Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Kenan Malik comments on the many forms of classism. And Roderick Benns examines how Ontario’s basic income recipients were able to make use…
climate change
Courage Over Hope
This got a little out of control, so I added in pictures! But there is suddenly tons in the news about climate change, and many excellent videos to watch. Jeremy…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joe Vipond and Noel Keough highlight the gap between the global impetus to avoid climate breakdown and the narrow self-interest of the Alberta…
Think Again, Canada
I sometimes feel that many Canadians are complacent about climate change, assuming that we will somehow be protected from the worst of its effects. As this CTV 2018 weather review…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt McGrath and Dahr Jamail each point out some of the most important immediate effects of climate change. And Kate Marvel discusses the…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Howard Mann discusses the World Bank’s new model for public-private partnerships which deliberately avoids placing any real risk with the profiteers who…
The Climate Year In Review
Go ahead. Tell me that climate change is an unproven theory. Meanwhile, if you live here in Ontario, 2019 will likely prove at least as depressing as the second part…
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…
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…