Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jason Furman discusses how Donald Trump's economic obsessions are in fundamental conflict with one another - meaning that the only result of trying to…
climate change
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Olufemi Taiwo discuss the importance of making the climate movement one that engages our shared humanity. But as a reminder of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford offers a reminder of the problems with treating raw GDP as a proxy for well-being or social development. Dario Radley highlights…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jill Lawrence discusses how the Trump regime's combination of corruption, greed and poor judgment is tearing the concept of the heroic tycoon to shreds.…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Francisco Ferreira discusses the collapse of the existing global economic order - and the need for countries other than the U.S. to take…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Doug Saunders discusses how Trump has made "anti-woke" messaging toxic around the globe by demonstrating how evil and destructive it is in practice -…
Trump’s biggest threat
“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue... The post Trump’s biggest threat first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Avoiding a tariff while saving the climate
Justin Trudeau’s government introduced a carbon-pricing regime with two components: a levy on fuel paid... The post Avoiding a tariff while saving the climate first appeared on Views from the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Nesrine Malik writes about the need for the rest of the world to imagine - and then build - an international order which…
Mayors have their say
A group of 128 municipal politicians have written a letter to the leaders of the... The post Mayors have their say first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Amanda Marcotte discusses how the Trump regime's war on empathy reflects its underlying misogyny, while Andrea Woo reports that Canadian researchers are scrubbing their…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Gil Duran examines the false claim of an "emergency" underlying Donald Trump's tariff manipulations - along with the dangers of allowing a dictator…
Canadian Journalists and Politicians need to see the Super-Conductor Powered Train that is coming down the tracks…
When listening to some journalists or some on the political “Right”, you will hear an oft-repeated argument: why do Canadian governments spend so much money on the automobile industry? Andrew…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Osita Nwanevu writes that Donald Trump has fundamentally changed the story of the U.S. from one of (however unfulfilled) promise to one of chaotic…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Paul Krugman discusses how the U.S.' oligarchy was entirely willing to back Donald Trump as long as he was merely devastating other people's rights…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Daniel Drezner examines how the Trump regime's (nearly) worldwide tariff announcement confirm the complete ignorance and incompetence of everybody involved. Paul Krugman notes…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Julia Steinberg writes about Donald Trump's attempt to impose cataclysm capitalism on the U.S. - and the need for strategic organizing to stop it.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Seth Abramson previews the foreseeable paths toward the breakdown of U.S. civil society in light of Donald Trump's intention to ignore both judicial…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Jim Stanford points out that tariff threats shouldn't be an especially daunting prospect for a Canadian economy which already consists primarily of the production…
The original climate change crisis: Fahrenheit to Celsius
Fifty years ago, Canada made its first tentative but still monumental step towards adopting the metric system. On April 1st, 1975, Canada officially switched from Fahrenheit – the only temperature…