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…
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Statesman at work
Well this seems to have gone well, what with the takeaway platitudes of agreement between Hollande and Harper about the need for growth and for there to be stability in…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to the importance of a functioning federal system as a means of counterbalancing regional declines – and the forces working to limit anything of…
The Harper interview
A few thoughts on the big interview last night between Harper and Peter Mansbridge on the National… This interview seemed to have two parts to it. The primary focus was…
On federal cases
Paul Krugman compares the effects of burst housing bubbles in Florida and Spain to point out how the EU’s lack of genuine fiscal federalism has exacerbated its crisis. But there’s…
Be it resolved…
…that the European Union is dead… Or at best, on life-support. Discuss. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Didn’t the French…
… get the memo that socialism is dead? I guess not. And combined with the Greek election results, this might prove to be very interesting as Germany pushes the austerity…
Flaherty’s international diplomacy
Remember the G20 finance ministers meeting recently where Flaherty made a splash? Canada was one of the few hold-outs in the G20 meetings last month that dissented against the International…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Coyne is rightly alarmed at the Cons’ move to short-circuit any debate about major policy changes through an omnibus budget bill.…
Flaherty’s no to the IMF
From Canadian Press last night: “Flaherty digs in heels on calls to pony up more bailout money for euro zone.” Jim is all talk to the hand, Eurozone: Finance Minister…
Krugman Puts Europe on Suicide Watch
Princeton economist, New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wonders if Europe’s political leadership has a death wish. “The question then was whether this brave and effective action…
Swiss mag uses Roma child with a gun to push scare story
Die Weltwoche, a conservative Swiss magazine with ties to the right-wing Swiss People’s Party recently published an alarmist article under the title – “The Roma Are Coming: Plunder in Switzerland.”…
La France Forte, or Why You Desperately Need Sarko Standing On the Beach
The French presidential campaign is kicking into high gear, and Nicolas Sarkozy has one key message for his ungrateful people: vote him back in, and he promises to spend his…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amy Minsky uncovers some suspicious-looking spending patterns underlying Robocon, while Postmedia also points out that election results in at least a couple…
The dirty truth as visual essay – Canada’s govt continues aggressive pro-Tar Sands campaign
In the face of all evidence to the contrary, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government continues to shake the shoulders of critics, eliciting the lonely, pitiful cry: “The Alberta Tar Sands are…
Greek Lessons
It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks – less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to close out your weekend. – Erica Alini points out that the effect of the Cons’ lobbying on behalf of the tar sands has been solely to make…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the Harper Cons’ sad efforts to prevent the European Union from accurately accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from the…
European Youth Reeling
We’re flooded with stories about Greece and the Euro and the European Union leaders and their deals. Blah, blah, blah. What these stories almost always overlook are the real victims,…