Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Damian Carrington reports on the large amount of microplastics raining down on residents of the world’s cities. Geoffrey Morgan notes that Alberta’s farmers are starting to realize that they’re going to be left with the mess left behind – including orphaned wells –
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Paul Thacker discusses the importance of addressing the climate crisis as a health issue. CBC takes a look at a few of the ways a deteriorating climate is affecting Canada. And Taylor Noakes points out the central role a national public transit
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andray Domise highlights the importance of fighting back against the excesses and harms of capitalism, rather than accepting it as being necessary or inescapable: There’s no way around a simple reality for people who consider themselves to be on the left side of
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Caribou – You and I
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib discuss Donald Trump’s holiday menu of serving the rich and feasting on the poor, while Paul Krugman comments on the cruelty of a Trump Christmas. And Nick Purdon and Leonardo Palleja tell the stories of people facing
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Here, on how the criticisms which were used to push Andrew Scheer out of the Cons’ leadership role in fact reflect the fundamental problems with a party built around selfishness as the sole ideal to be pursued. For further reading…– David Akin reported on Scheer’s prolific spending when he was
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Cats amidst chaos.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Canadian Press reports on the Libs’ desire to approve massive tar sands expansions no matter how the resulting production – to say nothing of the consumption left uncounted – would affect Canada’s role in exacerbating a climate breakdown. And Janyce McGregor
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephen Buranyi laments the reality that the public’s increased awareness and concern about our ongoing climate breakdown isn’t being reflected in political decisions. And Noah Smith writes that while the rapid drop in prices for renewable energy may help us avoid the worst
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kevin Drum writes about the need to address the climate crisis as a war for the future of humanity. And Will Wade reports on new research showing that we’ll earn back more than the price of a rapid transition from fossil fuels
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Heather Scoffield writes that a genuine commitment to fighting climate change could resolve multiple major issues facing Canada – while delay serves only to exacerbate them: At the core of today’s western alienation and of today’s search for prosperity is a much larger
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We just received this information so we can’t report on the details, but it seems that the Yellow Vesters in Hamilton might (and I stress “might”) being made accountable for the violence they’ve been engaging in: Justin Long was served a trespassing notice today from Hamilton City Hall. He and
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Follow-Up On "Ted Williams" Article: Changing Names But Same Dangerous Message
A month ago ARC published an article exposing the creator of a series of poorly constructed but virulently Islamophobic, xenophobic, and racist "memes" ostensibly penned by one "Ted Williams": As a result of a tip we were able to identify "Ted Williams" as John Newton, formerly of Toronto currently residing
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Joywave – Obsession
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Assorted content to end your week. – Brigid Delaney writes about the significance of the truth about climate breakdown. Graham Readfearn reports on the risk of outright firestorms as bush fires burn out of control. And Geoff Dembicki writes about a case from the Philippines seeing oil companies held responsible
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linsey McGoey discusses the historical case for abolishing billionaires rooted in Adam Smith’s critique of plutocracy: Smith was scathingly critical of the wealthy’s disproportionate power over government policymaking. He complained about the tendency of the rich to shirk tax obligations, unfairly passing tax
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Curled-up cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Ritter writes that a gross failure to act against a climate breakdown causing out-of-control wildfires and unprecedented temperatures is creating a crisis of legitimacy for Australia’s government. Chris Hatch and Barry Saxifrage discuss the failure of the world’s governments to turn dozens of
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Weapons of the Weak
[James C. Scott. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.] A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-grained class relations in a peasant village in Malaysia in the late ’70s
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: And The War For Control Over The CPC Begins
With Andrew Scheer announcing his resignation as CPC party leader this week, the war for control over the party begins in earnest. Make no mistake, this is not a fight between individual candidates espousing different visions for the party. This is about the factions within the party trying to gain
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