Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Brethour discusses houw the effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been anything but fairly or equally distributed. And Katherine Scott highlights…
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Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Scott Schmidt writes that it’s inevitable that a government (like the UCP) which sees cruelty as the point of governance will reflect that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David MacDonald examines how millions of Canadians could suffer from being pushed off of the CERB onto EI – both in lost or…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Hemingway and Michal Rozworski both study both how Canada’s wealthiest few have enriched themselves through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin offer an introduction to what they anticipate will be the Turbulent Twenties, while noting the need for the…
On misleadership
When the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, there was relatively little pushback against the most extreme (if necessary) steps which were taken out of a lack of knowledge of the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Christopher Lange studies (PDF) the costs and effects of two dental care options, and concludes Canada would be best served with…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell makes the case for the federal throne speech to be ambitious in dealing with our concurrent crisis of public health, climate…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Scoffield writes that contrary to the spin from corporate mouthpieces, workers have been eager to find work when it’s been available…
Unmaintainable
Particularly as parents face difficult decisions in determining how to handle a return to unsafe schools in the midst of a pandemic, it’s no surprise that the Moe government’s secrecy…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Diane Peters discusses how everybody has a stake in the safe reopening of schools this fall. And Masks4Canada is tracking cases of school…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda Silas writes about the need to invest in improved care and better jobs in order to build a health society. And…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Pittis discusses how the spread of modern monetary theory is challenging some stale assumptions about government budgeting. And Sarath Peiris highlights…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses the divides which have been exposed and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. And Anand Giridharidas talks to Varshini Prakash about…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Harold Varmus and Rajiv Shah write that the CDC’s willingness to parrot the Trump administration’s desire for less COVID-19 testing is forcing…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins write about the mental health consequences of the disasters the world is wrestling with at the moment.…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the need to ensure corporations pay their fair share for the social infrastructure which allows them to thrive. –…
Lessons We Must Learn From COVID-19 to Build a Better Society
Community is the key to the future. Those societies that are fairing best in responding to COVID 19 are those with a strong sense of community. America’s dismal response is…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Hannah Aldridge writes that we should be expecting far more from the provinces in taking care of people in the course of the…