He Could Care Less
http://joyhog.com/ If yesterday served as any indication, Stephen Harper isn’t going anywhere. I confess I’ve had my doubts he’d make it to the
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Hubris Is Alive And Well
Some economists saw the Great Recession coming. Certainly Robert Reich did. But, as Paul Krugman writes in this morning’s New York Times, an army of economists missed the boat. They…
Daffy’s In Charge
http://www.poxteer.com/ Last week was a banner week for the Harper government. It announced the ratification of FIPPA. And it also announced a reduction in EI premiums —
The March Of Folly Continues
http://rabble.ca/ On Friday, the Harper government announced that it had ratified the Foreign Investment and Protection Agreement with China. It has taken awhile. Apparently,
Stunning Inequality
http://rabble.ca/ The Broadbent Institute has just released a study on the distribution of wealth in Canada. Rick Smith, the institute’s director, writes: While the growing income share of the richest…
Welcome To The Harperian Universe
http://americanelephant.com/ The Harper government plans to enter the 2015 election with a hefty surplus. But, Linda McQuaig writes, don’t expect that money to be spent on health care: Medicare, with…
More Poor Choices?
http://zoompf.com/blog Yesterday, the Harper Party released its latest campaign ad. It was Stephen Harper’s steady hand at the tiller, the ad claimed, that has guided Canada through the economic storms…
The Smell Of Desperation
http://notesfromachair.com/ If you want to really know what’s driving the Harperites these days, Devon Black writes, consider the tactics they are using: Twice in the last three months, Conservatives have…
Things Could Get Very Nasty
http://www.careerbuilder.com/ Canada’s job creation numbers have been dismal. Carol Goar writes: The numbers are striking. Since last autumn, Canada has created 50,000 part-time jobs but lost 20,000 full-time
Dipper Drift?
http://news.nationalpost.com/ In yesterday’s Toronto Star, Chantal Hebert suggested that, if recent events in Ontario are an indication of the party’s future, the NDP may be drifting back to
How Many McJobs Go With That?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/ When Burger King gobbled up Tim Hortons two weeks ago, Joe Oliver crowed about Canada’s low corporate tax rates. But, Linda McQuaig writes, Oliver is telling whoppers, not selling…
Et Tu, Brian?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ When Brian Mulroney appeared before a parliamentary committee to explain his connections to Karl Heinz Schreiber, Stephen Harper let it be known that Mulroney
All Hat And No Cattle
http://www.windsorstar.com/ Stephen Harper is in Wales today, bellowing at the Russian bear. NATO will discuss the necessity of increasing defence spending to meet the challenge from Russia —
How Many Friends Does He Have Left?
http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot.ca Jason Fekete reports in this morning’s Ottawa Citizen that the Harper government is stepping up its war on the Parliamentary Press Gallery: The federal Conservative party continues to fire…
The Well Heeled Terrorist
http://abcnews.go.com/ The conventional wisdom holds that violence and terrorism is the inevitable consequence of poverty and ignorance. Cass Sunstein, who teaches law at Harvard, writes that the evidence suggests something…
Labour Day 2014
http://www.cp24.com Just what is the state of Labour on this Labour Day? If you were to use Harper government policy a a yardstick, the
The Petro Goose Is Getting Cooked
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/ The oil industry has stopped laying golden eggs. Its profits are being squeezed. That news has not been widely reported. But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, it has been hiding in…
Ignoring The Obvious
http://www.breitbart.com/ Stephen Harper has just completed his ninth tour of the North. These tours provide the prime minister with an opportunity to serve up warm rhetoric.
What Do They Do Now?
http://www.pinterest.com/ Justin Trudeau said recently that the biggest threat to global security is “the kind of violence and misunderstandings and wars that come out
Ignorance Is Strength
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/ The central theme of Stephen Harper’s re-election campaign has emerged: Harper against the elites. In his tour of the North, Harper called Justin Trudeau an elitist. And, this week,…