Michael Harris Laments Democracy’s Yoke Under Harper
With the specter of the Parliamentary Budget Officer taking the Clerk of the Privy Council to court, a momentous question looms over our public affairs: will the Harper government answer…
Civil service
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your Saturday. – Susan Delacourt’s mention of “likeonomics” as a branding strategy offers an interesting reference point for Canadian politics (particularly since our political scene has…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 2 Discussion
Chapter 2 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society discusses the place of politics as “medicine on a larger scale”. Meili looks for lessons in our political discussion based on how…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jared Bernstein discusses the effect of raising taxes on the highest-income households, featuring this in particular: Growth and jobs. History shows that higher…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yes, the individual examples are worrisome enough. But the real takeaway from Sarah Schmidt’s report on the CFIA’s testing of food products for…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danielle Martin discusses the importance of federal involvement in Canada’s public health care system: Whose job is it to co-ordinate health-care reform in…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Cassidy neatly contrasts growth in the postwar period against that in recent decades – with the former seeing a “picket fence” growth…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading… – No, we shouldn’t read too much into the first wave of polling following Thomas Mulcair’s election as NDP leader. But there are…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The revelations just keep on coming in Robocon, to the point where the news of an offensively-named burner cellphone account used to leave…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Susan Riley brilliantly slams the message that austerity is necessary for everybody but those who already have the most: Is anyone else getting…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Vivian Belik looks at the long-ignored outcomes from a guaranteed income experiment in Dauphin, MB – and finds that the positive results of…
Helpful for now
Frances Bula offers up what should be a good-news story about a volunteer effort to track down tax rebates for homeless people: Ms. Lissimore did 300 tax returns last year…
Parliament in Review: November 4, 2011
Friday, November 4 saw another day of spirited question period debate on the economy. But for once, the main theme was total cooperation – even if much of the day…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Edmonton Journal makes it clear that the Cons’ efforts to stymie any global climate change agreement aren’t without some serious controversy even…
Monday Evening Links
Assorted content for your evening reading. – While I’m less than convinced about his desire to break down party loyalties, David Thompson highlights the need for progressives to fight back…
Revolving doors and New Prosperity’s new employee
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 While Taseko’s “New Prosperity” mine may be “new...
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Friday reading.- Susan Riley points out that nothing positive figures to come from the Cons' plans to slash Canada's public service:No good will come of proposed…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Alex Himelfarb offers a warning about Canada's current inequality trap:In a society with just a few winners and many losers, a case can…
Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Andrew Potter comments on Samara's most recent findings about federal politicians in Canada:Samara’s findings underscore the profound amateurism that permeates our national politics. When…