Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - George Monbiot writes about the dangers of allowing wealthy and privileged individuals to speak as the voice of the poor and downtrodden: As the UK chairs the...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. - Scott Sinclair discusses how CETA could create extreme and unnecessary risk in Canada’s banking and financial system: The failure of a single company (such as...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Michael Harris nicely describes what the Cons are actually doing with power while pretending to be innocuous fiscal managers: The PM and his government are not...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - The Globe and Mail weighs in on the Lac-Mégantic tragedy by pointing out that we should be far more concerned about public safety than technical defences...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Bill Gardner discusses the effect of inequality and poverty starting at birth: There are three important facts packed into this slide. First, the lines...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Stephen Beer argues that the UK’s Labour Party should take the lead in arguing for a financial transactions tax oriented toward reducing inequality: The...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Alison Bennett reports on the OECD’s work on offshore tax avoidance, highlighting the “stateless income” that’s shuffled around the globe so as to avoid...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: New study makes the case for postal banking in Canada
The reintroduction of postal banking in Canada would offer access to financial services not now available to many Canadians, says new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: FINTRAC collecting personal banking information of...
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart accuses FINTRAC of collecting the personal banking information of thousands of innocent Canadians. The post FINTRAC collecting personal banking...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Heather Mallick discusses what Canada stands to lose as Canada Post is made both more expensive and less functional. Ethan Cox suggests that what’s missing...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Costas Lapavitsas discusses the disproportionate hold finance has over the global economy: Financialisation represents a historic and deep-seated...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Ryan Meili highlights the need for a plan to address poverty – rather than the customary bromides about a rising tide lifting all boats: Elimination of poverty...
View ArticlePolitical Eh-conomy: Myths of central banking
The Bank of Canada has been in the news lately – or, more precisely, the news has been full of other well-placed people telling our central bankers what to do. In an interview on CTV this past weekend,...
View Articlecmkl: There’s a credit union at Bank and Somerset again
Back when I moved to Ottawa in the early 1990s I did all my banking with one of the big commercial banks. I realized how wrong that was but what could I do? “But there’s the cutest, most friendly...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Jim Stanford discusses how unions and collective bargaining improve the standard of living for everybody: The following figure illustrates the broad negative...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Mark Taliano discusses how corporatocracy is replacing democracy in Canada, while Jaisal Noor talks to John Weeks about the similar trend in the U.S. And...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, looking at a $396 million annual benefit in the form of lower wireless rates for Saskatchewan residents serves as a prime example of the value of public enterprise – and pointing out a few other...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - David Dayen discusses how prepaid debit cards are turning into the latest means for the financial sector to extract artificial fees from consumers....
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Linda McQuaig discusses how the interests of big banks ended the Cons’ willingness to consider postal banking which would produce both better service and more...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - PressProgress highlights how the Cons’ stay in office has been marked by temporary rather than permanent jobs, while Kaylie Tiessen writes that precarious...
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