New column day
Here, expanding on these posts as to what might come next as Canada's political parties map out their strategies on electoral reform.For further reading...- Chantal Hebert wonders whether Justin Trudeau…
Greg Fingas
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Duncan Cameron offers his take on the Paris climate change conference. Martin Lukacs notes that while the agreement reached there may not accomplish…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Karl Nerenberg weighs in on the Libs' choice to direct billions of dollars toward higher-income individuals, rather than working to help Canadians who need…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Collapsed cats.
On blockages
Yes, Bill Tieleman, you've left no doubt that people who are opposed to electoral reform generally are also in favour of a needless and convoluted referendum process to try to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Yglesias rightly points out the absurdity of monetary policy designed to rein in at-target inflation at the expense of desperately-needed employment. And…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Roshini Nair reviews Jim Stanford's re-released Economics for Everyone, with a particular focus on the need not to give up on the prospect of…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Joseph Stiglitz writes that inequality is killing the American middle class. And Crawford Kilian examines the direct connection between inequality and midlife mortality:For…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne discusses Jordan Brennan's research showing that corporate tax cuts have done nothing to help economic growth (but all too much to exacerbate…
Musical interlude
Zeds Dead feat. Twin Shadow & D'Angelo Lacy - Lost You
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Les Leopold rightly argues that financial and political elites won't offer a more fair distribution of wealth or power unless they're forced to do…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Dani Rodrik discusses the evolution of work, and notes that future development and sharing of wealth may need to follow a different model…
On managing the system
Following up on this post, there doesn't seem to be much prospect of the Cons making any effort to pursue proportional representation as an alternative to a ranked ballot if…
New column day
Here, on how the Libs' first major budgetary choice has been to continue the Cons' dangerous pattern of chipping away at the federal government's fiscal capacity.For further reading...- Scott Clark…
On earned media
Ideally, a new Parliament should have the opportunity to talk about issues of far more direct significance and practical value than keeping even offensive speech such as Donald Trump's out…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich suggests that government should respond to corporations who engage in anti-social activity such as moving their earnings offshore by making sure they…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Couched cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David MacDonald offers some alternative suggestions that can do far more to reduce inequality and boost Canada's economy than the Libs' upper-class tax…
Priorities
The Libs' top 10% tax giveaway will cost a total of a previously unbudgeted $1.2 billion per year. And that apparently hasn't caused anybody to think twice about whether it's…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Bryce Edwards comments on the politics of inequality in New Zealand, while noting that there's a huge gap between talk and action:Could the political…