This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Stevens discusses the basic problem behind the Cons’ insistence on cutting back actual help to people while wasting billions on prisons and fighter jets: (I)f the government did have a weakness (which, as noted, it does not concede), it might be
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Accidental Deliberations: On distorted outcomes
Having apparently decided that two levels of government and the health systems under their control (along with multiple propaganda tanks funded by who-knows-how-much-money contributed by we’re-probably-not-even-allowed-to-ask) make for an insufficient number of mouthpieces for health-care privatization, Murray Mandryk continues to take on the role for himself. But let’s see what’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Assorted content for your evening reading. – While I’m less than convinced about his desire to break down party loyalties, David Thompson highlights the need for progressives to fight back against decades of corporatist dominance in both political messaging and policy development: To win over the long run, progressives will
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the need to make sure that any lobbying legislation in Saskatchewan doesn’t merely create new ways for an already-insular government to peddle access and shut out dissent. For further reading, Murray Mandryk has discussed the issue as well in a couple of recent columns. And I’ve posted before
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – pogge rightly questions the Cons’ continued efforts to have decisions made by ministerial fiat rather than through public debate. – Glen McGregor eviscerates Brian Lilley’s thoroughly inaccurate attack on Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand. – Murray Mandryk suggests that Saskatchewan’s New Democratic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On diverging tracks
The next time we hear as received media wisdom that it’s politically toxic to abandon a huge share of Saskatchewan’s resource wealth to the corporate sector will be the first. And I’ve yet to hear anybody make the case that devolving provincial resourc…
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…
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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…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On inexplicable delays
Yes, the positive media response signals how important the impending debate over the NDP’s Bright Futures Fund proposal figures to be in the lead-up to Saskatchewan’s November election. But the even more significant bit of fallout looks to be part of B…
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Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s actions speak far louder than the pundits’ words as to whether or not there’s a real chance for change in the November election.
For further reading:
– James Wood has nicely covered the Sask Party’s anti-whistleb…
Accidental Deliberations: On gullibility
I’m pretty sure I’ve read columns and articles purporting to be written by Murray Mandryk over a period of several years. But I’m having trouble making sense of that recollection after he’s gone out of his way to demonstrate that he was born yesterday….
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Belabouring the obvious
Speaking of this fall’s Saskatchewan election, let’s note a remarkable feat of punditry by Murray Mandryk in his latest paean to the Sask Party. Of course it’s always the goal of any prognosticator to identify what’s inevitably around the corner so as …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On outreach
Yes, there’s plenty to criticize in Murray Mandryk’s continued willingness to serve as a conduit for Sask Party spin. But let’s focus in on the obvious flaws with even the more reasonable part of his latest column:(T)here is another view that we now se…
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This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Christopher Michael points out the real problem underlying the News of the World’s scandalous demise:The Sun is either clairvoyant at predicting the results of British elections, or instrumental in determining t…
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It’s rather surprising to learn that donating money to a political party is considered a “questionable political tactic”. But I look forward to seeing the same standard applied to a single one of the Saskatchewan Party’s thousands of corporate donors.
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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…
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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…
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