Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Following up on yesterday's post, the Hill Times reports that even the first set of cuts from the Harper Cons' majority looks to have…
economy
New column day
Here, on how the Wall government's economic strategy is resulting in Saskatchewan paying more to get less out of private-sector development.
Report: Broad Bipartisan Support For Action On Climate Change
climatechange.jpg A new report by George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication shows that voters in America are concerned about global climate change, and would support...
Another financial meltdown in the U.S.?
President Obama is warning of one if the debt ceiling is not lifted. The American government will exceed its legislated debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion in August. Trillion. 14,300,000,000,000. Holy…
Koch Money Fuels AFP Misinformation Campaign On Gas Prices
Obama Gas Bill.jpg The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is taking their misinformation machine on the road in an attempt to convince American consumers that President Obama is causing t...
Up for debate
The NDP has released a first look at the prioritized resolutions from this weekend's #vancon2011 (PDF). And while most of them may not come as too much surprise (or appear…
Worth discussing
One of the few times when the NDP has always been able to count on pundit attention in the past has been its policy conventions, when commentators often churn out…
Ontario NDP would role back tax cuts for corporations
New Democrats will scrap McGuinty’s corporate tax rate giveaway: Horwath « Ontario NDPIt's been proven time and again that giving tax cuts to corporations doesn't create jobs for Canadians and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- The Star skewers the Cons' insistence on pushing ahead with bad budget choices:As the Star argued during the election, Canada needs progressive economic vision…
On recruitment tactics
So that's the Cons' long-term economic action plan...A Conservative MP recently nominated by the federal government to sit on a secretive Canada-U.S. committee on continental defence told U.S. officials he…
Built to crash: the coming economic tsunami
`Would you rather have a perfectly efficient system that, if hit by a pebble, would shatter? Or, would you rather have an adaptable system that may not give you the…
Why Do The Poor Continue To Defend Tax Breaks for the Rich?
Why do the Poor Continue to Defend tax Breaks for the Rich Great post by Cory McCray. This applies to Canadians too. Excerpt: Sometimes I just don’t understand why there…
Gas Prices Are Too Low
Everyone loves to talk about gas prices, but few can agree what to do about them. Pointless boycotts of local stations have no real impact on the price of gasoline…
Oilsands optimism on the downslide
canada.com The oilsands continue to take public relations hits across the globe. Just recently the Keystone pipeline leaked yet again making for the forth pipeline leak in relation to oilsands…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- In case we didn't already have enough examples of the Wall government's contempt for voting, James Wood notes that it's dragging its heels…
Harperites Tax Policies Aggravate Gap Between rich and Poor
Toronto Star The full story In addition to the weaknesses noted below in Les Whittington piece, one could also ask how effective is an accelerated reduction of the federal debt…
Economic Hitman Confesses
This is how I see the economic system of the world operating, and it’s the basis for many of my feelings about the economy in Canada and in Saskatchewan. It’s…
Tim Hudak vs. his own record
Tim Hudak once said he'd fight the HST "tooth and nail" after being accused of flip-floping on the long record of PC support for a harmonized tax system, and now…
The Politics of Fear: An election post-mortem
The politics of fear: An election post-mortem | rabble.caBy Trish HennessyExcerpt:(Part one of a series)This blog post attempts to explain the power behind the dominant frame at play in this…
Tim Hudak vs. Ontario jobs, Eastern Ontario edition
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Hudak+urged+support+green+energy/4787642/story.htmlFrom Windsor to Ottawa, Ontario families & Ontario businesses are standing up to defend jobs created for families by private investment helped by the Ontario Lib...