This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rupert Neate writes about the twelve-figure tax avoidance by the U.S.’ largest tech firms, while noting that Amazon stands out as the worst offender. And Meagan Day interviews Ramesh Srninivasan about the need to democratize the administration of the Internet. – Meanwhile,
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Fraser Institute Claims That Alberta Public Sector Employees Are Overpaid
The Fraser Institute is notorious for pushing a hard right, neo-liberal, approach to economic and fiscal policy. In my experience, their methods are at best sloppy analysis and at worst outright twisting to push a particular policy agenda. This past week they have published a battery of "reports" that they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Hutton discusses how the U.S.’ monopolistic economic system threatens anybody who becomes subject to its whims. And Eric Levitz points out how a wealth tax which ensures that everybody is required to contribute to the price of a functional civilization should appeal
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes that contrary to the dogma of budget scolds, the truly reckless course of action is to fail to invest public money in state capacity: After four decades of neoliberalism, the state’s capacity has been drastically hollowed out. Key public
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olivia Bowden reports on new research showing that the harmful health effects of air pollution are even worse than previously known. – But in case anybody was under the illusion that we’d expect polluters to pay for the cost of their damage, Chris
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Meg Myers – Running Up That Hill
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: ARC Celebrates 12 Years on Blogger: Some Big Changes In The Works
NOTE If you are considering supporting ARC’s work financially, we have a Patreon account. It was 12 years ago that I posted this message to what would become one of Canada’s premier monitoring sites of the racist and far-right which, if I’m to be completely honest, is still as much a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the failure of neoliberalism to provide gains for any but the wealthiest few has led to risks to the democratic systems which have been treated as tied to laissez-faire economics. And Armine Yalnizyan challenges the false assumption that increased
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the “hush memo” issued to Saskatchewan doctors, and the Moe government’s eagerness to limit any voice for public servants to an ineffective whistleblower process. For further reading…– David Giles previously reported on the Saskatchewan Party’s plan for a snitch line to centralize all concerns about the health care
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Guy Dauncey makes the case that it’s entirely possible – even if daunting – to meet the challenge posed by the climate crisis. But we need first to come to terms with the reality that emissions are still rising even as the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Iron March Leak: Former Blood & Honour Member, Atomwaffen Division Affiliated, and Canadian Forces Member MOONLORD Identified
We’ve been spending a great deal of time trying to dig up who MOONLORD is. For the background please take a look at the story we published earlier this month: Iron March Leak: Forum Moderator MOONLORD Was Former Calgary Blood & Honour Member, Active Canadian Forces, Supported Atomwaffen, and Apparently
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Black Feminist Thought
[Patricia Hill Collins. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2009.] A Black feminist classic, and deservedly so. An effort by one of the most prominent Black feminist sociologists in the US to create a sort of overview and synthesis of the rich and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jason Hickel observes that what progress has been made in human health and quality of life is the result of progressive policies, not leaving plutocrats to do what they will: (S)ocial services require resources. And it’s important to recognise that growth can help
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Kevin J. Johnston: Was the Poodle in the Pound?
It has been quite some time since we’ve heard from Kevin “Poodle” Johnston which is odd since rarely have we seen someone who liked to hear the sound of his own voice than him. We did however catch a recording in which he claimed nefarious individuals in the GTA had
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with company.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz writes about the dangers of measuring economic and social progress solely in terms of GDP: It is clear that something is fundamentally wrong with the way we assess economic performance and social progress. Even worse, our metrics frequently give the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew MacLeod discusses how an anti-worker campaign at the Mountain Equipment Co-op demonstrates the need for employees to be able to bargain collectively without being subject to employer interference. – Linda McQuaig writes about Doug Ford’s plans to slash what’s already Canada’s lowest
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: November 2019 Bits and Bites: Defamation Suits, Vanderweide, CNP, and Endangering Lives
Our research into Canadian members of Iron March based on the leaked forum information is ongoing. Suffice it to say we’ve been finding some especially interesting individuals who will be profiled here on the blog in time. However November has been an especially eventful month so I thought I’d do
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Texas King – Boomerang
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dylan Matthews writes about the growing body of evidence showing that minimum wage increases boost pay for lower-income workers while having no effect on the availability of jobs. And Paul Karp and Amy Remeikis report on new research challenging the explanation for reducing
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