Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Jim Stanford discusses how Canadian right-wing parties are picking up on the most extreme anti-labour stances of the U.S. Republicans. But I do have to wonder...
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Assorted content to end your week. - Michael Harris follows up on the previous activism to save the Experimental Lakes Area by noting that efforts to work with the Harper Cons are providing both...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted material to end your weekend. - Chrystia Freeland comments on the self-destructive nature of elite protectionism: (E)ven as the winner-take-all economy has enriched those at the very top,...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Pat Atkinson discusses the need to make sure that Saskatchewan’s boom-time spending actually sets us up for long-term prosperity, rather than fiscal disaster:...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Crawford Kilian comments on Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats as a useful expression of trends many of us have seen in action for some time: (T)he plutonomy is...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. - In response to the Fraser Institute’s latest attempt to foment panic (to be used as an excuse to attack public programs and hand yet more free money to...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Ray Grigg explains how Idle No More and other decentralized social movements may make for a crucial counterweight to the Harper Cons and their...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. - The Guardian discusses how the all-too-familiar trend of growing inequality and ever more precarious lives for all but the fabulously wealthy is...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your Family Day. - Gerald Caplan comments that it’s long past time to put the Senate out of its misery: Who knew that when well-known Canadians in 2011 begged old acquaintances...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Ed Broadbent takes a look at how our tax system can combat inequality in more ways than one: The Broadbent Institute is presenting proposals Tuesday to the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Frances Russell laments the state of Canada’s Potemkin Parliament (and the resulting harm the Cons are inflicting on our political system and our...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Ontario’s austerity policies self-defeating — Hennessy
There are many ways to tell a story. For Trish Hennessy, Ontario director at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, one way is to look at the most searched word annually for the on-line...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Jordan Brennan and Jim Stanford put to rest any attempt to minimize the growth of inequality in Canada: (I)ncome inequality has reached a historic extreme....
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Andrew Jackson discusses why attacks on Old Age Security – including the Fraser Institute’s calls for increased clawbacks – serve no useful purpose:...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - George Monbiot comments on the dangerous effect of agreements which place investors’ interests above those of governments and citizens: From the outset, the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Costas Lapavitsas discusses the disproportionate hold finance has over the global economy: Financialisation represents a historic and deep-seated...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Ken Georgetti discusses how the corporate tax giveaways of the past 15 years have hurt most Canadians: The Conservative government and special interest groups...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Rick Smith hopes that the Cons’ backtracking on income splitting means that they won’t go quite as far out of their way to exacerbate income inequality in the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - The Economist looks at the relationship between equality and growth, showing that there’s at worst little evidence that fairer economies have any trouble...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Trish Hennessy’s latest numbers focus on the skills gap myth in Canada. And PressProgress documents a few of the Cons’ damaging public service cuts...
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