April 2018

Ugly graphic

…but a beautiful trend line, if you are Mr. Ford or Ms. Horwath. The graphic is a little ugly, but it tells a story that's ugly (if you're a Wynne…

Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Yglesias examines the direct effects of social programs, and finds there’s every reason to invest more in them: Mercury emissions (mostly…

Out Of The Back End

Nothing illustrates the utter hypocrisy of the Republican Party more than the tax cuts which were just passed in the United States. Republicans used to be classical economists. They officially…

One big happy CPC family

Once again proving my theory that Justin Trudeau is the luckiest politician on Earth. Globe story: Conservative MP Maxime Bernier says in a new book that party Leader Andrew Scheer…

Failed Philanthropy.

It was intriguing going through David Callahan’s book The Givers: Wealth, power, and philanthropy in a new gilded age. There has rarely been that much understanding of the failures of…

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