Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Michael Harris discusses the impending moment of truth for the Cons in owning up to their substantive failures toward Canada’s First Nations: Whether…
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Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Susan Delacourt comments on what's often lacking from Canadian political coverage - and the challenge facing journalists looking to stop relying excessively on horse-race…
On fairer shares
I’d take some time to rebut the Leader-Post editorial board’s odd claim that the only way to share the proceeds of Saskatchewan’s economy is by slashing public revenue through another…
Leadership 2013 Roundup
One might have thought that the final days of municipal elections around the province would make for a relatively quiet stretch in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign. But instead, it…
Loopholes and leverage
I’ve previously wondered whether we’d see many substantial policy differences between Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. But Erin Weir hasn’t taken long to challenge what’s often seen as party orthodoxy: NDP…
New column day
Here, on how Mitt Romney’s attacks on 47% of American voters is an all-too-natural consequence of rhetoric about taking citizens “off the tax rolls”. For further reading…– Chuck Marr and…
Peter Kent’s Doomed Lemonade Stand
Aaron Wherry generously debunks Peter Kent’s latest farcical spin only within the climate change debate, rather than fitting it into a general governance framework. But while I’ll stick with my…
Opposing Supply Management & Economic Principles
While supply management is bad for our economy, the discussion around it has at least managed to supply how the majority who oppose it are intellectually dishonest. For the Conservatives,…
Parliament in Review – April 4, 2012
After the Cons refused to listen to the opposition parties’ proposed amendments, Wednesday, April 4 saw a day of debate on the main budget motion in the second-last day before…