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…
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Accidental 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…
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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…
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Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janet Bagnall discusses Canada’s steadily-growing income inequality:In the last 20 years, the income of 80 per cent of Americans has stagnated while that of the richest one per cent has nearly doubled. …
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.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On deep impacts
The news that Larissa Shasko has stepped down as leader of Saskatchewan’s Greens to work on Yens Pedersen’s campaign has already received plenty of attention. But it’s worth noting that based on the ridings involved, Shasko’s move may have more impact …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On inexplicable delays
Yes, the positive media response signals how important the impending debate over the NDP’s Bright Futures Fund proposal figures to be in the lead-up to Saskatchewan’s November election. But the even more significant bit of fallout looks to be part of B…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On bright futures
In this morning’s column, I pointed out how the Wall government’s focus on short-term electioneering and rule-tweaking betrays its insecurity over November’s election. And the Sask Party will have all the more reason for concern in the wake of the NDP’…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On analogous choices
John Gormley strains to try to invent analogies between football and politics to support the Sask Party’s cause. (And I’m half disappointed he didn’t have a couple thousand more words to fill, since I’m sure then we’d have been treated to his substance…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Belabouring the obvious
Speaking of this fall’s Saskatchewan election, let’s note a remarkable feat of punditry by Murray Mandryk in his latest paean to the Sask Party. Of course it’s always the goal of any prognosticator to identify what’s inevitably around the corner so as …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Unequal interest
In my column this week, I pointed out the need to combat poverty and inequality in order to achieve better outcomes in all kinds of areas even if we’re not prepared to deal with them for their own sake. But let’s follow up with a quick look at the choi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On outreach
Yes, there’s plenty to criticize in Murray Mandryk’s continued willingness to serve as a conduit for Sask Party spin. But let’s focus in on the obvious flaws with even the more reasonable part of his latest column:(T)here is another view that we now se…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: What’s good for the goose…
It’s rather surprising to learn that donating money to a political party is considered a “questionable political tactic”. But I look forward to seeing the same standard applied to a single one of the Saskatchewan Party’s thousands of corporate donors.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On political investments
Yes, there’s plenty of reason for snark in response to the news that the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce will be (a) pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into this fall’s provincial election campaign, and (b) pretending not to be doing so on behal…
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This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Wells is pleased to have received some response about how the Cons claim to be saving money. But it’s worth taking a close look at the substance of that response, and particularly highlighting that one of …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Brian Topp’s initial observations on the new sitting of Parliament include this note on the Libs’ interim leader:(A)s a footnote, Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae was also interesting in these exchanges. H…
Continue readingThe Wheatsheaf: Declining service
During the Lorne Calvert era, the NDP and Saskatchewan Party engaged in simplistic debates on the merits of crown corporations. Brad Wall used to stand up, get red in the face with veins popping from his neck as if he was about to blow a gasket and shout about the
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