Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy crunches the numbers on vacation time for Canadians:47Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than they’ve needed…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- As quickly as the Fraser Institute churns out corporate propaganda, Sixth Estate responds - this time nicely debunking a report encouraging yet more giveaways…
Fraser Institute’s Ethically Challenged Drug Experts Release Another BS Report
The Fraser Institute has released a new report on healthcare, and as usual, it’s a whopper. They claim that we should get rid of price controls because our system provides…
Fraser Institute Reads Sixth Estate?
That definitely is the leading possibility, as a new report from the Fraser Institute has finally updated the listing of that group’s Editorial Advisory Board to reflect the total number…
Greenpeace uncloaks phony anti-climate change scientist
Dr. Willie Soon has been the go-to scientist favoured by climate change deniers for years. Used by the Fraser Institute and Koch Industries, Soon has proven invaluable in giving ammunition…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your long weekend.- Sixth Estate's evisceration of the Fraser Institute continues, this time with a response in substance to the claim that private-sector rent-seekers will somehow…
Fraser Institute on Poor People’s Health Insurance: “Let Them Eat Cake!”
Yesterday I reported on a new Fraser Institute study by Brett Skinner and Mark Rovere, noting that the existing government drug system does not serve poor people well and claiming…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper…
Fraser Institute Tries New Ethical Disclosure Tack in Bid to Promote Private Healthcare, Fails Miserably
The Fraser Institute’s latest propaganda piece is Access Delayed, Access Denied, an attempt to solve the very real problem of delayed access to important new medications in Canada by bogus…
Fraser Institute Editorial Advisory Board Largely Dead
I have noticed this in a previously with other right-wing think tanks, but as the gentleman at The 6th Estate has noted on several occasions, several people on the The…
Shock Doctrined Through Think Tanks
A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I've been reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, and what I find interesting, is that American Imperialism over the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans' plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare,…
On Being Shock Doctrined by the Media
While reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, it occurs to me that Canada, like many other nations, had become the science lab for Milton Friedman and the Chicago School.Stephen Harper's…
On credibility gaps
Since I haven't yet seen this story linked to the spin which seems to have made it necessary, let's put two and two together.The professionals responsible for maintaining the solvency…
The Liberals need to reform themselves. I think I know how.
Last month I attended an event hosted by the Conservative Party of Canada’s University of Calgary club that had Preston Manning come in and talk about democracy, coalition building, and…