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…
free trade agreements
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…
New column day
Here, on how the TILMA's regressive trade rules are spreading across Canada in other forms. For further reading...- I've posted several times before about just some of the problems with…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Sixth Estate examines which party's candidates have violated the Canada Elections Act in recent elections. And it shouldn't be much surprise that Canada's…
On devolution
It remains to be seen exactly how much discussion of social policy will move from the federal level to the provincial one as Canadian civil society adjusts to a Harper…