Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Jordon Cooper writes about the dangers of growing income inequality in Saskatchewan and around the world: Income inequality is driven largely by market...
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jordon Cooper writes about the need to understand poverty in order to discuss and address it as a matter of public policy. - John Greenwood reports on Cameco’s...
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This and that for your mid-week reading. - Erin Weir posts the statement of a 70-strong (and growing) list of Canadian economists opposed to austerity. Heather Mallick frames the latest Con budget as...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Following up on this morning’s post, George Monbiot discusses the need for a progressive movement which goes beyond pointing out dangers to offer the promise...
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Shannon Gormley points out that human rights are meaningless in the face of a government which claims the entitlement to strip people of their humanity – which...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Jordon Cooper rightly argues that we should move away from forcing people to rely on homeless shelters and other stopgap measures when we can afford to...
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Here, on the need to turn the holiday spirit of charity into lasting improvements in the lives of the people who need help the most. For further reading…- Joe Gunn and Iglika Ivanova also discuss the...
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. - The Economist argues that lower oil prices offer an ideal opportunity to rethink our energy policy (with a focus on cleaner sources). And Mitchell Anderson...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Dennis Howlett reminds us that we can raise enough money to strengthen our social safety net merely by ensuring that a relatively small group of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Lawrence Ezrow writes that the disconnect between the public and policymaking that’s done so much harm to the U.S. isn’t quite as severe in more equal...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Branko Milanovic discusses how rent theory fits into the glaring gap between productivity and wages: Bob Solow explored a couple of days ago another...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jim Stanford highlights how the Cons are focused on exactly the wrong priority in pushing for cuts at a time when Canada’s economy is in dire need of a...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Alan Freeman discusses the need for an adult conversation about taxes to replace the Cons’ oft-repeated policy of ignorance: Focusing on low taxes is great...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Jordon Cooper offers his take on the many social issues we should be addressing alongside our work to welcome Syrian refugees:All levels of government...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Karen Palmer writes about a push by U.S. doctors to follow in Canada's footsteps with single-payer health care - even as a few profiteers seek to tear our system...
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This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Neil Irwin writes about the White House Council of Economic Advisers' study of employment policy which found that superior protections for workers (rather than...
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Here (via PressReader), on how the North Saskatchewan River oil spill may not lead directly to a needed reevaluation of the risks of pipelines - but a public expectation that we'll shift away from...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Atrios offers a reminder as to how means-testing tends to make social programs more vulnerable to attack without making our overall tax system more...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Nora Loreto slams the Wynne Libs' "red tape" gimmick, while highlighting the need for people to claim a voice in rules largely intended to protect them as...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Peter Martin reports on the Australia Institute’s recent study showing that corporate tax levels have little to do with foreign investment: New...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Jordon Cooper rightly argues that Brad Wall’s plan to slash education will only doom Saskatchewan to be further trapped in boom-and-bust resource...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jordon Cooper writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s slash-and-burn budget confirms that for them, the poor don’t matter. CBC reports on the devastating...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Abi Wilkinson writes about the importance of making social benefits universal in order to reflect a sense of shared interests and purpose: Universal aspects of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Martin Patriquin takes Saskatchewan’s increasing recognition of the Wall government’s institutional corruption to the national stage: Politicians who navigate...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Trade Justice reports on Justin Trudeau’s role in pushing for an international corporate giveaway through a new Trans-Pacific Partnership – even as the country...
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