Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ben Casselman writes that rather than looking to manufacturing jobs alone as a precondition to gains for workers, we should instead focus on the…
May 2016
Peace Bonds
A peace bond is a court order in which a person who has threatened or harmed you agrees to stop the threatening or harmful behaviour and to stay away from…
New Fiction: Empty Space Times Two
This piece is probably the most straight-up sentimental thing I’ve ever written, but I’m quite chuffed to join the ranks of the writers who have been published by The Saturday…
Paul Godfrey is What’s Wrong With Capitalism
Canada's media companies give capitalism a bad name.
Fight the Right and more!
This came out four years ago. Today, I am in meetings about two new books – one done, one not. A bestseller that enables me to retire remains elusive.
Highly-Scientific Poll™: should Prime Ministerial spouses have staff?
This has been a raging controversy, apparently, bigger even than Fort Mac and ISIS. I know this because it was the subject-matter of two radio shows I did yesterday –…
They’re Perseverating
Just before Mike Duffy's acquital, the leader of the Conservative caucus in the Senate, Leo Housakas, released the following statement:“In the event Senator Duffy is acquitted on all counts, he…
Empathy for Alberta doesn’t include bitumen.
Having fought forest fires as a young man in our Canadian military, we well understood the serious concerns for life and property recently in northern Alberta. The rapidly shifting winds…
The Cons and the NDP Go After Sophie Trudeau
Well I suppose it was inevitable, she's young, she's smart, she's Justin Trudeau's princess.So first the Cons went after Justin, then they went after their children, then they went after…
The Incredible Gall of Postmedia’s Paul Godfrey
I knew that the Postmedia boss Paul Godfrey is absolutely desperate, as his sinking media empire takes on more water, or debt, with every passing hour.But who knew that after…
Paul Martin—Canada’s greatest finance minister?
Paul Martin’s official prime ministerial portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill on Wednesday. During the ceremony, he was referred to as the greatest finance minister in our history—lavish praise indeed.…
Paul Martin—Canada’s greatest finance minister?
Paul Martin's official prime ministerial portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill on Wednesday. During the ceremony, he was referred to as the greatest finance minister in our history—lavish praise indeed.…
Paul Martin—Canada’s greatest finance minister?
Paul Martin's official prime ministerial portrait was unveiled on Parliament Hill on Wednesday. During the ceremony, he was referred to as the greatest finance minister in our history—lavish praise indeed.…
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Duck family gets police escort to safety | Saskatoon StarPhoenix:
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Duck family gets police escort to safety | Saskatoon StarPhoenix:
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Who wants to lead Alberta’s PC Party?
A surprisingly strong turnout of 1,001 registered participants at last weekend’s Progressive Conservative Party annual general meeting in Red Deer gave party stalwarts a glimmer of hope for the third-place…
RCMP turn a blind eye to abandoned firearms in Fort Mac – manna to the gun lobby but a worry to the rest of us
PHOTO: RCMP officers like these in High River during the flooding to 2013 were subjected to a vicious campaign of vilification by some Alberta gun enthusiasts for seizing abandoned weapons…
Tax havens have no economic justification, 300 economists tell world leaders
"There is no economic justification for allowing the continuation of tax havens," 300 economists told world leaders ahead of the Anti-Corruption Summit, hosted by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in…
Should the Summer Olympics Be Called Off?
There's a perfect storm raging in Brazil. The country is in a catatonic state over the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff. Social unrest is growing. The government, meanwhile, is doing…