Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Marc Lee charts the share of financial assets held by Canadians of different income levels. And it shouldn't come as much surprise that…
Canadian Wheat Board
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Erin compares the numbers behind the NDP and Sask Party platforms, with the one major difference being the windfall potash profits the Wall…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford rightly says that it's long past time for the Occupy movement to refocus our economy in the wake of a free-market-induced crash…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- For those looking to paint foreign investment as a panacea for economic development, Paul Krugman offers up (via Kash Mansori) what should be…
The One Thing You Need to Know About Hugh McFadyen
He will turn on a dime. That’s a good thing if you’re Jacques Villenuve or Vinn Diesel, but if you are in need of Health Care; are concerned about crime;…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Gerald Caplan laments the difficulty in trying to comment reasonably on the actions of a government whose attitude toward reason ranges from overt hostility…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Simon Enoch rightly criticizes the Cons' fair-weather commitment to democracy in the wake of a fairly resounding vote on the part of Canadian Wheat…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- David Olive points out the growing consensus that those who have benefited most from free-market economics and bailouts alike should be expected to contribute…
Conservative democracy at work
Shorter Gerry Ritz:The only fair vote is one where I get to revise the results after the fact to reflect my preferred outcome.
The last stand
Glen McGregor breaks a bigger story than he seems to realize, as the Harper Cons are now quite explicitly declaring their intention to take a wrecking ball to the Canadian…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading...- While I agree with Murray Dobbin's latest to a point, I'd think it's worth clarifying exactly what kind of fight we can and should…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- He's a bit too shy in pointing out exactly how thoroughly the Cons' position on the Canadian Wheat Board has been rebuked in CWB…
Democracy in action
Shorter Bob Bjornerud:Of course we couldn't possibly object to giving farmers a chance to vote on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board - just as long as it doesn't…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Plenty of observers have noted the Cons' complete lack of a reasonable explanation for standing in the way of a global consensus to at…
On no he di’nt!
It’s not often that malfunctions of a political mind are put so obviously on display. Well, expect for perhaps our dear friend, Hugh McFadyen. OK, we all know that on…
Sunday Morning Links
A variety of content for your weekend reading.- The Lethbridge Herald nicely points out who figures to have a problem with Stephen Harper's decision to have the Canadian public pay…
Private Bills from the gov’t that are not Government bills
We saw this tactic months ago when Candice Hoeppner tried to kill the long-gun registry through her “private member’s bill.” Since it worked so well, Harper is going to try…