A few notes from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign over the past few days… – Cam Broten’s supporters have been highlighting his statement of values, with his focus on long-term thinking offering a particularly noteworthy development if put into practice (while also setting up a noteworthy test for Broten on
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A BCer in Toronto: Liberals mustn’t have any sacred cows, dairy or otherwise
I confess to knowing practically nothing about supply management. I know that people that support it say it’s necessary to keep Canadian farmers competitive and alive, and those that oppose it say it forces Canadians to massively overpay for milk, cheese and other products compared to people in other countries.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how we know better in our personal lives than to think money is everything – and how we should expect public policy to follow the same principle. For further reading, see my earlier posts on the subject. And the best-developed Canadian means of measuring is the Canadian Index
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: A Healthy Society – Chapter 2 Discussion
Chapter 2 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society discusses the place of politics as “medicine on a larger scale”. Meili looks for lessons in our political discussion based on how medical knowledge has advanced in the past few decades, and points out a new definition of success that looks to
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