Meryam Haddad The second reply I received today was from Ms. Meryam Haddad. Ms. Haddad’s response was very different from her opponent: “I personally do not believe in themonarchy and think that weshould eventually get rid of it.“ No public statements were found. Loyally Yours,A Kisaragi Colour
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ronan Burtenshaw discusses the British public’s strong support for a New Deal featuring higher wages and more fair tax contributions by the rich as the UK plans for a recovery from the coronavirus. But Naomi Klein calls out how COVID-19 is instead
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your Saturday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the many complexities surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, including how much we have left to figure out before being able to make any concrete plans. – Leonardo Trasande and Akhgar Ghassabian discuss how chemicals in our homes may be
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Patricia Cohen discusses how the COVID-19 lockdown has exposed the precarious financial position of most Americans – but in the process highlighted that merely returning to the previous debt-laden stagnation is far from sufficient. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that there’s no getting around
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On antisocialism
Plenty of attention is rightly getting paid to the unabashed evil that is the Republicans’ insistence on holding previously-scheduled elections at a time when it was certain to make. But how much worse is it then for a politician to actually treat the spread of COVID-19 as an excuse to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Mariana Mazzucato comments on the triple crisis facing our current economic system, and the importance of addressing health, environmental and economic disasters alike. – Shannon Daub writes that it’s entirely counterproductive to withhold coronavirus relief from charities and non-profits until their resources have
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Tooze writes that the coronavirus pandemic has offered a reminder that the economy (particularly defined in terms of shareholders’ interests) can’t be given priority over human survival and well-being. – John Daley discusses three possible options in responding to the coronavirus –
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Polly Toynbee and David Walker write about the brutal social consequences of a decade of austerity in the UK. – Andrew Jackson reviews James Crotty’s Keynes Against Capitalism with a strong emphasis on Keynes’ recognition of the need for a democratically-planned economy. –
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jeff Spross calls out the absurdity of gutting protections for health and safety in the name of “regulatory certainty” – particularly when that really only means businesses know they can get away with as much damage on the public as they can inflict.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carson Hammond and Rob Rousseau each make the case that Canada needs a left movement for change comparable to the wave of U.S. activism propelling Bernie Sanders toward a presidential nomination. – Brigid Delaney argues that we need to stop settling for
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Conservative Leadership Candidates and the Monarchy: Aron Seal
Photo Credit: Aron Seal Hard to believe that it has beenthree years since I last surveyedthe prospective leaders of theConservative Party of Canada. Asin 2017 there is a large number ofcandidates. Also, like 2017, there isa second race later in the year fora different federal party (this timeit is the
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Aronoff offers a reminder that the right’s constant bleating about limiting government spending never applies to the cost of wars of choice. – Laura Glowacki reports on how Doug Ford’s choice to allow rent increases will only make matters worse for Ontario’s
Continue readingDefending the Indefensible Left and Right
People of the left and, one would hope, also many on the right, look on with horror as Republican politicians unconditionally support their degenerate president. Trump once boasted “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” and it appears that
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Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that the most frightening aspect of the U.S. Republicans is the party’s commitment to climate destruction for political gain: My sense is that right-wingers believe, probably correctly, that there’s a sort of halo effect surrounding any form of public action.
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: My Reply to John Boyko
On December 1st the Toronto Star published an opinion piece by John Boyko, an author of seven books on Canadian history and politics. In this opinion piece John lays out his views on abolishing the monarchy (he is for it). I foundmyself angrier than I expected upon reading his take on the issue which required some reflection on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Chris Hedges writes about the damage oligarchs are doing to humanity and the planet. And Dominic Rushe points out how whiny the people who have rigged the economy toward their own concentration of obscene wealth become when they face the slightest hint
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Initiative on Global Markets finds substantial agreement among economists that inequality poses a threat to democracy. And Paul Krugman writes about the concerted efforts of corporate-funded Republicans to undermine the successes of California and other states implementing progressive policies. – Andray Domise
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Taylor Scallon discusses how GDP numbers fail to capture the precarious circumstances facing far too many Canadians. Kerri Breen reports on Ipsos’ polling showing a majority of Canadians seeing the political system as being rigged in favour of a privileged few. But in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Krugman writes about the U.S. Republicans’ new complaint of evil eye economics – though it shouldn’t come as much surprise that people who treat the economy as nothing more than a confidence game would object to anybody pointing out how the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Osita Nwanevu describes the higher-brow forms of bigotry and wilful ignorance being pushed by U.S. Republicans for upper-class audiences. And Kate Aronoff discusses the racial undertones of yet another wave of red-baiting. – Meanwhile, David Climenhaga highlights how Canadian right-wing governments are
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