Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joseph Heath discusses how the Volkswagen emission cheating scandal fits into a particular type of corporate culture: (W)hen the Deepwater Horizon tragedy occurred,…
2015
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, October 5, 2015
Your news links for today: Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement reached – CBC News TPP Negotiations Conclude: What Next for the Trade Deal Without a Public Text? – Michael Geist ELI5…
Trans-Pacific Partnership countries announce agreement reached, posing serious threat to global Internet users
Screen Shot 2015-10-05 at 7.45.41 AM.png Largest and most secretive agreement in the world’s history covers 40% of global trade and contains provisions to censor the Internet and rob the…
Deficit discussion overshadows economic debate Canada needs
Photo by Kevin Dooley The Conservatives have promised balanced budgets and have even enshrined them in law. The NDP is also promising balanced budgets, painting itself as “responsible” with government…
In conversation with Chris Hedges
Photo by Artemas Liu We are living in revolutionary times that are ripe for rebellion. So says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Chris Hedges in his newest book “Wages of Rebellion”…
Strategic voting in Winnipeg (recap)
Those who want to vote strategically in the coming election are often find it challenging to decide which party to vote for. This is again true in the current election.…
Strategic Voting in Winnipeg South: vote Liberal
Winnipeg has become an important battle ground in the recent election. In the last election, in 2011, six of the eight ridings that include part of Winnipeg went Conservative. In…
Be Healthy by Getting Dirty
Hygiene is harming us. The overuse of antibacterial everything and the kill-all solution of antibiotics seems to be doing harm to us. Don’t get me wrong – we need antibiotics…
Will strategic voting make a difference to the outcome of the 2015 election?
This has been cross-posted at iPolitics. Since the 1960s, the Conservative party — in its various identities — has been moving steadily to the right. This has opened a widening…
Will strategic voting make a difference to the outcome of the 2015 election?
This has been cross-posted at iPolitics.Since the 1960s, the Conservative party — in its various identities — has been moving steadily to the right. This has opened a widening gap…
Will strategic voting make a difference to the outcome of the 2015 election?
This has been cross-posted at iPolitics. Since the 1960s, the Conservative party — in its various identities — has been moving steadily to the right. This has opened a widening…
We Aren’t As Good As We Think We Are
If anything, the racism and xenophobia that have become cornerstones of the Harper re-election strategy are showing us something we would prefer not to think about: when provoked, our own…
Strategic Voting in Saint Boniface-Saint Vital: vote Liberal
Saint Boniface-Saint Vital: vote Liberal Tactical voting inSaint Boniface-Saint Vital In recent posts, I suggested that tactical voters in Elmwood-Transcona should vote NDP, that in Winnipeg South Centre, tactical voters…
TPP, and the next two weeks of #Elxn42
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached, via @nytimes #cdnpoli http://t.co/OVinKfZYWD — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 5, 2015 In 1988, an entire election was fought on trade. In 2015, I’d be…
Conscientious Stupidity
https://www.pinterest.com/ Joe Oliver announced at the end of last week that the Canadian economy had grown by 0.3% in July. And he said he doubted we were ever in recession.…
Why Progressives Urgently Need to Expose Stephen Harper’s Lies
I think I can safely say that in all my life I have never seen a person lie so often and so blatantly as does Stephen Harper.For years he claimed…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of October 5, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Revocation of Canadian citizenship: 5 things to know Regina tenant manipulates system to squat for free at landlords’ expense…
Nostalgia for the era of the monster rally.
As the ground game became more important in Canadian politics during the second half of the 20th Century, the monster rallies for the major parties lost their importance. The work…
Conservatives in Canada swing further to the far right – the other two major parties are little better
The Conservative party of Canada is clearly playing into fear, xenophobia and racism as a way to win votes, as its “War on Terror” narrative, its racial baiting and its…
KCCCC Day 64: confirming confirmation bias
Do you know what confirmation bias is? I’m certain you do, because all of my readers are smart. But here it is again, for those who need a refresher: “In…