This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out how inequality is bad for everybody – including those at the top who are fighting to exacerbate it:Say the word “inequality,” and many people automatically assume you’re talking abou…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Flaherty Channels Ford
…goes looking for the gravy train in Ottawa, seeking waste, fraud, and abuse. But here in T.O. we know how that worked out. The only gravy turned out to be on Rob Ford’s tie. Watch the same thing play out on a national sc…
Continue readingLeDaro: Jim Flaherty: Cost cutting consultants
The Harper government is firm that they will save a lot of money by hiring the consulting firm of Deloitte Inc. at the cost of $90,000 a day – a total cost of $19.8 million. Now Jim Flaherty, the Minister of Finance, has chimed in and says th…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Tories $20 Million Auditors Are Serial Fraudsters
If you’re the government and you want to find “gravy” – to pick a random metaphor – that you can eliminate in the provision of services in order to reduce the deficit, what do you do? Why, you hire an auditor of course. An auditor has specially traine…
Continue readingHarpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, put this one under the file of if this weren’t so sad and dire for Canadians, it might actually be rip roaringly hilarious. Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo are actually going to pay the firm, Deloitte, 19.8 million smackers or 90,000$ per day until about March 31 to help . . . → Read More: Harpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Rob Ford Put an End to Blissful Ignorance?
On February 15, 1983, the New York Times ran a headline: Reagan Misstatements Getting Less Attention.Ronald Reagan was not only the first American President to bring the Religious Right into his administration, but he also launched an era of …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erin catches a typically-partisan response from the Cons to the prospect that a new U.S. stimulus package might contain Buy American provisions once again:What strikes me is that corporate Canada and Conservatives ar…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 5: The Exploitation of Religion
“… the seemingly squeaky clean but morally corrupt Ralph Reed.” Sarah Posner (1)In the movie Casino Jack, based on the life of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, we are introduced to some of the players in the massive corruption scandal, that took do…
Continue readingImpolitical: Today in Flaherty
He will speak: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is expected to comment on the economy this morning, following the release of the latest data from Statistics Canada. […] Economists widely expect that the Canadian economy stalled in the second quarter and…
Continue readingImpolitical: Canada and its economic wiggle room
A TD report is not optimistic about our room to maneuver should the U.S. go into another recession: “Policy makers in Canada have less wiggle room on the fiscal and monetary fronts and households face larger debt burdens,” Toronto-Dominion Bank dep…
Continue readingImpolitical: Today in Finance Committee
So the big political news out of the Finance Committee meeting today where Jim Flaherty and Mark Carney provided updates on the state of economic affairs for Canada amidst this sea of difficulties seems to have been this: On stimulus“That’s exactly…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
– Lawrence Martin slams the proliferation of gratuitous surveillance on citizens, with a particular focus on the Cons’ “lawful access” legislation:
In Canada, the impact, while far less egregious, has …
Impolitical: Friday’s Finance Committee meeting
So there’s a bit of a controversy over this Friday Finance Committee meeting to get an update on the Canadian economy. A motion was brought to have the committee hear from independent economists in addition to hearing from Jim Flaherty and Mark Carney….
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tom Mills challenges the Cons to show any job creation whatsoever as a result of their non-stop corporate tax slashing:The thing is, if corporate tax cuts really do create jobs, Flaherty should be able to dem…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On warning signs
Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won’t let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that’s done so much to cause it.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Harper-Ford BBQ Footage
In case you’re interested, here’s the YouTube video featuring “Canada’s best known fishing buddies” that was described by Tim Harper in the Toronto Star the other day. Better hurry though, as a previous uploads have been yanked, apparently at the … Continue reading →
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Canada Survive Another Recession?
News on the economic front is that we could be heading toward another financial crisis.Canada survived the last one, because of measures put in place by previous governments. Measures that would not have been there, if Harper had had his way when Leade…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Stephen Harper describes his party’s view of the type of environment needed for any industry to plan for the future and create jobs:“Protecting and creating jobs and ensuring economic growth in all regions remains our Government’s number one priority…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Jim Flaherty and the Tea Party Abandon the Arts
It was once suggested to Winston Churchill that he cut funding to the arts to pay for Britain’s war, to which he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?”A nation’s arts and culture are as important to their identity as their historic landmarks.Y…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Is An Asshole
Hey, sometimes you want to be all intellectual and stuff; analyze underlying trend and put it in its proper context to provoke scholarly debate. But some shit just deserves to be called by its regular name.This guy was all for spending $1 billion on a …
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