December 2021

Get Out, Stay Out

An open letter signed by upwards of a hundred Canadian academics calls for the RCMP to leave Wet’suwet’en lands and not come back. The Wet’suwet’en lands are sovereign territory. The…

Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Bump discusses how partisan resistance to public health measures is making it harder for the U.S. to count on vaccinations to limit…

Pandemic Leadership

OMICRON is here. The Trudeau government has learned something about messaging in a pandemic. Althea Raj writes: “The pandemic is not over,” Transport Minister Omar Alghabra reminded the country Tuesday,…

Views on China

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate Isabella M. Weber Routledge, 2021 China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices John Ross Praxis Press, 2021 China’s…

Tapped Out

While southern British Columbia is arse-deep in floodwater, California is tapped out. Water agencies in drought-stricken California that serve 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland won’t get any…

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