NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair slammed the Harper Conservatives for recklessly cutting services vital to many Canadians’ livelihoods, such as Old Age Security. Liberal Leader Bob Rae called the budget “an exercise in small-mindedness and mean spirited-ness. And ordinary Canadians weighed … Continue reading →
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – If there’s any lesson we should all be able to draw from the past decade in Canadian politics, it’s that anything can happen. But it’s still rather amazing to see Gerald Caplan get hopeful about the NDP’s prospects of forming a social-democratic government:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Yes, there was huge news in Robocon yesterday, with Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand rightly declaring the Cons’ fraudulent vote suppression to be “absolutely outrageous” while sharing the news that reports of wrongdoing have now come in from two-thirds of all of Canada’s
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: A nickle for your thoughts? No more pennies allowed
Finally!!! No more useless pennies. No doubt there will be much hand wringing and finger pointing about today’s federal budget. There always is, especially during times of constraint. Everyone’s laundry list of things to cut is different, while some don’t care whether the budget is balanced at all. For the
Continue readingThe Star’s Tim Harper: Harper bets on big resources and kicks environment to the curb
OTTAWA Stephen Harper, finally freed of the constraints that of the minority years, had no need to deliver anything in his 2012 budget to placate his political opponents. So, unfettered, he delivered big time for big business and carved a path for a resource-based economy shorn of impediments for years
Continue readingwRanter.com: Generation X gets shafted – again
A recent study by PwC Canada of the Canadian banking sector found that Generation X – roughly defined as people born between 1961 and 1981, after the Baby Boom – are being squeezed in the financial industry by Boomers who aren’t retiring and by Boomers’ “Generation Y” offspring, who are entering the workforce
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the philosophical underpinnings of the Wall government’s choice to demolish Saskatchewan’s film industry – and the dangers for the province if we accept them. For further reading…– Bruce Johnstone and Murray Mandryk have already criticized the attack on the film industry as ill-advised purely as a matter of
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: What the federal budget will say, and what it really means…cue Carlin
When Thursday rolls around Canadians will be finding out exactly what kind of government a minority of some 40% chose. We’re being told that the budget will focus on certain or themes. Of course they’ll positioned with nice flowery language, employing plenty of double speak, something politicians do very well. In
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Canadian family finances still under stress: Report
For many families in Canada, income security is an elusive dream, according to a new study released by the Vanier Institute for the Family. The report, The Current State of Canadian Family Finances, shows that income inequality is increasing. Canadian … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Crap Like This
** Old draft from April 12, 2011 that I’m publishing now, untouched, a bit like a time capsule from Election 41** #wtf LPC proposed AG table report if #hoc dissolved. BQ supported LPC. CPC opposed + NDP weirdly supported CPC: http://goo.gl/4eA26 #elxn41 Mr. Jean-Claude D’Amours: Mr. Chairman, my question is
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Need to raise taxes or cut services? Hit boomers…
I was born in 1966, and by some warped definition I am somehow included in the post-war baby boom. The baby boom is said to be the result of servicemen coming home after WWII and making up for lost time with their wives in an era that pre-dated birth control. My father however
Continue readingHellberta: Canada and the fine line between reality and lies
Gone are the days of fairytale stories about Canada’s incredibly stable and safe banking system. These stories are now slowly being replaced by a stark reality: Canadians are carrying too much debt. It is now 2012, and the much promised economic security and stability isn’t here. Sure, many supporters of
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Higher temps, higher gas prices…$1.40+ in Québec City
Ahhh what a nice warm spring, and it finally caught up to the micro-climate that is Québec city, or as the signs here proclaim it…the capital of “la nation”. Oh there’s still snow here, lots of it. But with the mercury rising to somewhere around 17 degrees Celsius today, it won’t
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fact Checking The New Paul Ryan Budget on Energy and Environment
ryan_620x350.jpg Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) has released his budget for fiscal year 2013. To almost no one’s surprise, his outline is filled with too many falsehoods and outright lies to count. After analyzing just one section of his proposal – the section on energy and the environment – more than
Continue readingLeft Over: WTF McCain?
Years ago, I had a certain grudging respect for John McCain…after all, he had fought his way through debilitating torture as a POW, seemed to be a bit of what, in Canada, we used to call a Red Tory, and until the last several years, was probably the least offensive
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Random readings to occupy your time. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor are still digging into Robocon – with a focus on figuring out exactly how “Pierre Poutine” assembled lists of anti-Con voters to target. And Sixth Estate both points out that the count of affected ridings is up to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bank of America Takes Rolling Stone Pounding
Holy crap! Rolling Stone tears limbs from the zombie Bank of America. You probably won’t read a more blistering, or researched condemnation of the 1% “Royalty” that literally has the state paying billions for the crimes of a few men it refuses to send to jail. BoA is one big
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while Sixth Estate provides a timeline of shady election dealings by the Harper Cons. Dr. Dawg asks the media to stay
Continue readingelementalpresent: What do Bruce Springsteen, KONY2012 and Occupy have to do with one another?
This is a guest blog, courtesy of Brian Foster. Now, no shells ripped the evening sky No cities burning down No army stormed the shores for which we’d die No dictators were crowned I awoke on a quiet night; I never heard a sound The marauders raided in the dark
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – On the Robocon front, Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher’s latest good work investigating the Cons’ electoral fraud got Maher expelled from the Manning Centre’s hive-mind-building exercise. And the robocalling firms themselves are being similarly aggressive in trying to shut down any discussion of
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