Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom highlights the lesson we should draw from the economic devastation caused by the shutdown of an Electro-Motive plant which was supposed…
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Parliament in Review: December 5, 2011
Monday, December 5 saw the House of Commons debate the NDP’s motion on climate change. And while the Cons tried to put up a relatively brave facade on an issue…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – If you’re only going to read one analytic take on the NDP leadership campaign, make it Alice’s – featuring this take on Thomas…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – Paul Dechene is duly scathing in comparing the City of Regina’s tax giveaways to big business (which are of course added on top…
Parliament In Review: October 24, 2011
Monday, October 24 saw another day dedicated largely to discussion on the Canadian Wheat Board - with the Cons simultaneously declaring that there's nothing to debate and failing to respond…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- If there's any good news in the Cons' constant attacks on labour, it's the growing recognition that workers need to fight back with no…
Parliament In Review: October 19, 2011
Wednesday, October 19 saw plenty of discussion of the Cons' legislation to undermine the Canadian Wheat Board - both in the second-reading debate on the bill, and assorted procedural moves…
Parliament In Review: October 18, 2011
There hasn't been as much reporting on the Cons' re-introduction of copyright legislation as there was at some other points when previous incarnations were up for discussion. But Tuesday, October…
Parliament In Review: October 17, 2011
Monday, October 17 saw the Cons cut off debate on second reading of their budget bill. Not surprisingly, the day thus focused in large part on the economy - including…
Parliament In Review: October 5, 2011
After the previous day's relatively non-partisan and specific focus, October 5 saw a return to broad debate on the economy - thanks to both a day of debate on the…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Chris Selley points out the absurdity of Ontario's Libs and PCs both running away from the idea of a coalition just as needlessly…
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 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…
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…
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…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - The Halifax Chronicle Herald pushes back against the Cons' and Libs' anti-Bloc witch-hunt: For partisan reasons, involvement with the Bloc has become a…
On targeted development
Shorter Stephen Harper: To anybody who dares question my free trade agreement with Colombia, I say this: you can't make a free market omelet without breaking a few skulls. That's…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- David Olive chimes in on the toxic effects of inequality:Many of us did not engage in “excess,” yet are struggling to make ends meet.…
The debate begins
Earlier this week, Gary Mason asked whether there would be any serious debate over the CETA. In case there were any doubt, Robert Chisholm provides the answer:These deals can create…