Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Quirks & Quarks examines the potentially devastating effects of a dilbit spill on British Columbia’s coast. And David Climenhaga warns that Kinder Morgan…
April 2018
The price of success for Netflix.
As Netflix keeps adding to millions of subscribers, so do the costs to customers. There is no free lunch and what started as the poor man’s alternative to network programming…
Don’t Believe It
California Governor Jerry Brown visited Ontario this week. He’s worried that the province will back track on its promise to fight climate change. Tom Walkom writes: The governor has harnessed…
Our Self-indulgence Is Coming Home To Roost
Fifty years for a Styrofoam cup to break down. Four-hundred-and-fifty years for a water bottle. Those are but two disturbing facts you will glean from this very disturbing report on…
Death knell for net metering
BC Hydro fears the amount of power fed to the grid by participants in net metering will expand substantially. As a result, this week the utility announced they intend to…
Musical interlude
The Stills – Hands On Fire
Sometimes, you don’t get what you pay for
$70,000 a month, for example. "I think people think Doug Ford is a bit of a dick," said Liberal campaign co-chair David Herle on CP24. (Corrected from earlier tweet after…
The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon David Webber Harvard University Press, 2018 In her 2016 book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age,…
Council kills Collingwood construction
Collingwood council – dominated by The Block – has voted to cripple the booming construction industry in town. A bylaw passed this week prohibits, “…operation of construction equipment to Monday…
Ten things to know about the 2018 Saskatchewan budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ blog post about the recently-tabled Saskatchewan budget. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -This year’s budget was quite status quo. -Last year’s…
Words Versus Deeds
Our Prime Minister, always keen to appear as a progressive on the international stage, is decidedly less so at home, as recent events are demonstrating. Another reminder of the gross…
Zakaria – America’s "Deep State" Exists and Americans Should Be Grateful
America’s “deep state” exists and Fareed Zakaria says Americans need look no further than people like Robert Mueller and James Comey to find it. One of the oft-repeated criticisms of…
Kinder Morgan’s Canadian Executives Earn Millions As Governments Discuss Bailout
Ian Anderson, president of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd., must be laughing all the way to check on his stock options since the Trudeau government offered to use public funds to…
Missing Monbiot
George Monbiot rose to fame and acclaim as The Guardian’s fearless enviro-scribe, eventually expanding into a broader societal punditry. This scribe would eagerly await Monbiot’s next offering to see what…
The Day the Con Media Exposed Its Shameful Bias
When Doug Ford announced that his campaign bus would not be followed by another one carrying the media, there was a chorus of complaints.But as I wrote the other day,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress crunches the numbers on tax loopholes and finds that more and more revenue is being lost to the most glaring loopholes every…
Ontario Liberals in third place, would get seven seats: poll
Boy, I sure am glad the Wizard is in charge, and getting all the big bucks! What a great job he and his boss have done! Snippet: The Ontario Liberals…
Snake Oil Isn’t Selling These Days
Paul Krugman writes that, in the United States, snake oil isn’t selling like it used to. Exhibit A is Donald Trump’s tax cuts. George Bush touted the same snake oil…