Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links

By Greg Fingas, on July 19, 2012, at 10:50 am

This and that for your Thursday reading.

- Vaughn Palmer discusses the unfortunate gap between the outrages that may lead to a government being pushed out of power, and a new government’s ability to actually reverse what’s been done. Which, a propos of nothing, makes it rather important to push lame-duck incumbents to respect the democratic will of citizens rather than pushing through controversial plans without even the bare pretense of public consultation.

- I don’t have any problem with the idea of “hardheaded socialism” as a successful economic and political model, particularly as it fits the NDP’s

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Accidental Deliberations: Guest Post: On governing authorities

By Greg Fingas, on March 29, 2012, at 10:20 pm

Dan Tan offers another guest post – this one responding to a bit of misplaced advice from Embassy with a helpful reminder as to how policy is formulated within the NDP: The foreign-affairs publication ‘Embassy’ recently published the following article: Advocates hope new Opposition leader shifts NDP position on Israel The election of Thomas Mulcair as leader of the New Democratic Party could signal a coming shift in the party’s policy on Israel, some advocates predict…

I am sure many NDP members will treat its content as a sort of “prophecy”. But in reality, the article is actually engaging

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