Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - John Myles discusses the Cons’ war on evidence: The mandatory Census was the lifeblood of almost all social and business planning. It provided key...
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Paul Dechene interviews Maude Barlow about the downside of privatizing public infrastructure: Somebody asked me to point blank explain the difference...
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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....
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Assorted content to end your week. - Pat Atkinson writes that governments at all levels should be setting up realistic fiscal plans to deal with a large group of retiring boomers – not artificially...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Stephen Harper to Canada: ‘It’s not my fault! Now shut up and...
Trying to change the channel: Unfortunately for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the remote seems to have disappeared under a pillow and the movie stuck on the TV screen stars Mike Duffy, shown above...
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Assorted content to end your week. - Murray Dobbin recognizes that there’s more at stake on the federal political scene than merely replacing the Harper Cons – and that the most important debate may be...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: The Lang-Jimbo Reality Show? CBC may be missing its moment
Somebody suggested that the CBC would be a far more interesting place if the Lang-O’Leary Exchange morphed into the Lang-Jimbo Reality Show. Now that’s a CBC we might be inclined to fight a little...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - The Economist takes a look at the effect of international trade agreements – and confirms the long-held concern that the erosion and non-enforcement of labour...
View ArticleA Different Point of View....: Are our banks really safe?
The world banking system could come crashing down around our heads again – even worse than in 2008. Giant banks apparently learned very little from the earlier collapse. Many of them are carrying on...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Jim Stanford counters the myth of labour shortages by pointing out Canada’s significant – and growing – number of potential workers who lack a job. And...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Jim Stanford reminds us that even Statistics Canada’s already-galling numbers showing increased inequality in Canada understate the problem, as they...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Jim Stanford writes about the myth of a labour shortage in Canada: In this context of chronic un- and under-employment, it is jarring that so many employers,...
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Assorted content to end your week. - Robert Reich (via GlenInCA) points out the connection between a strong middle class and curbs on corporate excesses – with may go a long way toward explaining why...
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Assorted content to end your week. - Jim Stanford discusses how unions and collective bargaining improve the standard of living for everybody: The following figure illustrates the broad negative...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Jim Stanford writes that union-bashing has proven to be political poison for many of the parties who have tried to distract from increasing inequality with...
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Assorted content to end your week. - Mitchell Anderson discusses Canada’s woeful excuse for negotiations with the oil sector – particularly compared to the lasting social benefits secured by Norway in...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Ezra Klein comments on the U.S.’ doom loop of oligarchy – as accumulated wealth is spent to buy policy intended to benefit nobody other than those who have...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Andrew Jackson reviews Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, while Paul Mason offers a useful summary. And David Atkins applies its most...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Jim Stanford writes that Tim Hudak’s combination of austerity and indiscriminate tax slashing represents a recipe for less jobs rather than more: Mr....
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: Election 2014: Economist says “jobs candidate” would begin...
PC leader Tim Hudak has wrapped himself in the persona of being the jobs candidate. He claims that his government would create a million jobs in Ontario – a 15 per cent increase to the existing 6.9...
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