This and that for your Thursday reading.- Brian Topp highlights the fact that any shared sacrifice to address the Cons’ carefully-fabricated federal deficit needs to include those who have the most to spare:Instead of increasing revenues by cutting hig…
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Accidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 27, 2011
Tuesday in Parliament saw another day taken up largely with discussion of the Cons’ omnibus dumb-on-crime bill. But the tables were turned on them repeatedly, as several efforts by the NDP to reach unanimous agreement on the parts of the bill which are…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Public poll on the state of democracy: please respond – your views and your voice matter!
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Ladies and gentlemen, your fully accountable Treasury Board president:Clement, the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka and a former Ontario cabinet minister in the Mike Harris years, emerged from Conservative caucus…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 26, 2011
Monday’s session in the House of Commons was dominated by the debate over another military extension in Libya. The Big IssueOnce again, the Cons were able to win a vote for perpetual military action with the support of the Libs and Bloc. But it wasn’t …
Continue readingHellberta: My solution to the Edmonton arena debate | #yegarena
Ugh, this arena debate just isn’t going away. Now it appears the city wants to preemptively buy the land for 25million (on top of the arena’s tag price, and infrastructure costs). Some of the ignorant comments in the live chat such as “Like Nike, Just Do It!” shows the severely
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon consumption.- John Cole points to a study comparing economic choices between psychopaths and stock traders – with even more disturbing results than one might expect:According to a new study at the University of St. G…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Murray Dobbin points out the utter failure of an economic system built on suppressing wages for the general populace in the name of boosting stock values and profits for a few at the top:Flaherty insisted before…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dreaming of Recession
Well, here’s something rather unusual… Appearing earlier today on BBC, Alessio Rastani, an independent stock trader, confessed to a stunned interviewer that, like most of his colleagues on Wall Street (or in the City of London), they “don’t really care … Continue reading →
Continue readingLetter to Toronto City Councillor, Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32)
Dear Councillor McMahon,I am a resident of Ward 32, and am writing to express my concerns regarding the service-cutting fiscal plan proposed by Mayor Rob Ford. As I am sure you are aware, the Mayor claimed during his campaign that Toronto had a “spendi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 23, 2011
Friday’s session in the House of Commons saw a few themes discussed which figure to be hot topics of discussion for the next little while – with the continued focus on the Cons’ anti-refugee bill partially giving way to economic and foreign-policy issu…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Ontario Election: Economic Realities
Another fascinating TVO discussion about the Ontario election, this time pivoting off some disparaging comments made several weeks ago by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge in regards to political leadership with respect to prospects for the province’s economy… … Continue reading →
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Michele Bachmann Envisions a World Without Food Industry Safety Standards
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Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann believes that the government needs to stay out of the business of protecting the foods we eat. At a campaign stop this…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- David Olive weighs in on the disastrous results of the all-too-prevalent obsession with austerity when economic conditions are still fragile around the globe:From London to Berlin, and Ottawa to Washington, the w…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Good vid that demontrates the powers of robust stats…
I particularly like the last paragraph on the BBC 4 site:
“…without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is….
Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- For those looking to paint foreign investment as a panacea for economic development, Paul Krugman offers up (via Kash Mansori) what should be a chilling correlation between capital imbalances and economic disast…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 22, 2011
Thursday was another fairly short day of debate in the House of Commons due to the visit by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. But that doesn’t mean there was any lack of perfectly telling content as MPs continued to debate the Cons’ omnibus crime bill.T…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Adopt a “Job Creator”
America’s bonus dependent job creators are currently suffering marginal percentage losses against staggering aggregate wealth.
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Continue readingWobbly beliefs – right and left
As I sit listening to one of the few elected Liberals discuss human rights, immigration and refugee policy, I realize that the left/right discussion has passed. While I am an economic liberal (note the small "l"), I find myself leaning the othe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day.- David Olive reassures us that we’re not in a depression, but points out plenty of other reasons for concern with Canada’s economy:Jim Flaherty, the federal finance minister, tried to slap down Peggy Nash, the NDP fina…
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