Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I'd think it's long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a…
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Deconstructiing the Binary Opposition of Politics and Policy in the Harper Regime
Where good politics meets good policy :Dan Gardner's column in the citizen today. I can count on one finger "good policies" from the Harper Regime, and that finger shakes when…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Dan Gardner eviscerates the Cons for their stubborn insistence on mandatory minimum sentences in even the most ridiculous of cases:Imagine a university student living…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government - but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren't…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Dan Gardner rightly points out that the Cons' continued efforts to trash our parliamentary institutions now that they have a majority shouldn't come as…
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…
Vancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed
Dan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times … or Conservatives. Both…
Vancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed
Dan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times ... or Conservatives. Both…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erin catches a typically-partisan response from the Cons to the prospect that a new U.S. stimulus package might contain Buy American provisions once again:What…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Dan Gardner makes the case (with which I wholeheartedly agree) as to the importance of making thoughtful decisions at the best of times:If…
The Onion comes to Canada. Sun’s Mark Bonokoski on Jack Layton.
I’m stealing this directly from Dan Gardner. It’s too perfect to leave on the Twitter floor. This video defines ‘blowhard’ - Mark Bonokoski in a jealous rage over the attention…
The Onion comes to Canada. Sun’s Mark Bonokoski on Jack Layton.
I'm stealing this directly from Dan Gardner. It's too perfect to leave on the Twitter floor.This video defines 'blowhard' - Mark Bonokoski in a jealous rage over the attention given…
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…
Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Dan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is). The summation (emphasis…
Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
The pompadour of pretension Dan Gardner calls this an "indecently enjoyable read". I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really…
Telling
No, Tim Harper's take on the latest news about Nycole Turmel isn't any better than most of the media's coverage. But it does at least include one rather telling contrast:Inside…
Monday Morning Links
This and that for your long weekend reading.- I'm not ordinarily a huge fan of spending much time in the present focusing on the past. But Dan Gardner's suggested label…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Jeffrey Simpson laments the Cons' evidence-averse crime policies. But it's worth noting that Simpson is off base on one point: much as he…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of…