Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin offer an introduction to what they anticipate will be the Turbulent Twenties, while noting the need for the…
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Musical interlude
Louise Burns – Just Walk Away
On misleadership
When the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, there was relatively little pushback against the most extreme (if necessary) steps which were taken out of a lack of knowledge of the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Roberts examines a few of the ways to conceptualize the share of responsibility for climate change. And while the most crucial reality…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Christopher Lange studies (PDF) the costs and effects of two dental care options, and concludes Canada would be best served with…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Upturned cats.
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell makes the case for the federal throne speech to be ambitious in dealing with our concurrent crisis of public health, climate…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Scoffield writes that contrary to the spin from corporate mouthpieces, workers have been eager to find work when it’s been available…
Unmaintainable
Particularly as parents face difficult decisions in determining how to handle a return to unsafe schools in the midst of a pandemic, it’s no surprise that the Moe government’s secrecy…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Patrick Greenfield reports on a new study from the Zoological Society of London showing how wildlife populations are plummeting in the face of…
Musical interlude
Deftones – Ohms
Visionless
Shorter Trudeau Liberals last month, trying to justify shutting down Parliament and setting up a game of Parliamentary chicken over a throne speech: It’s absolutely vital that we talk about…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Diane Peters discusses how everybody has a stake in the safe reopening of schools this fall. And Masks4Canada is tracking cases of school…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Keener cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda Silas writes about the need to invest in improved care and better jobs in order to build a health society. And…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – Gregory Beatty discusses the class struggle as it’s playing out in the time of COVID. Jim Stanford offers a reminder as to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Pittis discusses how the spread of modern monetary theory is challenging some stale assumptions about government budgeting. And Sarath Peiris highlights…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses the divides which have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. And Anand Giridharidas talks to Varshini Prakash about…
Musical interlude
Foals – The Runner