This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Alex Himelfarb offers a warning about Canada’s current inequality trap:In a society with just a few winners and many losers, a case can be made that everybody truly loses. When he argued for higher taxes on th…
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- No, we shouldn’t be surprised that Clark-era PCs disagree with the Harper Cons given that their leader long since jumped ship as well. But Peter Blaikie’s take on the Cons’ dumb-on-crime policies is still worth…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- In case anybody held out hope that the Harper Cons might follow up on their residential school apology with some concrete action to change First Nations relations for the better, here’s the predictable result: a…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On credibility gaps
Since I haven’t yet seen this story linked to the spin which seems to have made it necessary, let’s put two and two together.The professionals responsible for maintaining the solvency of the Canada Pension Plan have made it clear that the CPP is capabl…
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