Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Don Pittis writes about Thomas Piketty’s take that Bernie Sanders may be exactly what the U.S. needs. – Laurie Penny wonders whether we’re yet capable of overcoming the culture of complicity around the powerful men daring the justice system to hold them to
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Finn writes that the Trudeau PMO’s interference on behalf of SNC-Lavalin confirms Canada’s plutocratic rule under Libs and Cons alike. And Carole Cadwalladr and Duncan Campbell report on Facebook’s use of promised jobs to bribe its way out of the regulations
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers her take on the need for Canada to catch up to the rest of the developed world in providing social supports: Canada is sitting at a dismal 17 per cent, down at the bottom of the pack with Ireland,
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Save the SFETC feat. the Sheepdogs – Last One to Leave
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On delayed releases
I’ll have plenty to catch up on over the next few days. But I’ll start by pointing out the background behind what’s become one of the most-discussed stories of the past week on the Saskatchewan political scene.It’s well and good that we’ve eventually l…
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – T.C. Norris points out that one of the most important developing themes in economic research is the recognition that reductions in employment insurance benefits only force job-seekers into damaging situations rather than creating economic benefits. But as we all know, mere facts won’t
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Here, on the philosophical underpinnings of the Wall government’s choice to demolish Saskatchewan’s film industry – and the dangers for the province if we accept them. For further reading…– Bruce Johnstone and Murray Mandryk have already criticized the attack on the film industry as ill-advised purely as a matter of
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