Macron and the challenge of France’s ‘industrial emergency’ – Equal Times
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July 2017
Has the EU sacrificed human rights on the altar of austerity? – Equal Times
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In Venezuela Bus TV is the Free Press
Venezuela has been witnessing a massive crackdown on journalism and public dissent under the current government (not that the previous government was much better). Mass protest happen daily throughout yet…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 11, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know “use it or lose it” vacation policies…
Steve and Jared’s Excellent Afghanistan Adventure
Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, Trump strategist and son-in-law respectively, think they know how to win in Afghanistan – mercenaries, lots of them, in fact nothing but mercenaries. The two…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kate Aronoff writes that in addition to being a political loser, corporate-friendly centrism is extremely dangerous in allowing for far less than…
The Trump smoking gun
From the New York Times: Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in…
Exactly What They’ll Do
Donald Trump Jr. is proving the truth behind the old saw that the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. The New York Times reports that: Before arranging a meeting…
An Open Letter to Greater Sudbury Council Regarding a Kingsway Entertainment District
The following is an Open Letter to Greater Sudbury Council Regarding a Kingsway Entertainment District.—– I am writing today with regards to the recent decision to locate a new community…
Alberta’s Right, Hard Right and Extreme Right.
Former right-hand man for Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney has his “do or die” vote on July 22. It’s his chance to “unite the right” in Alberta. Conservative Party and Wildrose…
Heretics and Believers
Peter Marshall’s Heretics and believers: a history of the English Reformation from Yale University Press (2017) arrived as a belated birthday present on Friday past. It’s proven to be well…
I Suppose We’ve Got It Coming
New research confirms that Earth’s sixth mass extinction is underway and it’s further along than we imagine. One of the first five was caused by a major asteroid impact. The…
How Hot, Too Hot? How Soon, Too Hot?
There’s an article in New York Magazine for those who still haven’t slaked their thirst for all things apocalyptic. David Wallace-Wells introduces the reader to, “The Uninhabitable Earth.” If your…
The view from different planets: connecting dots between fire and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
PHOTOS: A wildfire in B.C. (Photo: B.C. Wildfire Service). Below: The Fort McMurray Fire (Photo: CBC/Tia Morari); Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (Twitter). Apparently Alberta and British Columbia…
Peace Out Ya’ll!
Well, at least for about a month and a quarter. I’m going to be stepping away from the blog for a while because I was convinced by a sibling that…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Courage Coalition discusses why economic justice is necessary for social equality. But Ed Finn writes that instead, Canada is pushing people into…
Daisy is hiring!
If you are young (at heart), creative, smart, in T.O., political (but not actually too partisan), we want to hear from you. Send your C.V. and cover letter to our…
Republican Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Mitch McConnell • Photo by Gage Skidmore As Republicans attempt to revive a bill to overturn Obamacare, we look at the radical right’s attempt to reshape the role of the…
When feminism’s wonders aren’t for all women
Image distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures The new Wonder Woman film has evoked fulsome acclamations from many American and British women writers: “Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism,”…
Canadian economists support $15, media round-up
53 Canadian economists, myself among them, have signed an open letter in support of the $15 per hour minimum wage. The letter follows on the immense bottom-up campaign in Ontario…