Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – John Paul Tasker reports on the final report of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. And Kenyon Wallace highlights the need for meaningful federal action in response – though if the Libs are deviating at all from their usual
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeff Stein reports on Bernie Sanders’ plans to transfer power from capital to people. And PressProgress highlights the Saskatchewan Party’s continued reliance on corporate funding from outside the province. – Ron Walter recognizes that Scott Moe’s carbon tax posturing is purely a
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ian Austen discusses how Justin Trudeau plans to offer nothing but more of the same broken promises and favoritism for the Libs’ corporate benefactors. And Mike Smyth examines what’s set to be unearthed in British Columbia’s money laundering inquiry – which of
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katharine Hayhoe offers some suggestions as to how to reach people in talking about climate change. Karine Peloffy writes about the growing mobilization of support for real action to avert climate disaster, while Roy Culpeper comments on the importance of Canada participating
Continue readingThings Are Good: Birch Bark Coffee Provides Drinkable Water
Coffee production takes a lot of water and produces a wonderful bean filtered drink at the end. In Canada many aboriginal communities are suffering from a lack of potable water let alone good coffee. The plight of these communities enrages Canadians since one of the wealthiest nations in the world
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right to housing is met regardless of whether one’s community is urban or rural: While the trigger events that cause homelessness
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry discuss the responsibility wealthy countries bear for increasingly severe weather events – as well as the best way to start bearing an appropriate share of the resulting human and economic costs: In all this inequality, the world’s
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Here, on how the federal Liberals and provincial Saskatchewan Party are both unduly concerned with optics around “balance” rather than budgeting for the good of their constituents. For further reading…– Pamela Palmater writes that the Libs’ budget continues to neglect Indigenous women and children. Katherine Scott points out the absence
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Luke Savage comments on the need for progressive leaders to stand up to the interests of the uber-wealthy, rather than promising them that nothing will be done which could possible improve the position of the public. And Eric Levitz offers a reminder that
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Ducatel discusses how wealth inequality is at the root of continued poverty and deprivation, while Charles Plante notes that anti-poverty strategies in Canada currently serve mostly to capture credit for existing policies rather than to guide the development of new ones.
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that it’s possible to stop climate change in its tracks – but only by beginning to phase out fossil fuel infrastructure immediately. And Ryan Cooper comments on the problems in responding to an immediate crisis with
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Talia Lavin writes about the value of shifting the Overton window to enable serious discussion of higher tax rates on the people who have far more money than they could possibly need: I think about how we view the rich, so often
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Economic Policy Institute charts how government policy is exacerbating inequality in the U.S. And Sam Pizzigati discusses how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading a much-needed discussion about ensuring that wealthy people pay their fair share – and notes that the arguments against a
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Here, on Scott Moe’s apparent view that the only voice which deserves to be heard or amplified is that of the oil industry. For further reading…– Jie Jenny Zou is among many to have discussed the oil industry’s track record of funding science denial in the interest of being able
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Roderick Benns points out the disruptive effect of the cancellation of Ontario’s basic income trial – signalling the importance of being able to plan on a stable source of income. And Jessica Chin reports on an anticipated wave of renovictions to push tenants
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trevor Tombe highlights how equalization actually works – and how the bleatings of Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and other demagogues would serve only to eliminate anything worthy of the name. – Mary O’Hara rightly argues that child poverty in the UK and U.S.
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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 U.S. in its race to the bottom: There is a growing body of evidence that rising inequality is threatening every aspect of our collective well-being
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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 cuts into tens of billions of dollars in share buybacks benefiting nobody other than those who already had the most. And Caroline Haskins writes about
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Here, on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s unapologetic role in trying to minimize the harms of residential schools – to to mention otherwise undermining any attempt at truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. For further reading…– Tammy Robert’s post exposing the recent radio ad is here, with CBC following
Continue readingThings Are Good: Coast to Coast Artistic Billboards for Resilience in Canada
Resilience (English) from MAWA Programs on Vimeo. Thanks to the Resilience art project from now until August art is being shown on billboards from coast to coast in Canada. You can locate billboards near you (or on your travels) via their map. It’s a creative way to use billboards to
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