Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Polly Toynbee looks at how the UK is now treating children in need as investment opportunities to be exploited by investors, rather than…
Tim Hudak
Following Politics Too Closely Takes Its Toll
I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of change on a…
The Abominable Tim Hudak and the Koch Connection
I have to admit that I sometimes find it hard to take Tim Hudak seriously. He's such a goof, such a lousy campaigner, such a loser. Until I remember that…
Will Ontarians gamble on the future of their health care?
Harris fired 6,000 nurses when he was Premier. What’s the over/under with Timmy? Timmy Hudak. He’s in over his head. (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – George Monbiot writes that contrary to the theory that wealth is a precondition to environmental standards, increased consumption tends to correlate to…
Death by One Hundred Thousand Cuts
In my last post I criticized Tim Hudak’s campaign over some early gaffes, and called them amateurs. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for that to amateurs…
Tim Hudak is sooooo out of touch!
Of course he is out of touch. It’s Tim Hudak that we’re talking about here, folks. That’s not a big surprise. But what is a surprise isthe extent of his…
Why I’m Glad I Wasn’t A Math Teacher
While those heard-headed pragmatists who rule the world today often disdain ‘soft’ subjects like English literature, sociology, and a host of other disciplines that require nuanced, as opposed to blunt…
Meanwhile, Back In The Land of Ontario Election Campaigns….
The mask of boyish innocence was slowly slipping away from young Tim Hudak. H/t Toronto Star H/t Ray Mirshahi Recommend this Post
Ontario voters not liking Hudak’s Voodoo Economics
First off, yes, this is a Forum poll, but like BigcityLib, I’ll take it as a starting point as to what people think of Tim Hudak’s 100 000 public sector…
Tim Hudak’s Jobs Plans: Certain Pain Now; Uncertain Gains Later
Tim Hudak made two overarching jobs-related announcements in this Ontario election campaign so far. In one, he said he’s going to cut 100,000 public service jobs. In another, he said…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Doug Saunders interviews Thomas Piketty about the need for checks on the undue accumulation of capital, and the readily available means of…
What Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak And The Rest of The Neocons Really Think
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Hudak’s plans to cut teachers in statistics and politics
It’s election time in Ontario and that means graphs and statistics, facts and factoids, some stale, some new come out of the woodwork. Take the tweet below as an example,…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alyssa Battistoni writes that a universal basic income could go a long way toward solving environmental and economic problems alike by placing a…
Election 2014: Hudak’s view of health care limited to only doctors and nurses
Premier Kathleen Wynne probably had the best line on PC Leader Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 public sector jobs, suggesting he was “turning paycheques into pink slips.” Toronto Star…
The Hudak Campaign: The Liberal and NDP Secret Weapon
I can think of only five possible reasons for the way Tim Hudak and the PC team conducted the early part of their Ontario election campaign: Highly trained operatives from…
The Gaffe-man
I’m almost starting to wonder whether Tim Hudak isn’t doing all of these “gaffes” on purpose; he and his campaign strategists surely can’t be THIS inept (can they?): The latest…
Oops!
But at least young Tim manages to retain his boyish grin during yet another campaign gaffe. Recommend this Post