Assorted content to start your week.- Romeo Saganash comments on the need to recognize and act on our common social bonds:Whether you live on reserve, in the remote north, or in the heart of a city, there is much healing — much teaching and learning -…
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Erin compares the numbers behind the NDP and Sask Party platforms, with the one major difference being the windfall potash profits the Wall government wants to keep out of public hands.- Bruce Johnstone highlight…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning questions
Has any government, anywhere, ever done as little in a four-year term as the Saskatchewan Party will admit to planning in its platform?Does anybody expect the Saskatchewan Party to break the mould?And if not, what’s been left out of the platform that’s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Frances Woolley points out just how much more efficient public-sector health services are compared to private-sector alternatives by contrasting the cost of surgery on people with the far higher rates charged to priv…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
It’s bad enough having a federal government whose reaction to social problems is to tell the provinces, “No, you go first in dealing with them. I insist.” But it’s much worse having a provincial government whose response is to refuse to do anything mor…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On boomerang effects
Accusing one’s opponents of having a hidden agenda has become a matter of standard-issue political strategy. But accusing one’s opponents of having a hidden agenda identical to one’s own takes rather more creativity. And chutzpah. And contortionism.So …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford rightly says that it’s long past time for the Occupy movement to refocus our economy in the wake of a free-market-induced crash and stagnation:In the 1930s, the last time capitalism failed so dest…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government – but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren’t looking for finger-pointing. They’re not looking to shi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On diverging tracks
The next time we hear as received media wisdom that it’s politically toxic to abandon a huge share of Saskatchewan’s resource wealth to the corporate sector will be the first. And I’ve yet to hear anybody make the case that devolving provincial resourc…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan’s election campaign pits a party pushing instant gratification against one basing its policies on an appeal to voters’ altruism.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saskatchewan Election Roundup
The NDP unveiled its health-care platform today, and learned in short order that the minister currently responsible for our province’s health isn’t so strong in the accuracy department. [Update: Or the admitting one’s own gross error department.] The S…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On deposits
I posted yesterday about the Sask Party’s opening offering in this fall’s election campaign. But it’s worth pointing out the NDP’s first policy event as well, as Dwain Lingenfelter unveiled more details about the party’s proposal for a Bright Futures F…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saskatchewan Election Links
For those who can’t get enough coverage of Saskatchewan’s provincial election, here’s a quick set of links to keep an eye on (to be filled out and updated as the campaign progresses).CBC has set up a dedicated election page, while Leftdog has joined Jo…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Trickle-up politics
Saskatchewan’s election campaign is officially underway, and so too is the Sask Party’s campaign to transfer wealth upward as quickly as they can get away with. Just look at the numbers behind their supposed help for students:Two programs are proposed….
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it’s no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it clear they’ll treat any strike or lockout as both illegitimate and entirely the f…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading.- Bruce Johnstone comments on the real source of Saskatchewan’s relative economic success over the past few years – and not surprisingly, it has nothing at all to do with the Sask Party government that’s s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Trish Hennessy points out that there’s a debt crisis facing many Canadians that will only be exacerbated by public-sector slashing:1.57 TrillionCanadians’ household debt in the second quarter of 2011, reach…
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: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out how inequality is bad for everybody – including those at the top who are fighting to exacerbate it:Say the word “inequality,” and many people automatically assume you’re talking abou…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan’s election campaign is shaping up as a choice between personality and policy.And for the latest noteworthy policy proposal from the NDP, see yesterday’s community hospital announcement.
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