Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joel Wood highlights the social cost of carbon as a crucial reason to work on reducing greenhouse gas emissions rather than insisting on…
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford writes about the obvious problems with globalization as it’s currently structured – and the need to meaningfully take into account the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Himelfarb and Trish Hennessy offer their take as to what we should expect out of Ontario’s basic income experiment: Critics rightly argue…
New column day
Here, on how the Libs’ carbon price rollout managed to maximize the resulting sound and fury while signifying little actual progress. For further reading…– Marc Lee offered a reality check…
A compelling counter-narrative: Are Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley singing from the same hymn book?
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Chris Schwarz, Premier of Alberta/Flickr). Below: Brad Wall, Saskatchewan’s cranky premier; a tease from the Calgary Herald’s web page…
Rachel Notley’s demand for a pipeline quid pro quo demonstrates the steely side of Alberta’s premier
PHOTOS: Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley. Below: Peter Lougheed, Alberta’s first Progressive Conservative premier, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his father, the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau. GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta…
This Time, It’s Personal
SOURCE: Speech-Language & Audiology Canada – Saskatoon Health Region Cuts to Audiology & Speech Pathology Positions will Negatively Affect Patient Care Hello blogging my old friend…Well, I’ve certainly pushed my…
This Time, It’s Personal
SOURCE: Speech-Language & Audiology Canada – Saskatoon Health Region Cuts to Audiology & Speech Pathology Positions will Negatively Affect Patient Care Hello blogging my old friend…Well, I’ve certainly pushed my…
Notley searches for her Lougheed moment by demanding oil pipelines for Trudeau’s carbon tax
Demanding the federal government help “break the landlock” and support the construction of oil pipelines from Alberta, Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips drew a line…
Into the dark
Apparently provincial finances have joined monthly job reports as areas where if there’s nothing to be spun in the Saskatchewan Party’s favour, Brad Wall is making a concerted effort to…
Deep thought
Memo to those commentators perpetually seeking any available excuse to compare Brad Wall to historical leaders: now would be an ideal time to point out his government's turn toward the…
Rachel Notley does remarkably well in face of unrelenting campaign of vilification … Sun newspapers? Not so much …
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Below: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, the Mr. Congeniality of Confederation if you believe his press clippings; Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. Notwithstanding a flagging economy and…
In case we didn’t have enough reasons to want Donald Trump to be trounced…
...he's now serving as Brad Wall's latest excuse for climate obstructionism. We'll see if anyone asks the implied follow-up question: whether Wall is actually hoping for a Trump win on…
On available alternatives
Shorter Murray Mandryk:A poll which shows the NDP picking up support from dissatisfied Saskatchewan Party voters proves my point that the NDP can't possibly pick up support from dissatisfied Saskatchewan…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Erin Seatter interviews Adam Lynes-Ford about Brian Day's latest attack on universal Medicare. And Ricochet's editorial board highlights how Day is ultimately fighting…
Rain’s forecast, but today promises to be a sunny Labour Day celebration just the same
PHOTOS: A Canadian Labour Day parade, well back in the day. Below: A poster for today’s Labour Day barbecue and picnic in Edmonton, J.S. Woodsworth, first leader of the CCF,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Armine Yalnizyan writes that the response to the European Commission's finding that Apple has dodged $20 billion in taxes may tell us all we…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Armine Yalnizyan writes that the response to the European Commission's finding that Apple has dodged $20 billion in taxes may tell us all we…
On cost comparisons
Following up on yesterday's column, let's take a moment to examine just how foolish the Wall government's insistence on trying to sell off SaskTel is even as a matter of…