This and that for your Sunday reading. – Janice Fine discusses how the decline of organized labour as a political force has opened the door for the likes of Donald Trump: Just when we need them most, the main institutions that have fought for decent jobs are a shadow of
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne comments on the importance of the labour movement in ensuring that economic growth translates into benefits for workers: The findings of a study released this month by the Canadian Centre for Study of Living Standards, an Ottawa-based think-tank, reinforces why there
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau, the Cons, and the Trump Bump
With less than thirty shopping days to go before Christmas, I've been trying to ease myself into the spirit of the holiday season.But let's face it, it's not easy.Not with Donald Trump running wild in the United States.Not with his malignant influence spreading into Canada.Read more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Wall government has Saskatchewan on the road to the same post-truth politics that laid the groundwork for the spread of fictitious “news” and Donald Trump’s election. For further reading…– Dan Tynan, Craig Silverman and Terrence McCoy are among those who have reported on the development of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Monstrous Thanksgiving
WhoWhatWhyDonald Trump is spending the Thanksgiving holiday at his Mar-a-Lago castle, no doubt surrounded by his court of bigots and other deplorables.And he's urging his people to unite and support him so he can make America great again.But they would be crazy to do that, because they have nothing to
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Just How did Trump whip Clinton? Here’s a big part of the answer
Here’s the teaser: For those who can’t understand how Hillary Clinton could win the popular vote by at least 2 million yet lose handily in the electoral college, perhaps this provides some clarity. If the campaign’s overarching sentiment was fear and anger, the deciding factor at the end was data
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Just How did Trump whip Clinton? Here’s a big part of the answer
Here’s the teaser: For those who can’t understand how Hillary Clinton could win the popular vote by at least 2 million yet lose handily in the electoral college, perhaps this provides some clarity. If the campaign’s overarching sentiment was fear and anger, the deciding factor at the end was data
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Desperate Need To Be Loved
Donald Trump spent every day of his long campaign for the presidency demonizing Hillary Clinton and calling her a criminal.He vowed that one of his first acts if he was elected would be to appoint a special prosecutor to go after her and jail her.While his rabid supporters chanted "lock
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Kakistocracy
Like so many people all over the world, I sometimes can't decide what to call Donald Trump.Is he just a vulgar hustler who conned a nation into believing he was fit to be president? Or is he a deranged demagogue, or a budding fascist, or a would be dictator?Or all
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Bad news for Canada as Donald Trump announces withdrawal from TPP deal on day one of presidency
In an infomercial-style video released Monday, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that he’ll withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement as soon as he assumes office in January. Trump’s “America First” approach means Canada is unlikely to benefit from the inevitable renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Horror of Trump and the Amazing Rise of the Resistance
I must say I really enjoyed what happened to Mike Pence, the sinister man from GLAD or MAGA, when went to the theatre the other night to take in a performance of the Broadway musical Hamilton.And got a stirring message from the cast, urging him to restrain his bigot instincts and respect the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Dubner discusses the importance of social trust in supporting a functional economy and society: (S)ocial trust is … HALPERN: Social trust is an extraordinarily interesting variable and it doesn’t get anywhere near the attention it deserves. But the basic idea is
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 46: Bird debate splits Canada! Or maybe not.
The fallout from the Nov. 8 U.S. election continued this week. And just like nuclear fallout, the devastation will be long term. President-elect Donald Trump (my fingers had a hard time typing that; they almost refused) announced that Steven Bannon would be his senior advisor. Bannon is a rabid right-winger
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Scary Military Junta
In one of my last posts I suggested that Donald Trump's decision to appoint the retired general Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser was a really bad idea.For Flynn is as deranged as Trump and right out of Dr Strangelove. And instead of helping to restrain him might
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The puzzling legacy of Calgary mayor Rod Sykes: not even one pathetic cul-de-sac has been named after him!
PHOTOS: Former Calgary mayor Rod Sykes sometime during his heyday between 1969 and 1977 (Glenbow Museum photo). Below: The cover of Thin Power, How Former Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes Stamped His Brand on the City … And Scorched Some Sacred Cows, and its author, retired Alberta journalist Andy Marshall. Rod
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Piketty discusses our choice between developing models of global trade which actually produce positive results for people, or fueling the fire of Trump-style demogoguery: The main lesson for Europe and the world is clear: as a matter of urgency, globalization must be
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Trump University and the Dawn of the Donald
Once upon a time Donald claimed that his Trump University could make anyone as rich as he was, and that all could learn from the Master.Until after only five years it collapsed under an avalanche of lawsuits, from those who claimed it was just a shabby scam and that Donald Trump was a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Strangelove Nightmare
For a moment yesterday I thought we were saved.When news leaked out that Donald Trump might make Mitt Romney his Secretary of State instead of the sleazy Rudy Giuliani. Or the mad bomber John Bolton. John Bolton, a top candidate to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state, is publicly calling
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