Pension trade-offs and democratic deficits
Forget houses as a source of secondary income – that’s so 2007. After the latest recession, Americans are increasingly dipping into their retirement savings to fund on-going consumer expenses. Many…
paternalism
All hail the Glorious Leader Trope #nlpoli
“Province to deliver on promise of whistleblower law” read the headline for the CBC’s online story about the provincial government throne speech read Wednesday in the House of Assembly. About…
Kathy Dunderdale, give-aways, and the resource curse #nlpoli
Ontario has been interested in Gull Island since at least the 1990s. We didn’t need Kathy Dunderdale to say that again as part of the advertising show she is mounting…
When rights are annoying #nlpoli
There’s something about this frivolous and vexatious thing that caught people’s attention right from the start. Under the provincial Conservatives’ new secrecy laws, a cabinet minister can refuse to disclose…
Bennett’s telephone call “gendered violence” according to PACSW prez #nlpoli
Most of you likely missed it, but a sharp exchange in Twitter on Monday showed the way politics in this province rolls these days. Dara Squires writes a blog called…
And this surprises you because…? #nlpoli
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is about what the social scientists – like political scientists, for example - would call clientelism. You may have heard it called patronage. Regardless of…