Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – If anybody hasn’t yet seen Bruce Anderson’s critique of the Cons’ dirty tricks, it’s well worth a read – especially in emphasizing how…
Greg Fingas
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – December 4, 2011
Not a lot has changed since last week’s rankings. But with the first NDP leadership debate looming this afternoon, let’s quickly take stock of where the candidates stand – including…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Weston nicely chronicles Peter MacKay’s flat-out lies about how he came to take a $30,000 helicopter ride. And while Weston despairs about…
New column day
Here, on the need for equitable resource sharing to start writing a new ending to Canada’s shameful story of First Nations relations – and how the Saskatchewan NDP nearly took…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading. – Rachel Mendleson reports on research showing that inequality is correlated to mortality rates within a particular city – with the sole exception of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddled cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dan Leger comments on the combination of secrecy and control exerted by Stephen Harper over the entire federal government. And the “Harper…
Leadership 2012 – Policy Roundup
As the NDP’s leadership race moves into the limelight, the candidates are starting to unveil some of their policy priorities. As I’ve mentioned it’s an open question as to how…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – With prorogation looking like it’s bound to be back on the table fairly shortly, Lori Turnbull offers a worthwhile suggestion to end the…
Parliament In Review: October 31, 2011
Monday, October 31 saw a study in contrasts as two matters were debated in the House of Commons: a private member’s bill which understandably saw broad agreement, and an opposition…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Dr. Dawg highlights the fact that a shift toward private charity doesn’t do anything to escape the Cons’ politicization of public services, as…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emily Dee takes a first look at what may be a highly important story about the Cons’ use of the notorious right-wing…
Parliament In Review: October 28, 2011
Friday, October 28 saw another day largely dedicated to debate on the gun registry, with plenty more key points by the opposition met with the Cons’ usual wall of refusal…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – November 26, 2011
Last weekend, I mentioned my intention to introduce NDP leadership rankings. Before getting to the rankings themselves, though, let’s make clear exactly what the below is intended to reflect. First,…
On avoidable barriers
Plenty of others have already commented on Elections Canada’s National Youth Survey Report. But I’ll take a moment to highlight a couple of the findings that look particularly significant as…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Stephanie Larocque highlights the Cons’ gall in hanging onto federal reimbursements from their own ad scam even after having admitted their guilt: You…
Musical interlude
Marina Chello – What’s Done Is Done (Solitaire Club Edit)
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Garnder rightly points out how too much concentrated power and a refusal to take advice can lead to bad decisions. And sadly,…
On building blocks
I left Chantal Hebert’s take on the NDP’s leadership race out of this morning’s roundup since it seems worth addressing in a separate post. And in some other contexts, I’ve…