#YEG2016 Followup Links
While there's been plenty of ill-informed commentary since the NDP's convention last weekend, I'll take a moment to highlight a few of the followup points which deserve a read.- Joshua…
Greg Fingas
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Alexander Panetta reports on the G20's agreement on the need to crack down on tax evasion - as well as the steps Canada…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne writes about the need for a Bernie Sanders in Canada to highlight and oppose the privilege of the wealthy few:It is in…
Musical interlude
Paul van Dyk - Time of our Lives
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- George Monbiot discusses how neoliberal ideology has managed to take over as the default assumption in global governance - despite its disastrous and readily…
A place for discussion
Following up on yesterday's column, I'll expand somewhat on some of the decisions the NDP may want to consider as (or before) it elects new leaders. And since the recent…
New column day
Last week, I wrote that the NDP should be careful about assuming that changes in leadership would necessarily help in a needed process of party renewal.Obviously, both elected to seek…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Ontario Association of Food Banks discusses the long-term damage done by childhood poverty and deprivation:When facing a very tight budget, food is often…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lookout cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Star makes the case for a new crackdown on Canadian tax cheats to not only merely recover money withheld, but also to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Hinkel writes that for as much attention as global inequality has received in recent years, it may be significantly more of a…
Choose your progressives
Choose your drug policy: harm reduction...#CdnPoli #HarmReduction "@VanAlias: #NDP2016 passed this. pic.twitter.com/D6nkKaTAi9"— Susan Gapka (@SusanGapka) April 9, 2016 ...or harm retention.
Spun out
Sadly, there are far too many half-baked outside arguments being made about the federal NDP's leadership review and how it connects to provincial-level choices. (To be clear, I contrast those…
Musical interlude
Deftones - Prayers/Triangles
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Angella MacEwen discusses how most of what's sold as "free trade" serves mostly to hand power to the corporate sector at the expense of…
Up for discussion
Kady O'Malley has already highlighted a few of the noteworthy resolutions (PDF) submitted to this weekend's NDP policy convention. But I'll point out a few more which look to me…
New column day
Here (via PressReader), on the leadership choices facing the federal and provincial NDP - and why neither should be too quick to assume that changing leaders will necessarily help to…
On performance reviews
Following up on this post, I'll weigh in with my own take on the federal NDP's leadership review - based primarily on the question of what Tom Mulcair seems to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- In the wake of the Panama Papers, Don Pittis writes that tax shelters serve only to ensure that the wealthy don't pay their fair…