Others have already pointed out the substantive recklessness of Brian Pallister’s refusal to accept federal funding for climate projects in the education system. But Pallister’s choice of wording – that of a “hoax” – may be even more significant than the money involved. After all, the “hoax” terminology is entirely
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Erika Beauchesne discusses the benefits of a wealth tax as both a means of reducing inequality, and a source of revenue for public priorities: Canada’s NDP has proposed a one per cent tax on wealth over $20 million as part of its
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne points out the options to make life genuinely affordable for Canadians – while noting that the Cons’ usual tax baubles don’t make the list. And PressProgress both reveals Doug Ford’s plans to slash Ontario’s already-insufficient housing supports, and lists Brian Pallister’s
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PVRIS – Walk Alone
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Keean Bexte, Associated With Members/Supporters of ID Canada Hate Group, Harassing Congresswomen Attacked By Trump
I decided to follow up the article I posted yesterday concerning the Canadian far-right’s celebration of Trump’s overtly racist Tweet attacking four Congresswomen of colour (followed by a rally in North Carolina where he reveled in the crowd chanting “send them home!” before lying and claiming he didn’t like it
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Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford calls out corporate apologists for blaming workers for deteriorating working conditions and stagnant wages which have resulted from deliberate policy choices: Unemployed workers on the dole for months at a time? Clearly they aren’t looking hard enough for work. Low-wage workers
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Canadian Far Right Celebrate Donald Trump’s Most Recent Example of Overt Racism
In 1947, a short film was produced by the American War Department warning Americans to be wary of racist demagogues and the dangers they pose to democratic institution: The film was produced in response to horrors of a global war still fresh in the memories of the American public in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Geoff Dembicki interviews Leah Gazan about the need to put people over corporate profits in our political system. – Dale Eisler writes about the need for our conversation around climate change to focus on an honest appraisal as to how we can rein
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Slumbering cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alastair Campbell discusses how the latest group of right-wing demagogues has progressed from being post-truth to being post-shame. – IMFBlog examines how the perpetual slashing of corporate tax rates has eliminated needed public revenue – particularly in lower-income countries – without producing
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Assorted content to start your week. – Cédric Durand and Razmig Keucheyan highlight the return of economic planning as a widely-recognized public policy option – while pointing out the need for our democratic systems to allow for public direction of the planning process. And Lauren Townsend writes about the importance
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – PressProgress reports on federal government focus groups indicating the twin problems of precarious employment and high costs of living: According to recently published public opinion research commissioned by the Privy Council Office (PCO) newly reviewed by PressProgress, the Trudeau government’s own internal
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones offers a needed reminder that no matter how often it gets trotted out as a basis to ignore the ideological underpinnings of parties oriented toward the concentration of wealth and power, the concept of compassionate conservatism is nothing more than a
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Delerium feat. Mimi Page – Blue Fires
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Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Pearl discusses the climate despair of people understandably having difficulty working toward a longer term which is utterly neglected in our most important social decisions. But Macleans’ feature on climate change includes both Alanna Mitchell’s take on what a zero-emission future might
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Islamophobe and Racist Eric Brazau’s History of Violence
This might be a bit dated, but ARC just received some information that makes it relevant again. Back in July 2014, Eric Brazau entered a crowded subway car along with fellow bigot Ron Banerjee. His intention was to “debate” (read: harass and harangue) individuals on the car about the dangers
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Reich points out that the most significant political divide is the one between the wealthiest few and the rest of the population: In reality, the biggest divide in America today runs between oligarchy and democracy. When oligarchs fill the coffers of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the bleatings from far too many corners that there’s no right time to discuss meaningful policy choices – and the federal NDP’s push to prove otherwise. For further reading…– The NDP’s set of campaign commitments is here (PDF). And I’ll be looking at some of the specific proposals
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Unhappy Silences
[Berenice Malka Fisher. Unhappy Silences: Activist Feelings, Feminist Thinking, Resisting Injustice. Toronto: Political Animal Press, 2019.] A book by a life-long activist and retired scholar thinking through the many varieties of a kind of moment familiar to anyone invested in questions of justice and liberation: When we know we could
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Cats amid wreckage.
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