Looking In The Mirror
A recent Toronto Star piece about climate change chose to explore, not the well-known physical peril it poses, but rather the mental one. Citing a 2012 report from the U.S.…
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On gross excesses
It shouldn't be news to anybody interested in climate change (and the Wall government's role in exacerbating it) that Saskatchewan has a shameful track record in polluting our atmosphere. But…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Andrew Jackson discusses how large inheritance and accumulated capital lead to gross economic and social distortions:Inheritances are quite heavily concentrated among the most affluent…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Carol Goar writes about the need for Canada's federal government to rethink how we view taxes. And Simon Wren-Lewis tries to explain the resilience…
Justin Trudeau, the Oil Pimp, and the Carbon Trap
Well it was a brave attempt. Get the Premiers together in one room to talk about climate change.But when the meeting was over there was little to celebrate. Prime Minister…
This is Canada’s weather on climate change, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Any questions?
Thursday, March 3, 2016 It’s amazing how invisible climate change can be – how we feel...
Justin Trudeau and the Continuing Saga of Canadian Apathy
A recent poll shows strong support for the Trudeau government in Canada, and I have to think, once again, that it is surprising to see that Canadians can be so…
Someone forgot the United Way update again
Shorter Brad Wall:I plan to use every means at my disposal to personally veto any national plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But since somebody mentioned pipelines, the idea of…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Tom Parkin writes about the tendency of far too many Canadian governments to put the wealthy at the front of the line, and leave…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Steve Roth discusses how inequality and excessive concentration of wealth result in less growth for everybody - even as the researchers finding that…
On failed obstruction
I've written several times before that any federal climate change plan was doomed to fail if it allowed Brad Wall a veto over any emission reductions.Well, it appears the Trudeau…
Wall Can’t Cut Pollution? Cut the Crap.
WEYBURN, Sask. – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a federal government cannot tax a provincial government and that might play a role in any potential national carbon tax. Wall says…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Alison Griswold points out how little systemic information we have about the growing gig economy. And both Scott Santens and Richard Reeves make…
New column day
Here, on Brad Wall's preference for unethical oil over sustainable development.For further reading...- Again, Shawn McCarthy reported here on Wall's new declaration that he won't accept carbon pricing or regulation…
Josh Gelernter, Science-y Type Guy
He writes, bitching about The Left, Science, The Earth Centered Universe, Climate Change, and all that:People tend to think that proponents of an Earth-centered solar system were nothing but intransigent…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miles Corak argues for a "second-chance" society to make up for the damaging effects of inequality - though I'd argue that while he has…
Shocked, I say
Surely nobody could have predicted that a federal climate change plan of doing no more than every province would accept would be doomed as long as Brad Wall has anything…
A green NAFTA? Is it possible?
It isn't much but it's promising. Last Friday, Canada, the United States and Mexico signed a memorandum of understanding that could lead to a North American accord on climate change…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Danny Dorling comments on the dangers posed by inequality, while pointing out that it's simple enough to ensure a more equal society as…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Claire Provost writes that corporate trade agreements are designed to make it more difficult to pursue fair tax systems:Governments must be able to change…