Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jean Swanson writes about the success of Vancouver tenants in pushing to limit the rent increases which can be forced on them. But any win for collective action will come attempts to stifle more of the same – and Dan Taekema reports on
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Santens writes about one possible endpoint of the current trend toward precarious employment, being the implementation of a basic income to make sure a job isn’t necessary to enable people to do meaningful work. And Common Dreams reports that a strong
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s manipulative consultation designed to push liquor retailing into the private sector only managed to highlight the fact that our current system is working just fine. For further reading, the consultation materials are here, including the survey results here (PDF). And even though those don’t
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On misappropriation
Shorter Don McMorris: You might think that a publicly administered and funded consultation process would be intended to inform provincial public policy decisions, and that partisan platform development should be funded by a political party instead. But let me assure you that Brad Wall’s government has no such scruples.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On sucker’s deals
Shorter Brad Wall: But what you less-sophisticated, not-so-business-savvy people don’t understand is this: when you pawn the furniture, you get CASH MONEY UP FRONT. How can that be anything but a great deal?
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pat Atkinson discusses the need to make sure that Saskatchewan’s boom-time spending actually sets us up for long-term prosperity, rather than fiscal disaster: Even though the OECD report, the burgeoning federal government deficit, China’s economic slowdown and America’s political deadlock all advise
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Here, following up on this post as to the public returns Saskatchewan stands to lose if Brad Wall insists on giving away liquor profits to private operators rather than working within the proven SLGA retail model.A few footnotes to the columns…- The …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2013 Roundup
With a couple of weeks’ worth of developments to address, I’ll take a slightly higher-level look at the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race than I normally do. (And for those worried about missing out, note that we should have an opportunity to revisit ne…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Down the drain
There’s rightly been plenty of debate over the Sask Party’s recently-announced plan to. But there looks to me to be room to take a closer look at exactly what Brad Wall is determined to give away – so let’s take a back-of-the-envelope look at the profi…
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