Where is James Moore?
By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government’s politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To...
View ArticleLPG cut, Summerworks restored: Is this any way to run a culture?
Update, June 14th: Moore reverses cuts to LPG. By Frank Moher Let us now consider the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the confusion that is its Minister, James Moore. As we reported on the...
View ArticleParliament’s darkest day, and finest
By Montreal Simon It was the Canadian Parliament’s darkest day, and at the same time one of its finest. Each new round of voting began with a round of applause from the New Democrat benches and ended...
View ArticleParliament’s latest protesting Page
By Montreal Simon It’s an inspiring sight, and a chilling one. Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer standing up for the right to know the truth, in a country where the Big Lie rules. As the...
View ArticleThe Conservatives miss their budget projections. Again.
By David@Sixthestate.net Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The...
View ArticleThe Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliff
By David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual...
View ArticleFlaherty’s magic surplus
By Montreal Simon Well in case you thought that the Con regime was nickel and diming veterans, and killing good jobs all over the country, because they absolutely HAVE to slay the deficit. Or as Jimbo...
View ArticleFlaherty: An insatiable desire to kill government
By Montreal Simon I think it’s fair to say that he was a better person at the end of his political career than he was at the beginning. He did reinvent himself from a pit bull to something vaguely...
View ArticleIn the shadow of Flaherty’s funeral
By Montreal Simon Well I knew what he was going to do from the moment he announced that Jim Flaherty would have a state funeral, for no good reason. And then let it be known that he had PERSONALLY...
View ArticleHarperism, from Hayek to Koch and Coyne
By Alison@Creekside Neo-liberalism: trickle-down, deregulating, deunionizing, globalizing free market privatization of government. When Stephen Harper was studying under the “Calgary school” in the...
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