In recent decades all but the wilfully ignorant have had to face two facts: that climate change is taking place and that it is the
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Politics and its Discontents: This Is What Ontario Has To Contend With
Ontario would appreciate the sympathy of saner provinces: H/t Mackay Recommend this Post
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Assorted content to end your week. – Larry Elliott reports on another of UK Labour’s proposals to democratize the economy, this time by giving consumers
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Trish Hennessy discusses the connection between child care deserts and child poverty, while pointing out the importance
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Crazed Climate Change Deniers
I'll never forget how in the dying days of the sinister Harper regime, Joe Oliver, who was the finance minister, suddenly disappeared.And since the economy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In the wake of GM’s abandonment of Oshawa, David Olive suggests that it’s time for Canada to work
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robinson Meyer rightly criticizes the Trump administration for trying to bury a devastating national climate assessment on Black
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews Christo Aivalis’ The Constant Liberal, and discusses how Justin Trudeau is continuing a family
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Assorted content to end your week. – May Bulman reports on the growing gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor in the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Idiot-in-Chief Tweets
But, as usual, he spouts arrant nonsense, designed to be cheered by the equally abjectly ignorant: Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports that the Ford government’s move to strip sick days away from workers was made without
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Katrina Miller writes that Canada’s economic future lies in developing equitable and sustainable growth, not following the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Metaphor For Saskatchewan Politics
This is what it’s like to live in Saskatchewan with Premier Moe. What it's like seeing your carjacker shoot himself in the leg with a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Such Passion
Too bad we can’t muster some of that in North America. Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Evening Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Nick Charity reports on the observations of the UN’s envoy on poverty and human rights that callous and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: I Want a Home Without Fossil Gas
For at least 2 years I’ve said I’d like to build a home that doesn’t have a furnace, and doesn’t have natural gas. There are
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Assorted content to end your week. – Jonathan Watts reports on a new study showing how the world’s largest economies (including Canada) are falling far
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rejecting The Politics Of Expedience
A letter in today’s print edition of The Star by Jack Gallop of Thornhill urges all of us to reject the demagogic politicians who expediently
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Waters and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson report that five large tech companies alone turned the Trump corporate tax
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPotty Cave Men Are Liars
You and Minister Duncan are liars, and are harming Saskatchewan's chance at adapting to #climatechange. Stop fighting the #carbontax, and start making a plan to
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