Accidental Deliberations: #skndpldr Roundup
A few observations about the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race in advance of tonight's first debate... The main news over the past week has involved the release of the candidates' October donation and...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova offer up a framework for a more progressive and fairer tax system. - Andrew Hanon looks behind the Fraser Institute’s...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - The Star makes the case for a serious crackdown on offshore tax avoidance: Thanks to a spectacular data leak Canadians are getting a glimpse into what some...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: #mtlqc13 – Day 1 Review
Based on my posts leading up to the NDP’s federal convention, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that my main focus is on the substantive policy debates. And the first day saw some positive...
View ArticleOPSEU Diablogue: CLC TV ads promote unions, fairness
When we talk openly about our unions, others listen. Let’s face it, for all the warts, unions have done an incredible job in securing and maintaining many of the things we cherish today – from paid...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Ralph Surette highlights the dangers of a pollution-based economy which fails to account for the damage we’re doing to our planet and its ability to provide...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Sarah Lazare reports on UNICEF’s research showing an appalling increase in child poverty in many of the world’s richest countries: “Many affluent...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Louis-Philippe Rochon explains how higher taxes on the wealthy can be no less a boon for the economy than for the goal of social equality:In fact, empirical...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Duncan Cameron offers his take on the Paris climate change conference. Martin Lukacs notes that while the agreement reached there may not accomplish anywhere...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Shaming Chauvinists 101
Hey, Canada. Don’t you just hate it when other countries make us look so 20th century? In the UK, they’re going to publicly shame employers who maintain gender wage disparities. Sure, it’s not...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Study highlighting large and growing gender income gap...
PHOTOS: Status of Women Minister Stephanie McLean, at left, announced the NDP Government’s plan to improve gender equality yesterday. (Government of Alberta photo.) Below: Queen’s University Law...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Frank discusses the essential role of luck in determining the opportunities we have - and how the advantages of a strong social fabric are too often...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Owen Jones argues that public policy and social activism are needed to rein in the excesses of a corporate class which sees it as its job to extract every...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading.- David Korten writes that despite the trend of the past few decades, there's nothing inevitable about international agreements inevitably favouring...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jim Tankersley interviews Joshua Bivens about the relative effects of economic growth and income inequality - and particularly his evidence showing that more people...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Cue the crickets: Where are the media warnings Canada Post...
PHOTOS: Locked out postal workers in a past dispute in Halifax (HalifaxMediaCoop.ca photo). Below: St. Albert resident’s illegal “Restore door to door” sign (CBC photo), Controversial Canada Post CEO...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Yanis Varoufakis makes the case for an international progressive political system to ensure that social progress doesn't stop at national borders:(T)raditional...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the continuing obstacles to pay equity and other gender equality in the workplace.For further reading...- For background on the current state of the gender pay gap in Canada, see the Canada...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rachel West charts how higher wages and improved social supports can reduce crime rates and their resulting costs.- Lana Payne comments on the glass ceiling...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William G. Gale, Hilary Gelfond and Aaron Krupkin examine the evidence as to the effects of upper-class tax cuts, and find that they serve no purpose but to...
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