During the current provincial election you are going to hear a lot about natural resources and the need to spend the money that comes from it on all sorts of things. The province’s New Democrats wasted no time in bitching that oil money isn’t bein…
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Accidental Deliberations: New column day
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.
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– James Wood has nicely covered the Sask Party’s anti-whistleb…
Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.
– Just as in this year’s federal election, the NDP will need to look to move voting intentions once the campaign is underway. But also just like in the federal election, there’s reason to like the party’s cha…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Pop quiz
Yes, the Cons’ spinners are doing their damndest to try to save Tony Clement’s political hide. But since they don’t seem to have noticed that their explanation raises more questions than it answers, let’s test the theory:
Explain why a cabinet ministe…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.
– The NDP follows up on the Tony Clement G8 scandal by pointing out the connection between his pork-barrelling and the 2008 federal election (which, let’s not forget, was called at the Cons’ behest):
The NDP is accus…
Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.
– Naomi Klein points out in the wake of London’s riots that there’s one kind of socially destructive looting that’s been rewarded rather than punished:
They are just about lawless kids taking advantage of a sit…
Accidental Deliberations: The journalism continues
Tim Naumetz is at it again:
The administrator for a township in Treasury Board President Tony Clement’s constituency that received $455,350 for projects under the controversial $50-million G8 legacy fund says the township sent all its funding applica…
Accidental Deliberations: So *that’s* what journalism looks like
While far too many media outlets have gone out of their way to give Tony Clement and the Cons a pass on this week’s thoroughly damning revelations about their G8 pork-barrelling and cover-up, Tim Naumetz and the Hill Times actually saw an opportunity t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A cause for grave concern #nlpoli
The Office of the Auditor General is an independent and reliable source of the objective, fact-based information that the House of Assembly needs to fulfill one of its most important roles: holding the provincial government accountable for its stewards…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that to end your Tuesday.
– The Ottawa Citizen tears a strip off the Cons’ G8 patronage and cover-up:
The more details emerge about the way the government funnelled money into the Muskoka region under the convenient category of “G8 legacy inf…
Accidental Deliberations: On official distortions
Charlie Angus is right to note that one of the more serious aspects of Tony Clement’s G8 pork-barrel coverup may be the prospect that senior bureaucrats gave false information to the Auditor General at the Cons’ behest. But it’s also worth noting the p…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Out of scope
Following up on this morning’s post, there’s actually another notable bit of misdirection involved in Tony Clement’s G8 pork-barrelling which helps to explain why the Auditor General was led astray in reporting on the Cons’ spending.
Here’s some of t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Worshipping at the Trough
Patronage politics of the worst old-fashioned sort is alive and well in Newfoundland and Labrador. VOCM posted a story online within the past 24 hours (hopefully it won’t be disappeared too soon) that makes it pretty clear: A cabinet minister is…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Floyd Norris’ column on the gap between stagnant wages and soaring corporate profits. But let’s add Digby’s take as to what we can expect if the corporate sector gets its way:”I’ve never seen labor markets t…
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 readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Paternalism in Pictures
People are talking about fire trucks, paving and other forms of patronage doled out by the provincial Conservatives for Election 2011. The always acidic labradore has it in pictures, over time. – srbp –
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June was a bleak month on the world democracy stage. Saudi Arabia cracked down on women protesting for the right to drive, while relatively more progressive* Libya showered its female citizens with machine guns and shooting lessons. Syria remains an o…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Adam Radwanski points out how Stephen Harper’s continuing Senate embarrassment figures to play into the NDP’s hands:If Mr. Harper was looking to signal once and for all that he’s abandoned his populi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Brian Topp’s initial observations on the new sitting of Parliament include this note on the Libs’ interim leader:(A)s a footnote, Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae was also interesting in these exchanges. H…
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: EnoughHarper – What Else is He Hiding?
What else is the Government of Canada The Harper GovernmentTM and its scandal–a–day operations hiding? {Video by EnoughHarper} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
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