Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, August 17, 2015
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August 2015
On campaign divisions
If it wasn’t obvious already, the last decade of resource politics in Canada should offer us a reminder that the immediate development of resources without meaningful consideration of externalities and…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Martha Friendly examines what a “national child care program” actually means. And Jim Stanford makes a compelling economic case as to why Canada…
140Law – Current Leading Legal Headlines
Here are the current leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Class action lawsuit alleges abuse at Ontario schools for deaf How Netflix subscribers may be unwitting tax evaders…
Stephen Harper Has Offered the Opposite of Good Economic Management
Because of his reliance on oil, Stephen Harper has been a very poor manager of Canada’s economy. Exchange rate volatility, job losses and other factors point to this conclusion.
Apocalypse Now, And The Shape Of Things To Come
I decided to take a break from the political landscape today to look at our physical one. Regrettably, although the title of this post comes from two films, what is…
Their World Is Changing
Harper Conservatives used to suffer from galloping certitude. They believed that they were paragons of virtue. Michael Harris writes: Conservatives like to think they occupy the moral high-ground. There is…
It’s OK, Envy Your Neighbour
Despite what a really old book may imply, envy can be OK. In english the word envy seems to mean one thing but in other languages envy has multiple meanings…
The Haida Raven ring on my finger
Soon to be replaced by another one. (Getting marriage licence this morning.)
Another NDP with inflated hopes in Toronto.
There is a probably apocryphal story doing the rounds about the newly appointed New Democrat candidate in Toronto’s Eglinton-Lawrence constituency. This guy is a former member of the legislature and…
Canada Embraces Its Watergate Moment And The People Will Decide, Maybe.
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
Canada Embraces Its Watergate Moment And The People Will Decide, Maybe.
We could call the latest scandal in Canadian politics Duffygate, our version of the Watergate scandal that rocked America during the 1970s. There are of course differences (tape recorded conversations…
KCCCC Day 15: a campaign about nothing
Nothing. That’s what Election 42 resembles from this distance, or from close up. Nothing. From today’s Hill Times column: Which I will post in its entirety soon enough: “If there…
Stephen Harper, Ray Novak, and the Great PMO Cover Up
Well he can run but he can't hide. Everywhere Chicken Harper goes he is dogged by the Duffy scandal.And asked to answer the latest burning question:If his beloved aide Ray…
The 2004 war with Ottawa revisited #nlpoli
The 2004 “war” with Ottawa over a version of federal Equalization payments to Newfoundland and Labrador is an early episode in the provincial Conservative administration. The confrontation helped propel Premier…
"Cobbsville Redux" or "The Sequel is Usually Worse Than the Original": Part II
When we last looked at Craig Cobb's North Dakota efforts, he had set his sights on a new town. Antler, population 20 (give or take) is just a hop, skip,…
Craig B. Chandler: He’s baaaack (in Ontario)! And he’s gonna get Linda McQuaig … elected!
PHOTOS: A screen grab of Craig B. Chandler telling immigrants to Alberta to vote Conservative or get lost back in 2007. Below: NDP Toronto Centre candidate Linda McQuaig. Brace yourselves,…
Why Stephen Harper Has Suddenly Stopped Talking About the Russians
It's the greatest Arctic mystery since the Franklin expedition. Why after taunting the Russians and their leader for the last two years, in relentless pursuit of the ethnic vote. And…
Calgary-Foothills by-election vote in 18 days. Here’s what the parties are saying.
Taking place in the backdrop of a federal election, the September 3 provincial by-election in the Calgary-Foothills constituency could have a profound impact on the federal election in Alberta. A…
Mulcair asks voters to fire Harper over Duffy scandal
During the 2015 federal election on October 19, Canadians should use the power of the vote to fire Stephen Harper over the Mike Duffy scandal, says NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.…