The Review of Keynesian Economics and the Progressive Economic Forum are sponsoring a “Post-Keynesian Summer School”, to be held on the campus of the University of Toronto, June 23-25, 2017,…
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/ http://www.alternet.org/culture/six-most-evil-presidents-us-history http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/many_truths.html the ‘heroic war with mexico.’ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yves-engler/un-occupation-haiti_b_16070764.html Haiti, under its series of American-appointed dictators was, like Cuba, essentially a slave state with tortures and murders a matter…
Friday, June 2, 2017 After a surprising election result culminating in the announcement that the BC NDP and BC Greens will cooperate to bring in a new government, it makes…
20 years ago today. I totally forgot about it. One of my Daisy colleagues reminded me.I would’ve been good at it, I think.
In Canada we’re used to icebergs calved off Arctic ice sheets, especially the Greenland Ice Sheet. They’re seen migrating past Newfoundland every year and have a certain reputation for sinking…
We can only hope. A growing number of advertisers in Canada are feeling the heat for placing ads on The Rebel, a website founded by Ezra Levant as a successor…
As I inelegantly stated in my previous post, Donald Trump tore a hole in the global consensus yesterday when he pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord.…
The world received an unwelcome but important message yesterday. Don’t rely on the United States of America when the chips are down. That post-war trans-Atlantic consensus that has served Europe…
Now that Donald Trump has formally announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, will the efforts of individual states and municipalities be enough to limit the…
This is going to be a very uninteresting blog post to most people, so skip it unless you’re fascinated by Bitcoin or consumer culture, or extreme couponing problems. 2 weeks…
Yesterday, Donald Trump backed out of the Paris Climate Accord because, he said, it was bad for the American economy. Paul Krugman doesn’t buy that argument: About the economics: At…
Let’s recap. The Ontario PCs raised $16 million last year, and the Ontario Liberals – the, you know, government – raised $6 million. Ten million less. The government. The most…
I decided to write this post in response to the usual chatter that is generated, whenever the government decides to impose an increase on minimum wage. Usually, you will hear…
I decided to write this post in response to the usual chatter that is generated, whenever the government decides to impose an increase on minimum wage. Usually, you will hear…
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis discusses the growing price everybody pays for more extreme weather events caused by climate change. And Adrienne Lafrance offers a grim…
A story in last week’s Connection has the headline, “Madigan named chair of Collingwood development, operations committee.” Councillor Madigan has the dubious honour of chairing a standing committee that does…
What? You have never heard of Ontario’s Trillium Party? Just think of founding a new party like the creation of a fine wine. First you have to plant the vines.…
On June 1, 2017, the US announced plans to withdraw from the Paris Accord on Climate Change and took an important first step in fading from existence and relevance.
A few months ago the big German magazine Der Spiegel ran this cover of Donald Trump.With the title "The End of the World, As We Know it."And yesterday when the…
This weekend, WCAI and CCC are holding a protest at Olympic Plaza in Calgary, Alberta (as opposed to the MEGA rally on June 24). But before then ARC would like…
