Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Valerie Strauss discusses the disastrous effects of corporatized education in the U.S. And Alex Hemingway examines how B.C.’s government (like Saskatchewan’s) is…
Greg Fingas
Into the dark
Apparently provincial finances have joined monthly job reports as areas where if there’s nothing to be spun in the Saskatchewan Party’s favour, Brad Wall is making a concerted effort to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mariana Mazzucato makes the case for a progressive message of shared wealth creation: A progressive economic agenda must have at its heart an…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on the go.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Quiggin argues that public services and corporate control don’t mix – no matter how desperately the people seeking to exploit public…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Owen Jones offers his take on how the UK's Labour Party should proceed following Jeremy Corbyn's most recent leadership victory - and while the…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Tim Harford discusses how insurance and other industries are built on exploiting people who are risk-averse due to the inability to absorb substantial costs…
Deep thought
Memo to those commentators perpetually seeking any available excuse to compare Brad Wall to historical leaders: now would be an ideal time to point out his government's turn toward the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada's longstanding - if far from inevitable - identity as a resource economy is standing in the way of…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Scott Sinclair, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Stuart Trew study the contents of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Sinclair and Trew also highlight why…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Branko Milanovic examines whether the U.S.' tax system is actually progressive all the way to the top of the income spectrum - and…
New column day
Here, examining how Chris Hamby's brilliant reports on the effect of investor-state dispute settlement terms in past trade agreements should inform our choices in discussing new ones. For further reading...-…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Wells argues that climate change and First Nations reconciliation - two of the issues which the Libs have tried to turn into signature…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline escapes.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Arthur Neslen points out how new trade agreements figure to make it impossible for governments to meet their environmental commitments. And Corporate Europe…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Michael Harris argues that it's long past time for the Trudeau Libs to start living up to their oft-repeated promise of real change -…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Andrew Jackson discusses how the rise of right-wing, prejudiced populism can be traced to the failures of global corporate governance. And Dani Rodrik…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz discusses how entrenched inequality and unearned income hurt the economy for everybody:We used to think of there being a trade-off: we could…
In case we didn’t have enough reasons to want Donald Trump to be trounced…
...he's now serving as Brad Wall's latest excuse for climate obstructionism. We'll see if anyone asks the implied follow-up question: whether Wall is actually hoping for a Trump win on…