Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chris Arnold reports on the many Americans facing the impossibility of paying for the necessities of life as supports run out in the midst of a pandemic. And Carmina Ravanera and Sarah Kaplan point out that expanded EI and child are are among
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Views from the Beltline: The pecten transitions
All those years ago when I earned my keep in the oil patch, I was fortunate to toil for Shell Canada. I was paid well, enjoyed generous benefits and excellent training opportunities, progressed successfully and made lifetime friends. Furthermore, I always felt I worked for a responsible company, including environmentally.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nicole Mortillaro notes that the reduction in pollution due to COVID-19-related shutdowns isn’t keeping 2020 from being either the hottest or second-hottest year on record. Nina Chestney reports on new research showing that our current fossil fuel economy is utterly incompatible with
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Charlie Smith talks to Robert Hare about the increasing concentration of corporate control – and deterioration of the public’s capacity to provide a needed counterweight – in the decades since The Corporation was released. – PressProgress exposes the hundreds of thousands of dollars
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Can Reduce Net Carbon Emissions By 20,000 Tonnes A Year
Date: Sep 15, 2020 | Rob Fullerton | more articles by this author >> North Cowichan can reduce net carbon emissions by 20,000 tonnes/year by replacing logging of the Six Mountains Forest with Read more… The post North Cowichan Can Reduce Net Carbon Emissions By 20,000 Tonnes A Year
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Scott Schmidt writes that it’s inevitable that a government (like the UCP) which sees cruelty as the point of governance will reflect that attitude in its actions. – Kate Aronoff points out the destructive alliance between corporate Republicans and the likes of QAnon
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Hemingway and Michal Rozworski both study both how Canada’s wealthiest few have enriched themselves through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and discuss how more fair taxes would ensure they don’t exploit a public health emergency to even further entrench their
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Roberts examines a few of the ways to conceptualize the share of responsibility for climate change. And while the most crucial reality is the need for everybody to take steps (and not just incremental ones) to avert a climate breakdown, Vernon Loeb,
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell makes the case for the federal throne speech to be ambitious in dealing with our concurrent crisis of public health, climate breakdown and inequality. But Karl Belanger writes that all signs instead point to the Libs using the opportunity to play
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Diane Peters discusses how everybody has a stake in the safe reopening of schools this fall. And Masks4Canada is tracking cases of school infection across Canada while Support our Students does the same for Alberta in particular – though Don Braid rightly questions
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses the divides which have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. And Anand Giridharidas talks to Varshini Prakash about how a plan to deal with the climate crisis will contribute to solving many of the other issues we’re currently
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Importing From China, Part Two: We Need A Green New Deal, Not An Orwellian Police State
What is the state of China and the West? Here is a brief synopsis and overview. This much, at least, should be perfectly clear: switching off fossil fuels – with a full speed, WWII level effort – is urgently required, and renewables are the clear answer, along with the even
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian takes a look at Kurt Andersen’s new book on the collaboration between massively wealthy people and those willing to be subjugated to their interests who have re-engineered society for their benefit, to the detriment of everybody else. – Oren Cass
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Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that we shouldn’t let distractions about population divert our attention from the role the wealthiest and most privileged few have played in causing (and profiting from) our climate breakdown. – Kate Kelly writes that private capital is once again wringing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jennifer Robson examines the lessons we should learn from EI’s failures which required a less-onerous and more-widely-available income support system to bail Canadian workers out through the coronavirus pandemic. – Michael Harris surveys some of the actions of governments – including that
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Vegan, vegetarian, keto, paleo, omnivore: ethics & ecological realities
Black and white thinking must go. Clannish thinking must go. Refusal to question or change, must be overcome. Factory farming must be banned. Agriculture and food must go organic. Industrial agriculture has been an ecological and public health catastrophe. Free range organic is a must, if you eat animal protein.
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: “Take Canada Back” ?!?!?
“Take Canada Back” to when/what/where, etc., exactly?!? ICYMI Erin O’Toole is the newly-minted leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Erin O’Toole ran on a leadership campaign platform that courted nationalists and populists, AKA hate/fear-mongering, racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, etc. pieces of garbage. Erin O’Toole’s leadership campaign slogan? “Take Canada Back”.
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kim Siever writes about the consistent choice of right-wing governments to use anti-tax rhetoric to goose corporate profits at the expense of the public. Jeff Rubin rightly questions why Canada’s tax system is set up to favour passive and inherited wealth over productive
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Can Trump’s environmental mischief be undone?
Of all the damage that Donald Trump has managed to do in the last four years, the most serious is his assault on the environment. Aside from pulling his country out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, he has rolled back environmental regulations in the U.S. at a breakneck
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Block writes that Chrystia Freeland and the Libs have a golden opportunity to build a more equitable society in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic – though the onus is on them to demonstrate (and on the rest of us to ensure)
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