This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dan Hancox discusses how both work demands and consumerist force are causing people to lose sleep. And Jodi Dean writes about the need for a sense of comradeship to counter the impossible expectation of self-reliance. – Anand Giridharadas argues that the wealthy
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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Xenophobic "Meme" Propagandist "Ted Williams" Uncovered
A few days ago while collecting screenshots for a future article on billionth and one example of far-right infighting I came across this post on Canadian Combat Coalition leader Dan Dubois' Facebook profile: It behooves me to mention that none of what is claimed here is actually true. "Truthful." Remember
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sabrina Shankman discusses new research showing how the climate crisis will affect today’s youth. And Bill McKibben highlights why we can’t afford to delay in reining in catastrophic climate change. – But Damian Carrington reports on fossil fuel extraction projections which far exceed
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On choice giveaways
There’s been plenty worth criticizing about Scott Moe’s combination of laughable demands of the federal government and refusal to take responsibility for anything his government is doing at home. But let’s take note of yet another example of the Saskatchewan Party’s fanatical focus on freebies for resource exploiters with no
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that Canada needs to do its part to avert as much of the impending climate breakdown as can be avoided. – Chris Kennedy rightly points out that Canada’s responsibility includes the fossil fuels we’re subsidizing
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jeremy Rifkin sets out how Canada can implement a Green New Deal – while also reminding us of the costs of failing to do so. And Brett Dolter charts the path toward net zero emissions from Saskatchewan’s perspective – even as Scott Moe’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unreliable suppliers
There’s been plenty of bluster between Jason Kenney and Yves-Francois Blanchet over equalization and its relationship to the oil industry. But it’s worth pointing out that to the extent Quebec (or any other province or jurisdiction) currently relies on fossil fuels from Alberta, Kenney himself has gone out of his
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Iron March Leak: Bernie Miller, Dimitri Balitsky, and Teaser
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Chris Hedges writes about the damage oligarchs are doing to humanity and the planet. And Dominic Rushe points out how whiny the people who have rigged the economy toward their own concentration of obscene wealth become when they face the slightest hint
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Williams’ Defence of Bill 207
In today's Calgary Herald, UCP MLA Daniel Williams has published a defence of his recently introduced legislation on Bill 207. I've already discussed my concerns after reading the First Reading draft of this legislation here. The head of the Alberta Medical Association has stated that the legislation is unnecessary, and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – PressProgress highlights the latest example of the obscene concentration of wealth in Canada, as a mere 45 people own more than the GDP of over half the country’s provinces and territories. – Paul Precht dispels any myth that Alberta’s anti-tax ideology has anything
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Tame Impala – Patience
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Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents alike stand to benefit from a shift to clean energy – including through the solar industry which was so abruptly
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Dayen highlights a rare moment of honesty from the payday loan sharks in their recognition that fair wages would reduce the consumer desperation underpinning their business model. And Brendan Greeley discusses the wealth tax – the merits of which are only
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how Scott Moe has been left alone and isolated by the supposed “resistance”. (Though I’ll admit I underestimated his willingness to declare his unthinking support for anything suggested by Jason Kenney.) For further reading…– Jacques Poitras reported that Blaine Higgs’ sensible response to the federal election has been
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On rejected applications
Let’s see what Scott Moe is demanding from the federal government now… On the immigration file, one goal is to “assert provincial control over the [Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program] (SINP).” Interesting. Now, there’s certainly reason to question Moe’s governance in a lot of areas. But surely he wouldn’t be so
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Iron March Leak: Forum Moderator MOONLORD Was Former Calgary Blood & Honour Member, Active Canadian Forces, Supported Atomwaffen, and Apparently Selling Weapons to French Far-Right
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Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Travis Patron, Leader and Founder of Neo-Nazi Canadian Nationalist Party, Arrested: Charged With Assaulting Two Women
Samantha Craggs, a journalist for the CBC in Hamilton, ON, has just posted this: The founder & leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party has been arrested in connection with attacks on 2 women in Regina https://t.co/saz5LojNu5 — Samantha Craggs 🎃 (@SamCraggsCBC) November 13, 2019 Police were called to the 1900
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – PressProgress examines the damage Doug Ford wants to inflict on children in Ontario’s education system. Fareed Khan calls out the right-wing politicians acting like spoiled children rather than responsible decision-makers. And Rick Smith discusses how to develop public policy to withstand the vandalism
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