Tag: Privatization
Accidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: October 5, 2011
After the previous day’s relatively non-partisan and specific focus, October 5 saw a return to broad debate on the economy – thanks to both a day of debate on the Cons’ budget bill and a number of queries in question period.The Big IssueUnder the econo…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Annals of the Klein-tastrophe: 18 years of chaos and conflict in regional planning
Regional planning in Alberta since 1993, pretty much exactly as illustrated. Below: A rare photo of Ralph Klein and Steve West, grabbed from the Internet. “Limits to growth on horizon,” proclaimed the main headline on yesterday’s print edition of…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Redford Tories have good news and bad news for government union’s president
AUPE President Guy Smith with some of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators who gathered at the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon to protest against privatization talk by Premier Alison Redford. Below: Former AUPE President Dan MacLennan talking …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Lost vision: efficient, affordable, customer focused
Gulf Islands bi-weekly newspaper Island Tides promises an eclectic mix of local, regional, national and international topics — serious and light-hearted — to give readers a “relaxed, informed ‘West Coast’ feeling.”
One of the contributors to Is…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Frances Russell comments on how the Cons’ war mentality is leading them to shut down any inconvenient opposition using unprecedented procedural tricks:Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majo…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Erin compares the stimulative effects of Ontario’s election platforms:A multiplier is the amount by which a dollar of budgetary outlay increases Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The federal Department of F…
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Armine Yalnizyan highlights the fact that while the Cons fight for ever more inequality, even business groups are noting the risks of that direction: That (the Conference Board of Canada and the Intern…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the lack of any connection between the Saskatchewan Party’s choice of industries and projects and the state of Saskatchewan’s economy.For further reading…- I’ve dealt with most of the content in the column in previous posts, including the P3…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Next we sell off naming rights for schools
Private business promoters aim to eliminate public enterprises through privatization, contracting out and outsourcing. They promote the myth that delivery of services by private, often multinational, companies gains cost and service efficiencies. …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Alex Himelfarb offers a warning about Canada’s current inequality trap:In a society with just a few winners and many losers, a case can be made that everybody truly loses. When he argued for higher taxes on th…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On public goods
New Brunswick’s PC government is the latest to launch an all-out attack on public pensions. And the usual reasons look to apply, with the official press release hinting at a combination of eagerness to foment resentment against the civil service in ord…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: We have a choice – SFL Issues Campaign
Check out the newest SFL Labour Issues Campaign Booklet on the economy and the environment. (pdf): We have a choice
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Great Shopping Shift
I end each day quietly lamenting how I haven’t yet succeeded in completely reforming the global economy. Certainly, it’s a tall order. I search for economic and environmental sustainability. I explore no-growth, steady-state economics to see how we can transform our society’s deranged obsession with unlimited capitalist growth into a more eco-socialist model. I don’t […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Tuition Increases by Stealth
On Tuesday night, Peterborough City Council approved a plan for a for-profit corporation to own and operate a new student residence at Trent University. I’m concerned that this may signal a new trend at Canadian universities; about a year ago, I blogged about a similar plan at the University of Toronto. I am not opposed […]
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