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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - The outrage against the Cons’ total online surveillance scheme continues, with Dan Leger, Mia Rabson and Michael Geist adding noteworthy comments to the mix. -...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Frank Graves notes that for all the spin from the Cons and their enablers about public acquescience in program slashing, there’s actually another issue...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Janet Bagnall neatly dissects the Cons’ plan for dismantling public services: The Harper government is nothing if not predictable in how it goes about...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Joe Stiglitz discusses the link between increased inequality and the U.S.’ economic frailty: Any solution to today’s problems requires addressing the...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Pamela Palmater discusses how the Cons’ push to monetize First Nations reserves ultimately looks to be little more than another giveaway to the oil...

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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - John Cameron highlights the importance of liberal arts education – as well as the fact that only a few people (who happen to nicely coincide with the Wall...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Thomas Walkom, Dan Leger and Michael Harris write about the sketchy surveillance programs in place on both sides of the 49th parallel. But there may be...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Dean Beeby reports on the utter uselessness of the latest set of publicly-funded Con propaganda. But more importantly, John Ibbitson notes that most of the...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Dan Leger points to the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion as an all-too-vivid example of the intersection of privatized profits and socialized risks: Are we...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week. - The CP reports on the latest federal-provincial discussion about pensions. And as is so often the case, all parties at the table seem to agree that there’s an...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Michael Katz looks back at how the U.S. abandoned its poor – and how that choice continues to affect people across the income spectrum today. And Michael...

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Accidental Deliberations: New column day

Here, on the link between personality politics and the culture of scandal that’s developed around Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and other political figures. For further reading…- Once again, Dan Leger and...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Tim Harper and the Star’s editorial board each offer up some hope that 2014 will be a more productive year in politics than 2013 was. And Nora Loreto offers...

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The Disaffected Lib: Duffy’s Shadow Looms Over Harper’s Future

We won’t have long to wait for the release of the tell-all book on Mike Duffy, penned by his old journalism colleague, Dan Leger. The book, Duffy: Stardom to Senate to Scandal,  is said to revisit the...

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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Sarah Ayres discusses the value of the social safety net as a matter of both social and economic policy: A significant body of evidence supports the view that,...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Barrie McKenna looks to Norway as an example of how an oil-rich country can both ensure long-term benefits from its non-renewable resources, and be far more...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week. - Murray Dobbin writes about the damage caused after decades of allowing the corporate elite to dictate economic policy – and notes that the Cons are determined to...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week.  - Emma Woolley discusses how homelessness developed into a social problem in Canada in large part through public neglect. Judy Haiven is the latest to...

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Elizabeth Renzetti makes clear that we can’t count on one-time crowdsourcing to perform the same function as a social safety net: This is the problem with...

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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - CBC reports on the latest research showing that Canada would save billions every year with a national pharmacare plan. And Thomas Walkom argues that...

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