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Politics and its Discontents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Air Travel, Or Am I Just Another Hypocrite?

Apr

8

2017

Having just returned from a 10-day visit to England, my first and my wife’s third, the hypocrisy of my use of air travel is not lost on me. Well-known as the worst carbon-emitting form of transportation, jets pose a moral dilemma for all of us who claim to care about the environment. However, despite recognizing ...

Montreal Simon: Scott Pruitt: The Roasting of a Climate Change Denier

Apr

4

2017

When Donald Trump is finally driven from office and put on trial, I hope that Scott Pruitt, the climate change denying head of the Environmental Protection Agency, joins him in the box.For the way Pruitt and Trump are gutting the EPA, threatens to poison our air, our Great Lakes, and even our food.And their all out assault on ...

Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links

Mar

29

2017

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Scott Clark and Peter DeVries point out that with interest rates still at historically low levels, Canada would be far better off funding infrastructure for itself rather than locking itself into privatized structures: But that is not true at all at the federal level. The federal government funds ...

Montreal Simon: Donald Trump: When Reality Bites

Mar

28

2017

Donald Trump called his best known book the Art of the Deal. And he has always tried to portray himself in that regard as a genius or an artist. But after his Trumpcare plan went up in smoke the other day.Reality took a big bite out of him, and shattered that image.Read more »

Views from the Beltline: You can’t educate Republicans on global warming

Mar

25

2017

Many progressives believe that if the public were better informed about the science behind climate change, people would be more inclined to accept the reality of anthropogenic global warming. A U.S. survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that’s only true for some people. Climate scientists tell us that global warming will result in phenomena ...

Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links

Mar

23

2017

This and that for your Thursday reading. – In the wake of a thoroughly disappointing budget day at both the provincial and federal levels, it’s worth taking note of Ivan Sigal’s view on the importance of building trust – rather than limiting citizens to either fake news or fake policies: How do we begin to ...

Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links

Mar

22

2017

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Katie Allen reports on the growing gap between the privileged few and the working class in the UK. And Frank Elgar highlights how we all pay the price of inequality, even as our governments can’t be bothered to rein it in: For decades, the IMF, OECD, and World ...

Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

Mar

21

2017

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jo Littler writes about the illusion of meritocracy, and how it has contributed to the unconscionable spread of inequality: Over the past few decades, neoliberal meritocracy has been characterised by two key features. First, the sheer scale of its attempt to extend entrepreneurial competition into the nooks ...

Accidental Deliberations: On pipelines to nowhere

Mar

19

2017

I’ll be taking a look at the individual candidates in the NDP’s leadership race over the next little while. But before I start into that review, I’ll pause to discuss the most bizarre development of the leadership campaign so far. As I noted in reviewing the first debate, Peter Julian’s choice to brand himself largely ...

Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links

Mar

18

2017

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments on the absurdity of Donald Trump’s plan to shovel yet more money toward a military-industrial complex and corporate profiteers who already have more than they know what to do with. – Sara Fraser and Laura Chapin write that food insecurity is primarily an issue of ...

The Progressive Economics Forum: Alberta Alternative Budget 2017

Mar

14

2017

Media Release Foundations for an Alberta Alternative Budget released today (March 14, 2017-Edmonton) Today, a coalition of researchers, economists, and members of civil society released a plan to boost Alberta’s economic growth while reducing income inequality. “For too long Alberta’s public services have been strained from decades of underfunding and reliance on volatile energy markets,” ...

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trudeau’s Second Face Speaks Up For Big Oil

Mar

12

2017

The Prime Minister caught a lot of heat for speaking the truth the other month about shutting down the Tar Sands. Then, predictably after furious backpedaling, he let the other side of his face speak about what the Liberals will really allow to permit our climate’s destruction. “No country would find 173 billion barrels of ...

Politics and its Discontents: Energy Democracy

Mar

11

2017

Sure, many will dismiss this as a Utopian socialist dream, especially given the neoliberal tenor of the times, but are there any other viable alternatives to global degradation and destruction? Recommend this Post

Politics and its Discontents: Energy Democracy

Mar

11

2017

Sure, many will dismiss this as a Utopian socialist dream, especially given the neoliberal tenor of the times, but are there any other viable alternatives to global degradation and destruction? Recommend this Post

Environmental Law Alert Blog: Inviting local governments to demand climate accountability

Mar

10

2017

Friday, March 10, 2017 On Thursday, February 23, Staff Counsel Andrew Gage appeared before the City of Victoria’s Mayor, Lisa Helps, and its Council to talk about climate accountability. This is just one of many conversations we’re having with city councils, councillors, municipal staff and others following up on our January 25, 2017 letter about ...

Environmental Law Alert Blog: Inviting local governments to demand climate accountability

Mar

10

2017

Friday, March 10, 2017 On Thursday, February 23, Staff Counsel Andrew Gage appeared before the City of Victoria’s Mayor, Lisa Helps, and its Council to talk about climate accountability. This is just one of many conversations we’re having with city councils, councillors, municipal staff and others following up on our January 25, 2017 letter about ...

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Up Is Down, Left Is Right, Idiots in Government

Mar

9

2017

These are examples of why the US and Canada cannot have nice things. We’ve idiots in government. Who put them there? Was it voters, or people with even more direct influence like Donald Trump and Stephen Harper? Like having a Surgeon-General who says smoking is not a primary cause of lung cancer. Shocking! https://t.co/eJTQMZl0aM — ...

Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links

Mar

5

2017

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carol Linnitt notes that British Columbia’s provincial pipeline spill map has been conspicuously disappeared by the Clark Libs in the lead up to an election where environmental protection is a major issue. And Kathy Tomlinson is the latest to highlight both the glaring lack of reasonable fund-raising ...

Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links

Mar

5

2017

This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carol Linnitt notes that British Columbia’s provincial pipeline spill map has been conspicuously disappeared by the Clark Libs in the lead up to an election where environmental protection is a major issue. And Kathy Tomlinson is the latest to highlight both the glaring lack of reasonable fund-raising ...

Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Mar

3

2017

Assorted content to end your week. – Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz write that we shouldn’t let governments and businesses off the hook for regressive policy choices by blaming technology. And Ben Tarnoff points out that any effects on the distribution of income and wealth can be dealt with through a fair tax system. – ...

Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Mar

3

2017

Assorted content to end your week. – Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz write that we shouldn’t let governments and businesses off the hook for regressive policy choices by blaming technology. And Ben Tarnoff points out that any effects on the distribution of income and wealth can be dealt with through a fair tax system. – ...

Politics and its Discontents: Bill Nye Attempts To School Tucker Carlson

Feb

28

2017

… but finds he is not an apt student. Recommend this Post

Politics and its Discontents: Bill Nye Attempts To School Tucker Carlson

Feb

28

2017

… but finds he is not an apt student. Recommend this Post

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Feb

27

2017

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC reports on Nav Persaud’s research showing how universal prescription drug coverage could produce improved health outcomes for a lower cost. But Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew note that the Libs are instead taking us in the opposite direction with a combination of trade deals which tie governments’ ...

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Feb

27

2017

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC reports on Nav Persaud’s research showing how universal prescription drug coverage could produce improved health outcomes for a lower cost. But Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew note that the Libs are instead taking us in the opposite direction with a combination of trade deals which tie governments’ ...