his abominable ignorance, and his vulgar behaviour.No President has scared so many people,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tiffany Crawford interviews Kirsten Zickfeld about the contradiction between new fossil fuel infrastructure and any serious attempt to reverse our climate breakdown. Murray Mandryk offers a reminder of the local costs of climate change. Fatima Syed highlights how Doug Ford’s supposed climate plan
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Harris writes that we shouldn’t expect politicians to lead the way toward the action we need to combat climate change. Katie Dangerfield reports on new research showing that the economic effects of carbon pricing are modest, while ignoring climate change will have
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP finally – after an ever-so-excruciating wait – shows rogue nomination candidate Lance Coulter the door
Give Lance Coulter credit: The guy seems to be a very hard worker. Leastways, the United Conservative Party nomination candidate in the Edmonton-Henday West Riding certainly had to work extremely hard to get himself kicked out of the party’s nomination process. Finally, late yesterday morning, the UCP – oh, so
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Stand by for renewed attacks on Tzeporah Berman as UCP tries to change channel on ‘Soldiers of Odin’ embarrassment
After a difficult weekend doing damage control about how members of an anti-immigration group with white supremacist links were welcomed to a United Conservative Party beer-and-selfies night last Friday by an Edmonton constituency association, expect the right-wing Opposition party to dip into its strategic playbook to try to change the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Is there life after NAFTA?
Like all sensible folk I was myself opposed to the NAFTA at the outset, convinced that it did more for the corporations than for the rest of us. I’m still of that view. Is it possible that the biggest change that is now taking place is in the name
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Assorted content to end your week. – Nicholas Shaxson writes that the UK’s disproportionate dependence on the financial sector is akin to the resource curse facing Western Canada among so many other jurisdictions: (T)he finance curse had more parallels with the resource curse than we had first imagined. For one
Continue readingAlberta Politics: There’s a meeting in Calgary tonight, and the people there are going to be very, very angry
Two well-heeled older men who never wanted for anything during their upbringings and now live comfortable, privileged lives will be getting together in Calgary this evening to talk about just how very, very angry they are. The idea of a $15-per-hour minimum wage makes them very, very angry. The idea
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the corporate sellouts in the Libs’ new version of NAFTA – including a little-discussed chapter designed to turn anti-regulatory bias into official policy for an entire continent. For further reading…– The text of the USCMA is here, with Chapter 28 (PDF) forming the subject of most of the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Donald Trump Was Exposed As A Sham
It had to be one of Donald Trump's worst days as President. For the hits just kept on coming. Boom. Boom. Boom.Each one hit him like a cruise missile, left him looking like that other mad emperor.Naked as a baby.Or as grubby as a mobster.Read more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Judy Paul discusses how everybody benefits from the fight against inequality: Also of interest is the levels of trust and community life were stronger in more equal societies. There is more mixing of people from various socio-economic groups in more equal countries and
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