Friday Morning Links
This and that to end your week. – Paul Wells comments on the NDP’s new style of opposition: When I used to ask the Liberals, when they were the Official…
This and that to end your week. – Paul Wells comments on the NDP’s new style of opposition: When I used to ask the Liberals, when they were the Official…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Wells had previously theorized that the size of environmental demonstrations in Montreal might hint at the NDP’s ability to establish a…
This and that for a sunny Saturday. – Paul Wells discusses the clash shaping up between the Cons and the NDP: Some 57 per cent of respondents said they’re dissatisfied…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell comments on the Canada which the Harper Cons are determined to destroy. But the more important point looks to me to…
B.C. First Nations are reacting with anger to the government’s decision to retroactively shorten the regulatory review for the Northern Gateway pipeline project in British Columbia. “This incredibly stupid move…
Assorted content to end your week. – Yes, there was huge news in Robocon yesterday, with Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand rightly declaring the Cons’ fraudulent vote suppression to be…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dan Gardner writes about the Cons’ backup plan of answering their own wrongdoing with criticism of anybody who dares to investigate it –…
A few days worth of news from the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton appealed to NDP members to consider the need to build among younger voters. – Co-campaign manager…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Frank Graves notes that for all the spin from the Cons and their enablers about public acquescience in program slashing, there’s actually another…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Erin notes that the revenue gap being used as an excuse to demand massive cuts in Ontario is nearly entirely closed with…
Paul Wells has a theory about the political playing field developing for Canada’s 2015 federal election. And his laments that a new NDP leader won’t get to take a three-year…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Paul Wells points out that despite the Cons’ best efforts to get Canadians to panic over the state of our retirement system, the…
Sure, he’s recycling the work of bloggers without giving acknowledgement (mostly DC; maybe me a bit). Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Roy Romanow, Linda Silas and Steven Lewis make the case for significant federal involvement in shaping health policy in Canada: Provinces can’t transform…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kady highlights the Cons’ combination of complete incompetence in rejecting positive amendments to their dumb-on-crime bill, and dishonesty in pretending not to…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells speculates as to what comes next for the Harper Cons once their first set of legislation is rammed through a majority Parliament.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Simon Enoch rightly criticizes the Cons' fair-weather commitment to democracy in the wake of a fairly resounding vote on the part of Canadian Wheat…
I won't try to catalogue all of the writing about Jack Layton's passing today, but here are a few pieces worth a look... - Steven Staples concludes that Layton's reputation…
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper's inexplicable warnings about Canada's eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Yes, plenty of attention is being paid to Canada's weak ranking when it comes to innovation. But it's well worth noting that the failure…