Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The New York Times’ editorial board highlights how many of the people looking to defend a habitable planet from environmental destruction are being…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bob Rivett highlights the fact that climate protesters are motivated by the desire to save our world from the reckless corporations and politicians…
concentration camp resistance scrapbook
Resistance to the migrant concentration camps in the US seems to be growing. Or maybe I’m just seizing on anything that looks like hope. I wanted to collect all the…
"we don’t actually know what will happen, but know we may be able write it ourselves": rebecca solnit on hope and why it matters
I missed this when it ran in 2017, but I found it when I needed it. Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian: Last month, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden had…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ed Miliband writes that there’s no contradiction between a climate change plan and an effective economic strategy – and to the contrary, they…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jo Davies points out the widespread recognition that Canadian corporations need to pay their fair share for a functional society. And Eric…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – CBC interviews David Wallace-Wells and others about the need for collective action as the only viable response to a climate crisis and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses why we can’t afford another Harper government – but also why we shouldn’t merely accept the Libs as the only…
thank you alex cora and many red sox for doing the right thing
Thank you Alex Cora, Mookie Betts, David Price, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Jackie Bradley Jr., Hector Velazquez, Christian Vazquez, Eduardo Núñez, and Sandy Leon! These players and their manager declined…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robin Sears writes that it’s long past time for Canada’s wealthiest people and corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. And…
Can We Change by 2030?
The timeline of 12 years has stuck to the point that we’re continuing to say it after the first year has passed. We have until 2030, which is 11 years…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Donald Gutstein examines the crucial difference between advancing toward a zero-carbon economy, and incentivizing further fossil fuel development through misleading terms such…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ryan Meili writes about the need for leaders to listen to bona fide activists regardless of their cause – while drawing an…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Roland Paulsen is rightly critical of the billionaire-funded take that we should ignore the ready availability of resources to end severe crises simply…
"if you don’t act like adults, we will": thank you climate strikers. thank you, thank you, thank you.
Friday’s global student protest brought me so much joy. And also sadness, because I often feel so cynical about our ability to stop climate change. And also hope, because I…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nathan Robinson discusses how the language of “meritocracy” is used to entrench structural inequality: The inequality goes so much deeper than that, though.…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews Richard Johnston’s Canadian Party System: An Analytic History, and in the process points out how a sensible federal political system…
walking the walk: if canada is serious about reconciliation, the senate must pass bill c-262
Canadians, contact the Senate. Urge them to work together to pass Private Member’s Bill C-262, “An Act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn and Stacy Anderson write about the lasting effects of racial and regional inequality. – Samuel Stein discusses the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jemima Kelly highlights the massive amounts of revenue lost to tax evasion and tax avoidance in the EU – while pointing out the…