Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I’d think it’s long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a goal worth pursuing. But Dan Gardner points out the role that Parliament …
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Lawrence Martin argues that with an NDP Official Opposition at the same time as the effects of inequality and greed continue to send shockwaves across the globe, there’s no time like the present for Canada …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Marc Lee reminds us that income disparities are only a small part of the picture of an increasingly unequal economy – with wealth inequality looking far worse:These numbers are striking, with 58% of wealth in…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Dan Gardner eviscerates the Cons for their stubborn insistence on mandatory minimum sentences in even the most ridiculous of cases:Imagine a university student living in a rented apartment with her boyfriend, sugge…
Continue readingMeanwhile, Federally, the Shenanigans Continue
Want to learn more about the Auditor General’s investigations into the Harper Government’s military cost overruns? The Harper Government’s former do-nothing ‘integrity’ commissioner’s half-million dollar severance package? The Harper Government’s misma…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Insite Victory and Kevin’s Story
I’ve written about Kevin before. The young heroin addict I found shooting up on the door step of the Yale Town apartment I was renting, while taking a summer course in Vancouver.How I felt like I was looking at somebody dying before my eyes. How h…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 28, 2011
Wednesday’s Day in Review comes a day later than usual. But I’ll plan to stick to the new schedule for future editions, as the anchors which nicely point to interventions from the current day seem to have a habit of disappearing later. The Big IssueOnc…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Tony Clement and the Crime of the New Century
As Tony Clement sits in stony silence, like a petulant child, refusing to admit he was the one who stole the cookie, despite the crumbs on his face; others are having to defend the indefensible.The 50 million dollars that was misappropriated and spent …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Dan Gardner rightly points out that the Cons’ continued efforts to trash our parliamentary institutions now that they have a majority shouldn’t come as any surprise – even if they still demand plenty of outrage:Got t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Ladies and gentlemen, your fully accountable Treasury Board president:Clement, the MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka and a former Ontario cabinet minister in the Mike Harris years, emerged from Conservative caucus…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 26, 2011
Monday’s session in the House of Commons was dominated by the debate over another military extension in Libya. The Big IssueOnce again, the Cons were able to win a vote for perpetual military action with the support of the Libs and Bloc. But it wasn’t …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 11: God, Guns and Gays
Throughout the 1990s, especially the early years, the Canadian Reform Party and the American Republican Party were forging ties, that have proven to be lasting.They share policies, initiatives, staff, and even financing.One name that comes up ofte…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon consumption.- John Cole points to a study comparing economic choices between psychopaths and stock traders – with even more disturbing results than one might expect:According to a new study at the University of St. G…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: A helpful hint
To Tony Clement and the rest of the Cons: Yes, it may be tempting to count on your own government’s refusal to provide meaningful information in response to access requests as cover for shady dealings. But the recipients of your largesse might not be a…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- For those looking to paint foreign investment as a panacea for economic development, Paul Krugman offers up (via Kash Mansori) what should be a chilling correlation between capital imbalances and economic disast…
Continue readingTony Clement: anything for a friend
While the media pretty much ignores the scandals around Peter MacKay’s elite transportation perks, Tony Clement is not so lucky. He’s being ridden hard and put up wet, if not by the media at least by NDP’s Charlie Angus.Yesterday, New Democrat Ethics C…
Continue readingHarpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts
Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, put this one under the file of if this weren’t so sad and dire for Canadians, it might actually be rip roaringly hilarious. Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo are actually going to pay the firm, Deloitte, 19.8 million smackers or 90,000$ per day until about March 31 to help . . . → Read More: Harpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: First We Take New Jersey … Then On-tar-i-o! Tim Hudak’s New Theme Song?
Martin Regg Cohn had an excellent column in the Star on Monday: Hudak’s taking Ontarians for a ride.In it he questions the logistics of the Ontario Conservative’s Changebook Platform. I perused that and it reminded me of another questionable platform…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning question
Sure, it’s been fairly obvious that the Harper Cons have spent their time in office asking the world to think less of Canada. But did anybody suspect them to have done so quite this literally?
Continue readingImpolitical: Juxtaposing
Lawrence Martin’s question today on Tony Clement’s status: What sort of punishment should be handed out to a cabinet minister who, judging by an auditor-general’s report, was found in clear breach of federal policies on accountability? Should he be s…
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