Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump’s insistence on pushing reopening without a plan to alleviate an ongoing pandemic has led to disaster both…
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Review: Sonic Agency
A book concerned with “positioning sound and its discourses in dialogue with contemporary struggles,” that attempts to seek out “ethical and agentive positions or tactics” grounded in “experiences we have…
Review: Sonic Agency
A book concerned with "positioning sound and its discourses in dialogue with contemporary struggles," that attempts to seek out "ethical and agent...
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the Libs’ choice to use infrastructure programs primarily to generate massive returns for private investors, rather than ensuring…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Josh Eidelson writes about the fleecing of American labour in general over the past five decades, while E. Tammy Kim discusses the systematic…
Musical interlude
Shay Lia – Good Together
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Crawford Kilian discusses Rutger Bregman’s work in noting that we can build a better society in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asun…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz highlights how investing in the green economy provides a viable economic and ecological path forward in recovering from the coronavirus…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Hansen reports on new research showing that the U.S. could save 5% of its GDP merely by imposing a mask mandate during…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Twisted cats.
On backward thinking
I’ve previously discussed the telling social budget which saw Scott Moe prioritize golf and pedicures over human well-being. But even if we look only at the Saskatchewan Party’s pre-election fiscal…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jason Markusoff discusses Jason Kenney’s race to the bottom as he uses a pandemic as an excuse to sacrifice yet more public…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michelle Girash and Chandra Pasma write from personal experience about the uncertainty COVID-19 creates for workers. Bryan Borzykowski notes that the needed extension…
On exclusionary measures
Even as Scott Moe and his party have declared they’re determined to let people die on Saskatchewan’s streets for lack of funding, and warned that there’s nothing but further real…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Hunsberger writes that the CERB may be a flashpoint in determining whether the cost of the coronavirus pandemic will be borne…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mark Smolinski writes that wearing a mask to limit the spread of COVID-19 is best characterized as a sign of mutual respect. (But…
Musical interlude
Whale and the Wolf – Touch
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lee Stevens writes that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed longstanding weaknesses in our social safety net which have caused large amounts of avoidable…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Enoch studies how P3 projects result only in public money subsidizing private profits. And a new report from the Canadian Labour…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Richard Shearmur discusses the risk that employers will use an increase in remote work to extract even more value from workers. And Tara…