The news that Jason Kenney’s UCP has approved a resolution demanding privatized health care – coupled with Kenney’s refusal to reject the concept – has been rightly recognized as a dangerous development in Alberta. But it hasn’t received much attention yet in Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign. And there’s significant reason
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday #skvotes Links
Nearly 63,000 voters have applied for mail-in balloting packages, and those who haven’t are being encouraged to go to advance polls over the course of this week. So with many people casting their ballots, let’s take a look at the latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign. – Ashleigh Mattern reports
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On negative contributions
I’ve previously noted how the Saskatchewan Party’s platform diverts money to the people who need it least. But it’s worth taking a closer look to see exactly how little Scott Moe is willing to put into even his supposed priorities when one examines how much of the Sask Party’s plan
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On coverage failures
As noted a couple of days back, let’s take a look at how Saskatchewan’s provincial election is being covered by local media – and how people responsible for holding the government to account are instead going far our of their way to serve it, leaving important stories to be dealt
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The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign. – PressProgress traces nearly half of the Saskatchewan Party’s donations (which are of course the driving force behind its nonstop ad blitz) back to deep-pocketed corporate donors under the lax electoral financing rules they’ve refused to change. – The Canadian Press reports on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On starting points
It’s certainly been interesting to see Saskatchewan’s local corporate media go out of its way to trample coverage of the leadership debate with a poll which was outdated from the moment it was released. And I’ll have plenty more to points out about the coverage of the campaign generally. But
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday #skvotes Links
The latest news and notes from Saskatchewan’s 2020 election campaign. – Nicholas Frew reports that a majority of Saskatchewan’s voters are willing to fund a reduction in class sizes. And PressProgress highlights how Scott Moe is insisting that the public health measures required in every other indoor space be waived
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Gloria Dickie documents how the Arctic region may already be in a death spiral caused by climate change. Katharine Murphy reports on IMF research showing that current policies and plans are woefully inadequate to address the climate crisis. Joseph Winters notes that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skdebate Notes
For those who weren’t able to watch Saskatchewan’s leadership debate last night, it’s well worth a look: Many viewers seem to have been surprised by Ryan Meili’s effectiveness. And he certainly moved past what I’d seen in the NDP’s leadership campaigns in terms of managing the debate environment, making full
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On diverging paths
Tonight’s Saskatchewan leadership debate will include plenty of back-and-forth as to whether we should vote for a better government, or settle for staying the course. And in answering that question, it’s worth taking a look at exactly what the status quo involves. Back when Scott Moe was threatening a spring
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Michael McGrath warns that the second wave of the coronavirus is once again moving much faster than the governments charged with controlling it. – Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro, Catherine Pattillo and Raphael Espinoza discuss the value and importance of public investment as
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On distributive options
Both the Saskatchewan NDP and Saskatchewan Party have released their election platforms. And for all of the electioneering around what might be anticipated outside of those, we can already tell plenty from how each party has framed its flagship promises. Take, for example, how the parallel Crown rebate promises from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On silent threats
The science of COVID-19 (italics in original, underlining added): Are pre-symptomatic carriers more contagious before or after they get symptoms? “People tend to be the most contagious before they develop symptoms, if they’re going to develop symptoms,” CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said. “They call that the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On non-disclosure
Much of the pushback against any discussion of Scott Moe’s patterns of drinking and driving, vehicle accidents and general refusal to own up to anything of the sort boils down to two themes. The first is that somehow, the authority to decide whether to discuss Moe’s harm to others lies
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On irrational forces
As Saskatchewan voters consider our options in this month’s provincial election, Alberta’s UCP could hardly be more clear in offering reminders of the cost of putting reckless right-wingers in charge. And this week, the most prominent development on that front has been the decision to pay $2 million for some
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: No time like the present
Shorter Scott Moe (with an uninformed boost from Murray Mandryk): An election is no time to assess the suitability of candidates for public office. Needless to say, we’ve heard a similar proclamation when it came to policy. And we can only hope Moe’s view of keeping political matters away from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Elizabeth Kolbert examines three of the main scenarios for our climate future – with the option of using existing technology to make a full transition to a clean society in time to limit our climate breakdown remaining on the table for now.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskParty Replaces Candidate
After a SaskParty candidate was revealed to be an anti-science Q-cult fascist, so Moe removed him to reduce embarrassment to the party. The replacement is a home builder association CEO. “The rising cost of housing is more important than solving climate change for most canadians (sic).” Saskatchewan is a world
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consistent standards
It’s certainly for the best that Scott Moe has removed at least one Saskatchewan Party candidate based on the recognition that the people running to govern the province should be held to a standard which precludes pushing easily-discredited conspiracy theories. But we’ll have to wait to see when he follows
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Reviewing Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland, Martin Gelin writes that the U.S. is paying the price for allowing itself to be trapped in a corporate autocracy since the Reagan years – and that it will take a concerted push for systemic change to improve matters
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