Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. - Chris Selley nicely summarizes Jack Layton's celebration of life today: I can just hear people kvetching: Was this a funeral for a great…
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Saturday Morning Jack Layton Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Adam Radwanski astutely recognizes that the outpouring of sympathy and grief following Jack Layton's death speaks to the gap between what most political…
Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day. - Leftdog points out that the Wall government's regressive ideology is doing exactly what it usually does - resulting in workers losing ground as…
On uniformity
While there's ample reason to be skeptical about how the Cons plan to handle health care over the next few years, let's note at least one indication that things could…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Lee Berthiaume and David McGrane both discuss the team and the strategy that helped the NDP to build to its current level of…
Deep thought
The Conservatives might stand a better chance being taken seriously in talking about health-care accountability if they hadn't been the ones to end it.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons' justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority: We don’t…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Just as in this year's federal election, the NDP will need to look to move voting intentions once the campaign is underway. But…
On areas of agreement
Of course, one can't expect Jane Taber's coverage to note the flip side to the Cons' strategic distractions. But while Taber hands her report over to Con spinners for a…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Gerald Caplan rightly asks what media outlets think they have to gain by promoting anti-Muslim bigotry: The goal of the Muslim-haters is surely…
Pop quiz
Yes, the Cons' spinners are doing their damndest to try to save Tony Clement's political hide. But since they don't seem to have noticed that their explanation raises more questions…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - The NDP follows up on the Tony Clement G8 scandal by pointing out the connection between his pork-barrelling and the 2008 federal election…
So much left to learn
250 doctors and public health professionals think they can persuade Con MP Kellie Leitch to value ethics and health over political instructions. Which raises the question: after five years of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Naomi Klein points out in the wake of London's riots that there's one kind of socially destructive looting that's been rewarded rather…
New column day
Here, on the desperate need for changes in Saskatchewan's electoral boundaries to better reflect the will of the province's voters. For further reading, see Simon Enoch's recent post, as well…
So *that’s* what journalism looks like
While far too many media outlets have gone out of their way to give Tony Clement and the Cons a pass on this week's thoroughly damning revelations about their G8…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that to end your Tuesday. - The Ottawa Citizen tears a strip off the Cons' G8 patronage and cover-up: The more details emerge about the way the government…
On direct clash
One of the most interesting questions following the NDP's ascent to Official Opposition status was that of how the Cons would seek to attack a party which didn't carry the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Chantal Hebert offers up the definitive response to the Cons, Libs and media outlets still going out of their way to attack…
On official distortions
Charlie Angus is right to note that one of the more serious aspects of Tony Clement's G8 pork-barrel coverup may be the prospect that senior bureaucrats gave false information to…