Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Caroline Plante reports on Quebec's scourge of medical extra-billing and user fees (as identified by its own Auditor General). And Aaron Derfel notes that…
Greg Fingas
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Frank examines how market outcomes are shaped disproportionately by luck rather than significant differences in merit:(W)ith each extension of the highway, rail,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Carolyn Ferns writes that a long-awaited child care program would represent the best possible Mother's Day gift for Canadian families.- Danyaal Raza and Ritika…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- David Akin reports that MPs from multiple parties are rightly challenging offshore tax evasion - though it remains to be seen how many…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- David Rosen discusses the connection between poverty and more general social exclusion:Poverty is a form of social powerlessness. The poorer you are, the weaker…
Musical interlude
CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Crane identifies the good news in the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report on climate change - which is that we can meet our greenhouse…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jim Dwyer writes about the cumulative effect a childhood in poverty has on individual development. And Lee Elliot Major calls out the self-perpetuating…
New column day
Here, contrasting Brad Wall's giveaway of public money to subsidize take-out meals against his choice to make healthy food less accessible to the people who need it most in Saskatoon's…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich discusses how our economy is rigged so that the self-proclaimed risk-takers actually can't lose:I don’t want to pick on Ms. Mayer or…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Yard cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Parkin writes about the growing divide between the lucky few who are siphoning wealth out of Canada, and the mass of people…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Ben Schiller talks to Joseph Stiglitz about the link between technology and inequality - and particularly the lack of current incentives to work on…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Robert Frank comments on the connection between recognizing the luck and social support which lead to one's own success, and being willing to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Martin Lukacs highlights the Canadian public's broad support for the Leap Manifesto - and the opportunity available to any party willing to put its…
Musical interlude
Radical Face - Welcome Home
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Michael Klare writes about the future direction of the oil industry - which looks to involve cashing out quickly than building anything lasting:At the…
New column day
Here, on the Conference Board of Canada's environmental report card - and the conclusions we should draw from both Saskatchewan's last-place finish, and the typically appalling response from the Wall…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Allan Woods looks into the pitiful responses to states of emergency declared by First Nations, as well as a decade and a half…