Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Claude Lavoie examines the problems with the far-too-rarely-questioned assumption that public policy needs to be oriented toward top-end economic growth at the expense of human well-being and environmental sustainability. – George Monbiot calls out how the wealthiest few have torqued the law to
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexander Haro reports on the scientific recognition that 2023 stands to be by far the hottest year in recorded human history (even compared to the elevated temperatures of other recent years). And Kate Aronoff wonders when the general public will start waking up
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You’ll Pay For Climate Change One Way or The Other.
One thing climate change will probably bring you is higher insurance premiums. Last year Canadian insurers forked over $3.2-billion in payouts, a record. For the first time, flooding-related claims exceeded fire losses. Calgary flooding losses hit $1.7-billion. Toronto’s flooding set an Ontario record of $940-million. Insurance companies aren’t in the
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Denial Is Not Affordable
While dirty energy continues to rake in record profits, the rest of us are going to be paying a higher and higher price for our governments’ inaction on climate change. Up here in Canada recently we’ve had the worst flooding on record in both Calgary and Toronto. And in Colorado
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Why Health Care Should Be Privatized
It would be a risky claim to suggest health care should be privatized while education, from preschool to post-secondary, should be fully publicly provided, but considering the importance of education, what’s really risky is that currently we have it the other way around. To compare the importance of health care
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The case of the tankers and the missing insurance money
Thursday, January 24, 2013 Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand its oil pipeline from Alberta’s Tarsands to Burnaby will dramatically increase the number of oil tankers passing through the Salish Sea, and increase the likelihood of a spill. But if and when there is a spill, the insurance funds available –
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: EI Isn’t Perfect & That’s Why Reforms Are Wrong
Employment Insurance isn’t perfect, and that’s why the Conservative reforms are wrong. EI’s very purpose is to give money to people without jobs, it is a program that gives the unemployed incentive not to find work. The only reform that will ever fix that is getting rid of EI, anything
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Of June and High Water
British homeowners have been told they’ll have to fend for themselves come June when their government’s agreement with Brit insurers for provision of flood coverage lapses. Insurers are reacting to what they consider a refusal by the austerity-obsessed Cameron government to honour its obligations to improve flood defences. The agreement,
Continue readingLeft Over: Limbaugh- America’s Sweetheart
All over Canada and I suspect in the US as well, there has been much talk and speechifying about bullies…. Limbaugh has just said some unforgivably stupid and ugly things about a legal student who spoke at a hearing on insurance coverage through the workplace for birth control…but I didn’t
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