Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Benjamin Israel, Jan Gorski, Nina Lothian, Chris Severson-Baker and Nikki Way highlight the reality that increased extraction from the tar sands is fundamentally incompatible with any attempt to meet reasonable greenhouse gas emission targets. And Jonathan Watts reports on new research from the
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Tame Impala – Is It True
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Here, on the attempt at a hostile takeover of the U.S.’ political system – and the need for Saskatchewan to update its campaign finance rules to avoid the same fate. For further reading…– Libby Watson wrote about the decline of the U.S.’ public financing system once candidates decided they could
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So, yesterday Michelle Rempel, and 3 other CPC MPs from Alberta put their names to the so-called “Buffalo Declaration“. The name “Buffalo” is a nod to an early proposal to create a province called that from the region of the Northwest Territories that is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. Synopsis of
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Miller takes note of the corporate media’s bias against Wet’suwet’en land defenders and others engaged in demonstrations in solidarity. Stuart Trew comments that we shouldn’t let demands for convenience override the ongoing need for reconciliation. Paige Raibmon writes about the obvious error
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac offer a stark look at the plausible worst-case scenario for a climate breakdown over just the next thirty years. And Zarah Sultana argues that in the UK (as elsewhere), we need to demand transformative politics to respond
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monika Dutt offers a reminder that some of the best investments we can make in improving public health are aimed at social factors: As a physician, I often see people at high risk of poor health because they live in poverty. We know
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heesu Lee reports on Greenpeace’s estimate that air pollution costs the world nearly $3 trillion every year. And Damien Cave writes that this year’s wildfires have permanently changed Australia as people knew it. – Meanwhile, Alice Bell warns against trusting oil barons
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Don Pittis writes about Thomas Piketty’s take that Bernie Sanders may be exactly what the U.S. needs. – Laurie Penny wonders whether we’re yet capable of overcoming the culture of complicity around the powerful men daring the justice system to hold them to
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Andy Shauf – Try Again
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Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Leach and Martin Olszynski go into detail about the calculations around the Teck Frontier mine – and particularly how any pricing assumptions which could make development viable are far out of date. – Kate Yoder points out how the fossil fuel industry
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Broadbent and Andrew Jackson highlight how among its other advantages, a national pharmacare program would prevent workers from being tied to jobs by a need to preserve coverage through work: On top of the unnecessarily high and rising cost of private
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jeff Spross calls out the absurdity of gutting protections for health and safety in the name of “regulatory certainty” – particularly when that really only means businesses know they can get away with as much damage on the public as they can inflict.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Fiona Harvey writes about the perfect storm of environmental crises leaving us at risk of societal collapse. And Tim Flannery calls out the deception and denial from Australia’s government after it has contributed to setting its own country ablaze. – Mark Olalde
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Annie Lowrey writes about the affordability crisis which has left most Americans in dire financial straits even as aggregate economic numbers look reasonably strong: (B)eyond the headline economic numbers, a multifarious and strangely invisible economic crisis metastasized: Let’s call it the Great Affordability
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carson Hammond and Rob Rousseau each make the case that Canada needs a left movement for change comparable to the wave of U.S. activism propelling Bernie Sanders toward a presidential nomination. – Brigid Delaney argues that we need to stop settling for
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments that Democrats who failed to recognize and respond to a rigged economic system share in the blame for the rise of Donald Trump’s toxic populism. And George Monbiot notes that Trump is just one of many strongmen-in-the-making daring anybody to
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Metric – Dressed to Suppress
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