Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Crawford Kilian draws from Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics to make the case that plagues and the associated responses are invariably political. Adam Miller writes that there’s an opportunity for Canadian governments to build off of low COVID-19 case counts and keep
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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Roni Caryn Rabin, Apoorva Mandervilli and Shawn Hubler discuss the U.S.’ reconsideration of plans to lift COVID-19 recommendations and restrictions in the face of the Delta variant, while Mike Hager points out the expert response to the push by some Canadian premiers to
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Andrew-Gee reports on the likelihood that Canada’s current COVID casualty numbers are a significant underestimate. Sabrina Jones highlights how health professionals are begging for a serious response to the new dangers posed by COVID-19’s third wave, while Crawford Kilian comments on the
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Hunter talks to epidemiologists about Saskatchewan’s pitiful COVID-19 response and the avoidable disease and death that have resulted. Gary Mason warns that we shouldn’t expect to be into a post-COVID period by this summer. And Crawford Kilian writes that not only can
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes about the $47 trillion heist of wealth from the U.S.’ working class to its wealthiest elites. And Umair Haque discusses how Donald Trump is a foreseeable consequence of the U.S.’ structural inequalities, rather than an anomaly within its political system.
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Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes about Tiff Macklem’s attention to inequality and the plight of marginalized people – as well as how it represents a
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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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This and that for your Tuesday evening. – Crawford Kilian examines the UN’s advice on how to keep school safe from COVID-19, while the Saskatchewan Medical Association and Saskatchewan College of Family Physicians (PDF) both urge the Saskatchewan Party start paying attention to what’s needed to keep people safe. And
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian examines a few crucial questions as to what Canada needs to keep, throw away and modify based on the lessons learned from COVID-19. And the Globe and Mail’s editorial board agrees with Kilian that austerity belongs on the scrap heap. –
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian highlights how ongoing inequality is among the many factors leading to stagnant life expectancies in Canada. Jim Stanford points out that tax cuts don’t do anything to help workers facing stagnant wages due to policies designed to leave them under the
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Scott Schmidt highlights how the wealthy have seized any gains in economic growth over a period of decades. Michael Hobbes discusses the “glass floor” keeping the children of rich families from facing any risk of failure. And Crawford Kilian discusses Thomas Piketty’s observations
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In his Arnold Amber Memorial Lecture, Alex Himelfarb offers his take on the dangers of austerity and the loss of collective action: 1. Austerity is toxic.2. It is built on a lie, and on a withered idea of freedom and a hollowed
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Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the gap between the 1% and the rest of us is far larger than most people are permitted to see: (T)here’s also a big difference between being affluent, even very affluent, and having the kind of wealth
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that Canada’s Changing Climate Report should be a loud wakeup call about the need to avert climate breakdown, even as far too many people try to deny there’s a problem or refuse to discuss meaningful solutions. Graham Thomson calls out
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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 tradition of betraying progressive voters: [Pierre Trudeau] wanted to strengthen unions and workers in general — up to a point. It wasn’t to help the
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mike Konczal notes that a single-minded focus on shareholder wealth – exemplified by today’s obsession with stock buybacks – has frozen workers out of any returns from economic development. And Anne Perkins writes about the outrageous gap between the pay of the
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill report on Antarctica’s alarming rate of melting – with three trillion tons of ice lost in the past 25 years. Peter Erickson reminds us that the avoidable greenhouse gas emissions from subsidized oil sands development will only
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Harris discusses the appeal of Jeremy Corbyn’s tendency toward genuine conversation rather than soundbites. And Gary Younge notes that the pundit class’ dismissal of Corbyn has proven to say a lot more about their faulty assumptions than about the prospects of
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- John Clarke discusses the challenges facing social movements trying to resist austerity and push for action on poverty in the face of mushy-middle governments who lack any commitment to those principle…
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This and that for your Sunday reading.- Joseph Stiglitz writes that inequality is killing the American middle class. And Crawford Kilian examines the direct connection between inequality and midlife mortality:For some white Americans born between 1961 …
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