Song of the Watermelon: On Ezra Levant’s Victimhood
I have been blogging for nearly four months now, and am embarrassed to admit that — contrary to firmly established best blogging practices — I have yet to engage in the art of personal attack. Today, I...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Laura Ryckewaert looks in more detail at the continued lack of any privacy protection in the Unfair Elections Act. And Murray Dobbin is hopeful that the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Michael Hiltzik points out new research showing that business-focused policies do nothing at all to encourage any positive economic outcomes: in fact, a...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Charlie Smith discusses – and then follows up on – Donald Gutstein’s work in tracing the connections between the Harper Cons and the shadowy, U.S.-based...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Collapse of rickety Wildrose coalition of market fanatics and...
A recent meeting of the Wildrose Party Legislative caucus. Actual members of the official Opposition party may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: NDP Leader Rachel Notley and Wildrose Leader...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: What are Premier Jim Prentice and his three ‘agents of change’...
Alberta civil servants: do you get the feeling someone may have their eye on you? Below: Agents of change Richard Dicerni, Ian Brodie, Oryssia Lennie and Steve West. Premier Jim Prentice says he...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Neoliberal Conspiracy
If you ever wonder how we could end up living in a world where the richest 80 people on Earth are now as wealthy as the 3.5 billion poorest people.Or wonder why the top ten percent in Canada are...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Jim Stanford highlights the fact that a deficit obsession may have little to do with economic development – and calls out the B.C. Libs for pretending that...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Frank Graves writes that we’re seeing the end of progress for all but the wealthiest few – and that we all stand to lose out if we come to believe that progress for...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Event: The Inconvenient Truth About Harper’s Canada
In Ottawa this evening, prominent authors Michael Harris and Donald Gutstein will discuss the “inconvenient truth” about Stephen Harper’s Canada. The post Event: The Inconvenient Truth About Harper’s...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Myth busting
Andrew Nikiforuk wrote advice for Albertans in his recent article Eight Steps to Reform the Broken Petrostate: Behave like an owner: Alberta’s oil and gas resources belong to Albertans. The Tories’...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nick Charity reports on the observations of the UN’s envoy on poverty and human rights that callous and cruel austerian political choices have caused harm...
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