New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s first set of utterly implausible attacks on Cam Broten seems to reflect a failure to learn from the mistakes of the Saskatchewan Party’s Republican cousins.…
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Coming Down the Pipeline
*This post has been amended from it’s original content, due to SK NDP Leader Cam Broten coming out in favour of Keystone; the ** denotes the area where the editing…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tim Harper reminds us why Brad Wall is thoroughly off base in claiming that it’s the duty of every Canadian politician to demonstrate…
On social roles
The work (PDF) of the Saskatchewan Election Study in analyzing public views of unions is worth a read generally. But it’s particularly worth noting that the element of union activity…
The Education of Tim McMillan
Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources Tim McMillan has seen fit to respond to last week’s column on Keystone XL and its connection to climate policy. But it’s well worth…
On responsibility
Leftdog has already weighed in on one key connection to be drawn based on the latest news about the siphoning of money from a supposed attempt to toward insiders with…
Deep thought
Brad Wall’s contrived outrage over foreign interference in domestic policy might be a bit less laughable if he didn’t make so much of a show of trying to dictate the…
Campaign: Health4All asks Ontario to follow other provinces to protect refugee healthcare
Even right-wing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks it’s wrong. Recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health program for refugees have led to a storm of criticism by the medical community…
On forced growth
Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership campaign has featured plenty of discussion as to how to define success as a party and a province. But it’s well worth contrasting the varying forms of…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to Simon Enoch’s study of corporate power in Saskatchewan – and suggesting that we use the networks mapped out by Enoch in analyzing the…
Pollster’s take on Alberta leaders’ popularity sets stage for long Prairie slug-fest
Shades of things to come? Alison Redford, Canada’s second most popular premier, gets ready to break a board with Opposition Leader Danielle Smith’s face on it. Situations Alberta politicians find…
New column day
Here, on the need for the labour movement to reach beyond currently-unionized workplaces to address the needs of unrepresented workers – and the positive signs on that front. For further…
New column day
Here, giving credit to the Saskatchewan Party for eventually doing the right thing in funding refugee health expenses - but questioning their selective and PR-motivated claim to compassion.For further reading...The…
Down the drain
There's rightly been plenty of debate over the Sask Party's recently-announced plan to. But there looks to me to be room to take a closer look at exactly what Brad…
New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s unprecedented attack ads against the participants in another party’s leadership race represent an attempt to silence all political debate that isn’t pre-approved by the…
You can’t overlook convenient hours if you hope to preserve the obvious benefits of public liquor sales
In Alberta, this kid would be buying Jägermeister and Red Bull. Below: The Parkland study; Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. In one regard, Alberta’s 1993 experiment in liquor store privatization has…