This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson attacks the myth of expansionary austerity, particularly from a Canadian perspective:(T)here is very rarely any such thing as expansionary austerity, according to IMF staff economists.In a carefu…
Continue readingTag: fraser institute
Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- As quickly as the Fraser Institute churns out corporate propaganda, Sixth Estate responds – this time nicely debunking a report encouraging yet more giveaways to big pharma:(T)here’s a glaring lie by omission in th…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Fraser Institute’s Ethically Challenged Drug Experts Release Another BS Report
The Fraser Institute has released a new report on healthcare, and as usual, it’s a whopper. They claim that we should get rid of price controls because our system provides “no cost advantages.” As usual, this argument is plain baloney. Unusually, their own numbers show the lie this time. Not surprisingly, the summary for the […]
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Fraser Institute Reads Sixth Estate?
That definitely is the leading possibility, as a new report from the Fraser Institute has finally updated the listing of that group’s Editorial Advisory Board to reflect the total number of dead members, which now stands at six. The Fraser Institute, for those who are unaware, is a radical think tank which, among other activities, […]
Continue readingGreenpeace uncloaks phony anti-climate change scientist
Dr. Willie Soon has been the go-to scientist favoured by climate change deniers for years. Used by the Fraser Institute and Koch Industries, Soon has proven invaluable in giving ammunition to the right to ‘prove’ global warming doesn’t exist.
Turns out it’s as we expected – nothing more than a scam. It seems . . . → Read More: Greenpeace uncloaks phony anti-climate change scientist
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your long weekend.- Sixth Estate’s evisceration of the Fraser Institute continues, this time with a response in substance to the claim that private-sector rent-seekers will somehow make prescription drugs more affordable:(T)he r…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Fraser Institute on Poor People’s Health Insurance: “Let Them Eat Cake!”
Yesterday I reported on a new Fraser Institute study by Brett Skinner and Mark Rovere, noting that the existing government drug system does not serve poor people well and claiming that the best way to fix the system is to make it harder for Canada to check whether drugs are safe and harder for poor […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper and Co., big business rules. Period. The concep…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Fraser Institute Tries New Ethical Disclosure Tack in Bid to Promote Private Healthcare, Fails Miserably
The Fraser Institute’s latest propaganda piece is Access Delayed, Access Denied, an attempt to solve the very real problem of delayed access to important new medications in Canada by bogus methods, like more private insurance and less Canadian inspection of new drugs. This is a very silly idea, and I’ll get into that tomorrow, but […]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fraser Institute Editorial Advisory Board Largely Dead
I have noticed this in a previously with other right-wing think tanks, but as the gentleman at The 6th Estate has noted on several occasions, several people on the The Fraser Institute editorial advisory board have long passed…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Shock Doctrined Through Think Tanks
A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, and what I find interesting, is that American Imperialism over the past half century or so, has followed a pattern.One laid ou…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans’ plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare, the differences between Canada and the U.S. are once a…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: On Being Shock Doctrined by the Media
While reading Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, it occurs to me that Canada, like many other nations, had become the science lab for Milton Friedman and the Chicago School.Stephen Harper’s strong connections with the Republican neoconservative movement…
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…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: The Liberals need to reform themselves. I think I know how.
Last month I attended an event hosted by the Conservative Party of Canada’s University of Calgary club that had Preston Manning come in and talk about democracy, coalition building, and his history with his involvement in the conservative movem…
Continue reading