Rick Mercer Denounces Tory MP Brad Butt’s Lies
As usual, Rick Mercer offers an unsparing assessment of his target, in this instance Tory MP Brad Butt and his outright lie about being a witness to voter fraud. Thanks…
2014
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The American Prospect writes about Thomas Piketty’s work on inequality – and how we’re just scratching the surface of the policy implications of…
When Liberal infighting is out.
Campaign co-chair for the federal Liberals in Ontario David McNaughton has made his first blunder. When somebody gives you their authority to do a job, you have to do it…
Cowichan Valley NDP hosts lecture on Left in BC
Cowichan Valley NDP hosts lecture on Left in BCSocial Event and Lecture with Historian Gordon Hak VIU Professor Gordon Hak The Cowichan Valley NDP invites you to a special afternoon…
Corporate Cash Stash Surpasses National Debt
Today’s National Balance Sheet Accounts indicate that the amount of cash held by private non-financial corporations in Canada soared from $591 billion in the third quarter of 2013 to $626…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, March 14, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 14, 2014: Thousands sue nuclear giants over Japan Fukushima disaster Alleged bullying by teacher prompts BC…
The Worst In History?
When historians eventually get around to rendering judgement on the Harper Government, they will point to many things. They will certainly cite the gutting of Statistics Canada. Jeffrey Simpson writes:…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: In and out of crisis with Sam Gindin
Today’s podcast is a feature interview with fellow political economist Sam Gindin. I interrogate Sam about the political economy of the present: the exit from the 2007 crisis, the role…
Trying to Be A Normal Mom – Crafting My Caregiver Exit Strategy
When Nicholas was very young, I decided that my task was to help him live his life in a way that approximated ‘normal’. For us, that meant finding ways for…
Funny Brett Lamb cartoon
I’ve never been charged criminally with making death threats, or found guilty of serial ethical lapses, but I thought this cartoon by my long-time web friend Brett Lamb was funny.…
Stephen Harper and the War on Medicare Continued
As you probably know, there is nothing I fear more than what Stephen Harper is planning to do to our precious medicare system.Because he has always hated it, it represents…
Pierre Poilievre and the Invisible Video
Uh oh. I see Pierre Poilievre's war on the Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand has suffered another humiliating setback.And his career is deflating faster than even I had predicted.Yesterday, his…
The Ukrainian Far Right: Gruending On Ukraine
Dennis Gruending has a piece on some of the propaganda being employed by both sides in the standoff over Ukraine. I found this bit particularly interesting: … the Russians suspect,…
Nalcor Oversight #nlpoli
The provincial government will be establishing a committee of senior public servants to co-ordinate information on Muskrat Falls for cabinet. VOCM faithfully reported Premier Tom Marshall’s comments to reporters outside…
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Don’t Tolerate Ignorance About the Minimum Wage
Now, stop tolerating ignorance! And smile, TGIF. Hello. It’s Friday. For many people it’s TGIF. But for many people who aren’t even teenagers, the work week isn’t ending today. We…
Tory caucus rebellion threatens Alberta premier? Nobody here but us chickens!
Alberta Premier Alison Redford departs Government House in Edmonton at 11:32 yesterday morning, all alone. No one else came out and the door quietly closed behind her. Then her security…
Vancouver DTES Local Area Plan City Council Debates- Part One: Developers
…One topic that dominated the DTES LAP discussions last night was the 60/40 (Social/ market rate housing split) and the definition of affordable housing … All the usual suspects always…
Anti-Redford coup fails to materialize at PC MLA meeting
TweetA rumoured coup d’etat within Alberta’s Progressive Conservative caucus failed to materialize yesterday as government MLAs gathered at Government House to discuss Premier Alison Redford‘s future. Cancelling all public appearances…
Privilege and pseudo-science
When people ask me why I did graduate school in economics, I sometimes half-jokingly tell them that it was a case of going into the lion’s den to see what…