Tuesday Morning LInks
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Wilt examines how Canada lets the corporate sector get away with paying far less than a fair price for our natural…
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Paging King Canute
His lesson needs to be relearned, methinks. Recommend this Post
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Santens writes about the flaw in markets which fail to distinguish between goods and services which lack value, and those which…
The Signs Are All Around Us
How’s that climate-change denial thing working for you these days? It’s so hot in Australia that drivers’ tires are covered in melted tar from the roads pic.twitter.com/eH6enH3jXr — EveryBody vs…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Callahan writes about the U.S.’ billionaire-dominated political system – and why nobody should be satisfied merely with having an ideologically-agreeable set…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Richard Partington reports on new OECD data showing that wages are continuing to soar for the lucky few in the developed world while…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress highlights the Canada Revenue Agency’s long-overdue estimate of the public costs of offshore tax evasion, as well as other new data on…
The Truth About Carbon Pricing
The taxation levels for carbon set by the federal government will likely prove wholly inadequate in getting people to modify their behaviour to combat climate change. However, given the exit…
The Distemper Of Our Times
For one who naturally inclines toward dark brooding, these are not good times. But then, if people follow the news and keep themselves reasonably well-informed about our headlong plunge toward…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Ball offers a reminder that Canada’s immigration system includes the needless detention of children – and that we should be working…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Matt Bruening comments on the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s research showing that minimum-wage workers are unable to afford basic housing across the…
Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
Will wonders never cease? For more analysis, watch this, from Global National. Start at the 11:30 mark: Recommend this Post
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill report on Antarctica’s alarming rate of melting – with three trillion tons of ice lost in the…
Monbiot Trashes NAFTA
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, hates NAFTA. He thinks it a scam perpetrated without the consent of the peoples of Canada, America and Mexico by their political bosses. Monbiot especially detests…
Canada’s plan: do the opposite of what is promised
Delegates from 195 countries met in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a plan to address climate change and “take on a…
Vox Populi
While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian antisocial populism. And Doug Nesbitt…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kenan Malik reminds us of the ongoing importance of unions in fighting for fairness and equality. Frank Witsil reports on a push…
Note To Justin
Because it is 2018, instead of buying leaky pipelines on the taxpayer’s dime, maybe you should enter the modern era and emulate China: Recommend this Post
What Is the Window of "Creeping Normality"?
Think of it as the “new normal” or as Wikipedia puts it: “Creeping normality or death by a thousand cuts is the way a major change can be accepted as…