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2016
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Andrew Jackson discusses how large inheritance and accumulated capital lead to gross economic and social distortions:Inheritances are quite heavily concentrated among the most affluent…
Apparently, Size Does Matter
Given its increasing preoccupation with boyish concerns, the Republican 'presidential' debates are turning out to be anything but magisterial. With a persona carried over from his reality show, Donald Trump…
Don’t Confuse Me With Facts
That does seem to be the attitude of Mr. Trump's ardent supporters, doesn't it?Recommend this Post
Ontario Conservatives look for leadership.
They can scrub him, fix his hair and dress him properly but it hardly adds to his ability to lead. Patrick Brown might hold the title of Ontario Progressive Conservative…
Donald Trump and the Great Size Scandal
I wasn't able to watch the last Republican debate because I don't get Fox at my place. Which turned out to be just as well. Because the last thing I…
What’s behind ‘Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation’ campaigns like its stunt calling for rollbacks in Alberta teachers’ pay?
PHOTOS: A typical Canadian Taxpayers Federation stunt, moved from place to place across Canada with the goal of undermining public services and speeding the race to the bottom. The picture…
Failure to preserve evidence
R. v. Laing, 2016 ONCA 184: The leading case on the failure to preserve evidence is R. v. La, 2 S.C.R. 680, the principles of which are summarized in R.…
Jim Thistle, 1954 – 2016 #nlpoli
Most of you have likely never heard of Jim Thistle.Jim passed away on Thursday after a brief illness. He was only 61 and until he was diagnosed with a very…
Protest Organized in Response to JDL’s PEGIDA UK Event in Toronto
On Saturday we posted an article which included information regarding a PEGIDA UK event organized by the JDL. At this event the leader of PEGIDA UK, Paul Weston, would be…
Musical interlude
Hooverphonic - Mad About You (Orchestra Version)
March 4: On the last page…
...there is an ad critical of privatization. It is one of, perhaps, four items in this paper worth reading.The front page headline is that the light snowfall we have had…
A Republican Insider Wants Trump to Destroy the Republican Party
Republican stalwart, Bruce Bartlett, backs Donald Trump. Bartlett thinks the utter destruction of today's GOP is the only way to save it.
America as Weimar. Anschluss for Canada?
It's a development that's been predicted with dread for some time - the end of constitutional democracy in America and the rise of a post-constitutional, authoritarian and fascist state. It's…
David Suzuki: Will cap-and-trade slow climate change?
Environmentalist David Suzuki wonders whether the crisis of climate change can be addressed through the markets and cap-and-trade, which "also embodies the polluter pays principle." The post David Suzuki: Will…
Sudbury Steve’s Fascinating Theory
In the wake of yesterday's announcement of a huge breakthrough in cheap, effective and scalable storage battery technology, our friend Sudbury Steve asks whether this is what caused the Saudis…