The mercenary qualities of liberal economists
Here is Mankiw circa 2007: Thursday, July 19, 2007 The Taxation of Carried Interest Several people have asked me my views on the taxation of carried interest. It is a…
Canadian Politics
Reading the NDP Tea Leaves
Any good pundit (for is that not what I aspire to become?) must dispense with caution and modesty from time to time and, in godlike fashion, attempt to predict the…
He’s cheesy and he’s greasy
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Peggy Nash or Bust
OK time to get off the fence. There are presently two visions of social democracy at play within the NDP. One that wants to drag the NDP further to the…
Stop closing your model
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world, who discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only…
Saskboy and Jymn rub The Globe’s nose in #RoboCon | #cdnpoli
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: “And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so…
Dumb and Dumber
Who is a clumsier liar and stupider spin merchant – Dean Del Mastro or Maurice Vellacot? In this corner….IT WAS THE LIBERALS! Conservative demand Liberals release phone records, but won’t…
Tough Choice…
Who to despise more – the callow attendees of the Conservative Youth Conference lapping up wisdom “from senior staff from the winning 2011 federal campaign” or the reckless bunch of…
A small bit of advice for Stephen Harper
If you’re going to send a spokesperson out to the media and talkshows to defend/obfuscate against robocalls and whether or not your party engaged in voter suppression, I’d suggest Dean…
Canada’s Decline: Election Fraud & PetroState Politics
Wow. Where does a progressive Canadian climate blogger get started on this Monday morning? Political developments in this wonderful country have been snowballing into a bigger and bigger mess for…
Why Stephen Harper really wanted those pandas
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Rppe.org under attack
For those trying to access RPPE.ORG the site has been temporarily suspended do to an attack. It appears the attack was directed at the parent host. I knew something was…
Understanding the Current Canadian Political Situation
So much is going on in the Canadian political landscape, I really didn’t know where to start. That said, this article tries to cover a lot of the problems that…
sunday, march 11: toronto rally for democracy
Yesterday the rallies kicked off in Vancouver. Next Sunday is Toronto’s turn. Demand a complete, public inquiry into election fraud in the 2011 election. Demand a by-elections! Toronto:Sunday, March 11,…
Analyzing Nathan Cullen’s Joint Nomination Plan
NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen has staked his bid to be the next Prime Minister of Canada on an unconventional electoral strategy. He would allow so called joint nominations where,…
Conservative Robo-Fraud Update
With the latest meme from the PMO in hand, Conservatives under hostile fire in Question Period, uniformly downplay the “robocall scandal” as nothing but an “unsubstantiated smear campaign”… Well, at…
The NDP Leadership Foreign Policy Awards – 2012
The evening of the Academy Awards a good friend and I were reviewing the foreign policy platforms of three NDP leadership candidates, Tom Mulcair, Brian Topp and Peggy Nash. Here…
avaaz petition to rcmp and elections canada to broaden investigation
This petition from Avaaz calls on the RCMP and Elections Canada to expand their investigation beyond the one riding in Guelph, to third parties, including all robocall contracts, and all…
Harper and the electoral fraud scandal | #cdnpoli
You know, I really want to believe this thing will grow uglier and get out of control. Massive, systematic and coordinated misinformation, all with the express purpose of disenfranchising voters?…
canadians, report election fraud now
Canadians, if you or someone you know may have been the victim of election fraud during the 2011 federal election, please fill out this survey. The clock is ticking. When…