It's starting to resemble a nightmare in a beer garden, with Doug Ford already looking like one of the worst Premiers Ontario has ever known.He has ended the fight against climate change, even as the province is hit by record temperatures. He has halved the size of Toronto's City Council without any
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne writes that there’s no reason to turn Donald Trump’s giveaway to the rich into an excuse for similarly destructive policies in Canada: If tax policy levers need adjusting, there is a more effective and sophisticated approach that can be taken,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Laxer writes that Doug Ford’s attack on people who stood to be helped by a basic income demonstrates the cruelty of austerian politics. But we shouldn’t take the callousness of right-wing parties as reflecting the preferences of most voters, as the Angus
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board rightly recognizes that attempts to challenge federal carbon pricing on constitutional grounds represent nothing but a politically-motivated waste of money. Ross Belot laments the Trudeau Libs’ decision to respond by watering down already-insufficient plans while making it
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ford’s Valkyrie are in flight.
Cue the Wagnerian music. Ford’s Valkyrie are choosing who lives and dies in Ontario. While Ford makes war on his old colleagues in Toronto city hall, his cabinet Valkyrie are slashing and burning liberal attempts at humanity. Both Christine Elliott as health minister and Lisa MacLeod as social services minister
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey points out the massive amounts of money being directed toward stock buybacks in the U.S., with the predictable effect of further enriching the people who already have the most. And Andrew Jackson’s review of Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Dougie doesn’t do distress.
At the end of April this year, a truck was driven down Yonge Street in north Toronto on a quest to murder. The driver succeeded in killing 10 people and injuring 14. Mayor John Tory was there on the scene soonest, Premier Kathleen Wynne came. NDP leader Andrea Horwath came.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Peter Gowan discusses UK Labour’s push for greater social control over economic development. And Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Ryan-Collins and Simon Sharpe set out a useful framework to evaluate policies which are intended to shape markets rather than merely attempting to fix
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Con War on the Poor
I knew it wouldn't take long for Doug Ford to start breaking his promises. Just as long as it took for that Con clown to realize that thanks to scrapping the provinces cap and trade program, he had no money to pay for them.Or understand that running a small label factory isn't
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Robert Reich examines how a concerted attack on organized labour has pushed the vast majority of American workers into living paycheque-to-paycheque (or worse) while income and wealth have become increasingly concentrated at the top end of the spectrum: Almost 80% of Americans say
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ford-style mathematics and The Kingfish.
Even health minister Christine Elliott is going along with the mathematics used by the new Ontario premier. Once you accept that two and two add up to zero, you are one of the true believers. The only problem is that when we are so obviously in need of improving mental
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Surely it’s time for us in the reality based community to act on our convictions as decisively as conservatives do
Surely it’s time for the reality based community – that’s us, my progressive friends – to start making some new democratic realities! In 2015, as you will recall, many of us overcame our reservations and voted for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals on the basis of his firm, clear, unequivocal promise to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why All Decent Canadians Should Help Bring Down Doug Ford
I suppose we should be grateful that Doug Ford looks like what he is, a caricature of a Premier. A man so dumb and bestial it's hard to believe that he is the leader of Canada's most powerful province. And of course nobody should be surprised that he would act like a
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Sound Familiar?
The most important take away from Doug Ford’s decision to downsize Toronto’s city council is what it says about Mr. Ford. Adam Radwanski writes: With Friday’s announcement that he intends to dramatically change some of the province’s municipal elections already under way and outright cancel others, Mr. Ford demonstrated that
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Ford Follies fumble forward.
To be truthful, I had a hard time controlling my laughter reading the revelations on premier Doug Ford’s plans for Toronto and the municipal elections in Ontario. I am now convinced that Dougie is dumber than former Ontario premier Mike Harris. It was Harris who amalgamated Metro Toronto and left
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Kheiriddin: Doug Ford’s Attack On Toronto Is About Defeating The Left
Conservative political pundit and talk show host Tasha Kheiriddin stated in a CBC social media live chat this evening, that she believes the move by Premier Doug Ford to reduce Toronto City Council and interference in several municipal elections has less to do with saving money and fixing government,
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Doug Ford’s Plan To Fix Government – Kill Democracy
Doug Ford stood in front of cameras today, and used language I thought I would never see in Canada. Ford suggested that less democratic representation is needed to fix regional and municipal governments and save tax payers money. The problem with politicians – Ford stated – was that the more
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Doug is doubling down.
Is it fun yet watching our new Ontario premier doubling down with our money? Doug Ford has given the back of his hand to all the efforts in the recent years to protect our environment. He wants to take us back to what was the middle ages of sex education.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Patching the health care problems.
With former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins helping the federal government and Doug Ford tearing into the make-do solutions in Ontario, we might be in more trouble in adding pharmacare to health care than we thought possible. We already know that Doug Ford’s argument for a patchwork solution is unworkable
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Episode 16: Derek Fildebrandt introduces the Derek Fildebrandt Party
In this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman discuss whether Derek Fildebrandt‘s Freedom Conservative Party will be relevant in the next election, Rachel Notley‘s role at the recent Council of the Federation meeting in New Brunswick, the decision by Greyhound to withdraw from western Canada, and Edmonton-Mill Woods MP Amarjeet Sohi‘s
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