Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Gerard Di Trolio discusses the need for an active labour movement to respond to the contempt for collective action shared by the Libs…
climate change
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jeffrey Sachs writes that the fight against climate breakdown demands a concerted solution to global problem – rather than political wrangling over…
Payment Is Now Due
For those who don’t want to be saddled with additional costs such as carbon taxes to battle climate change, may I humbly suggest that the price of doing nothing is…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Tom Parkin discusses the contrived war between the Libs’ fake progressives and the Cons’ phony populists: In Canada, under Conservatives and Liberals, income…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Anis Chowdhury highlights how industry-wide bargaining which avoids a race to the bottom on wages produces improved efficiency as well as a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that there’s no excuse for political choices which leave people homeless – and no reason not to starting…
Why Are We Complacent On Climate Change?
That is the question posed in this Global News report, which offers some interesting insights on the issue. My only quibble with it is that too much emphasis is put…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford discusses the decline (PDF) of Australia’s enterprise bargaining system (and associated lack of wage growth). – Patrick Butler reports on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Hemingway and David Macdonald point out the appalling wealth gap between British Columbia’s privileged few and most of the population. –…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joe Pinsker offers a reminder that the wealthiest individuals are primarily concerned with positional rather than absolute gains – meaning that nothing useful…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Avi Lewis contrasts the real crises which demand our attention against the manufactured ones which are instead promoted by far too many of…
Prab Gill is back in the news, rumoured eyeing Freedom Conservatives, so stand by for another attack on Tzeporah Berman!
Prab Gill is back in the news, offering up the potential for more embarrassment for Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party. Stand by for Mr. Kenney to attack ……
COP24 And The Start Of The Final Battle To Save The Planet
It definitely doesn't look like the ideal place to hold a climate change conference. The Polish city of Katowice, the centre of the country's coal industry. Where even though between…
My grand-daughter was born December 3, 2018
She will not reach 12, apparently, before life on this planet is doomed to be inhabitable for humanity. I take that very seriously. As soon as I became a father,…
My grand-daughter was born December 3, 2018
She will not reach 12, apparently, before life on this planet is doomed to be inhabitable for humanity. I take that very seriously. As soon as I became a father,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dean Baker responds to attempts to paint inequality as an inevitable result of market forces by pointing out the choices being how our…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Nick Saul calls out Doug Ford for undermining the dignity of lower-income Ontarians through barriers and cuts to needed benefits. And the…
The Anthropocene and the New World
In recent decades all but the wilfully ignorant have had to face two facts: that climate change is taking place and that it is the result of what we humans…
This Is What Ontario Has To Contend With
Ontario would appreciate the sympathy of saner provinces: H/t Mackay Recommend this Post
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Larry Elliott reports on another of UK Labour’s proposals to democratize the economy, this time by giving consumers some say in executive pay.…