Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Matt Bruening comments on the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s research showing that minimum-wage workers are unable to
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Politics and its Discontents: Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
Will wonders never cease? For more analysis, watch this, from Global National. Start at the 11:30 mark: Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill report on Antarctica’s alarming rate of melting – with three trillion tons
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Monbiot Trashes NAFTA
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, hates NAFTA. He thinks it a scam perpetrated without the consent of the peoples of Canada, America and Mexico by their
Continue readingIn-Sights: Canada’s plan: do the opposite of what is promised
Delegates from 195 countries met in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a plan to address climate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Vox Populi
While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kenan Malik reminds us of the ongoing importance of unions in fighting for fairness and equality. Frank
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Note To Justin
Because it is 2018, instead of buying leaky pipelines on the taxpayer’s dime, maybe you should enter the modern era and emulate China: Recommend this
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Is the Window of "Creeping Normality"?
Think of it as the “new normal” or as Wikipedia puts it: “Creeping normality or death by a thousand cuts is the way a major
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Enzo Dimatteo offers a reminder of Toronto’s disastrous experience with the Ford governance model, while Edward Keenan worries
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ontario Electricity Sector V – What they knew, and when they knew it…
Last month I published a full-length article in the “The Monitor” magazine providing a “how we got here” analysis of the Ontario electricity sector and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: An Obituary for a Planet? "Climate Change Has Run Its Course" – WSJ
Has the plutocracy outwaited the climate change issue? According to the Wall Street Journal the global political caste has lost interest in the whole carbon emissions
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: His Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking
Perhaps he is counting on a fawning international press and a somnolent Canadian public. Perhaps he is counting on those who put partisan loyalties above
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "Iceberg, Dead Ahead!" Trudeau’s Multi-Billion Dollar Pipeline Blunder.
The J. Trudeau Memorial Pipeline could be transformed into a multi-million dollar blunder, swept away by a bursting carbon bubble. We’ve been warned about the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Anthony interviews Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett about their new book on the connection between inequality and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Funny Thing Is – It’s Here and What Have We Done to Adapt to It?
You might not have seen video of the dramatic flash flooding that swept the historic town centre of Elliott City, Maryland, but that doesn’t matter.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our Naked Prime Minister
Disingenuous, Dishonest, Cynical. Calculating. Choose any or all of those adjectives, and you will have an apt assessment of Justin Trudeau and his decision to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "The Greatest Threat Facing Mankind" – Not That You Would Know It, Not In Canada.
“Climate change is still moving much faster than we are.” That’s the pitch from UN climate change czar, Antonio Gutteres. “Scientists are now worried that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Second ‘Thousand-Year’ Storm In Two Years
Try telling the people of Ellicott City, Maryland, that climate change is a hoax. The Washington Post, in a detailed analysis of this flood, has
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