Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – As affordability takes a central place in most Canadian election campaigns, Kofi Hope and Katrina Miller propose a definition based on public health:…
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A Re-examination of An Old Story: Jake Logan Findell
It has been more than a year since Ricochet published a piece linking a UCP staff member to an overly racist online military surplus store: Adam Strashok (left) with former…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rachel Shabi writes that UK Labour’s plans for universal social investments would be both more compassionate and more efficient than the Conservative-created tearing…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Abby Innes writes that the UK’s general election reflects a decision point as to whether to discard neoliberalism to serve the public, or…
Musical interlude
Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
Who Are Atalante? A Deep Dive Into A Quebec Hate Group
This article was actually commissioned back in October but I decided to publish it here now. Up to this point I haven’t written a great deal about Atalante owing in…
Patrik Mathews in United States: Training Base Members in Georgia
Well this is less than reassuring: Scoop: @MackLamoureux, @ZacharyKamel and I learned from sources that neo-Nazi terror group The Base are hiding Patrik Mathews, the missing Canadian ex-soldier with explosives…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the fallout from the ideology of constant privatization – and a precedent from Canada’s past as to how…
Those who will not hear
Since the Saskatchewan Party tried to push nuclear power when first elected to office, it’s heard from the public about their grave (and justified) concerns. Overall, while there is some…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian highlights how ongoing inequality is among the many factors leading to stagnant life expectancies in Canada. Jim Stanford points out that…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Dormant cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rupert Neate writes about the twelve-figure tax avoidance by the U.S.’ largest tech firms, while noting that Amazon stands out as the…
Fraser Institute Claims That Alberta Public Sector Employees Are Overpaid
The Fraser Institute is notorious for pushing a hard right, neo-liberal, approach to economic and fiscal policy. In my experience, their methods are at best sloppy analysis and at worst…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Will Hutton discusses how the U.S.’ monopolistic economic system threatens anybody who becomes subject to its whims. And Eric Levitz points out how…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes that contrary to the dogma of budget scolds, the truly reckless course of action is to fail to invest…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olivia Bowden reports on new research showing that the harmful health effects of air pollution are even worse than previously known. – But…
Musical interlude
Meg Myers – Running Up That Hill
ARC Celebrates 12 Years on Blogger: Some Big Changes In The Works
NOTE If you are considering supporting ARC’s work financially, we have a Patreon account. It was 12 years ago that I posted this message to what would become one of…