Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Romeo Saganash comments on the need to recognize and act on our common social bonds:Whether you live on reserve, in the remote north, or…
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Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Erin compares the numbers behind the NDP and Sask Party platforms, with the one major difference being the windfall potash profits the Wall…
Burning questions
Has any government, anywhere, ever done as little in a four-year term as the Saskatchewan Party will admit to planning in its platform?Does anybody expect the Saskatchewan Party to break…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Frances Woolley points out just how much more efficient public-sector health services are compared to private-sector alternatives by contrasting the cost of surgery on…
New column day
It's bad enough having a federal government whose reaction to social problems is to tell the provinces, "No, you go first in dealing with them. I insist." But it's much…
On boomerang effects
Accusing one's opponents of having a hidden agenda has become a matter of standard-issue political strategy. But accusing one's opponents of having a hidden agenda identical to one's own takes…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford rightly says that it's long past time for the Occupy movement to refocus our economy in the wake of a free-market-induced crash…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government - but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren't…
On diverging tracks
The next time we hear as received media wisdom that it's politically toxic to abandon a huge share of Saskatchewan's resource wealth to the corporate sector will be the first.…
New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan's election campaign pits a party pushing instant gratification against one basing its policies on an appeal to voters' altruism.
Saskatchewan Election Roundup
The NDP unveiled its health-care platform today, and learned in short order that the minister currently responsible for our province's health isn't so strong in the accuracy department. The S...
On deposits
I posted yesterday about the Sask Party's opening offering in this fall's election campaign. But it's worth pointing out the NDP's first policy event as well, as Dwain Lingenfelter unveiled…
Trickle-up politics
Saskatchewan's election campaign is officially underway, and so too is the Sask Party's campaign to transfer wealth upward as quickly as they can get away with. Just look at the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it's no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading.- Bruce Johnstone comments on the real source of Saskatchewan's relative economic success over the past few years - and not surprisingly, it has…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Trish Hennessy points out that there's a debt crisis facing many Canadians that will only be exacerbated by public-sector slashing:1.57 TrillionCanadians’ household debt in…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Armine Yalnizyan highlights the fact that while the Cons fight for ever more inequality, even business groups are noting the risks of that direction:…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out how inequality is bad for everybody - including those at the top who are fighting to exacerbate it:Say the…
New column day
Here, on how Saskatchewan's election campaign is shaping up as a choice between personality and policy.And for the latest noteworthy policy proposal from the NDP, see yesterday's community hospital announcement.