Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian examines a few crucial questions as to what Canada needs to keep, throw away and modify based on the lessons learned…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Edward Xie and Danyaal Raza make the case for a basic services model to ensure people’s needs are met as we recover…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Allison Hanes reminds us that there is no escaping the reality of COVID-19 – and any attempt to take a vacation from the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Shannon Daub. Alex Hemingway and Marc Lee examine the strong consensus among the B.C. public that the recovery from COVID-19 should build…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Gilmore wonders whether we’ll use the lessons of COVID-19 to set up our own “tsunami stones” to prevent future crises. But Tom…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Iglika Ivanova examines who has lost jobs to COVID-19, and who needs public support to be able to return to the workforce.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Radheyan Simonpillai discusses new polling showing how COVID-19 has caused stress on multiple levels. Al Etmanski writes about the importance of continuing to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – German Lopez surveys the growing body of research showing how masks help to slow the spread of COVID-19. John Michael McGrath points…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Patrick Brethour, Caroline Alphonso and Dave McGinn write about the no-win situation facing parents being pushed back to work by governments who…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mariana Mazzucato and Robert Skidelsky propose a new economic framework in which our elected governments actually set priorities and ensure that development is…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – T.M. Scanlon analyzes the dangerous effects of wealth inequality. And Philip Alston discusses how COVID-19 has only exposed an existing pandemic of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald notes that the federal government’s investments in the wake of COVID-19 have been necessary to keep intolerable burdens off of people…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis writes about the emptiness of any discussion of energy options which doesn’t account for the importance of averting a climate breakdown.…
On double insecurity
Shorter Bill Morneau on what his government expects of workers generally: Nobody has a right to expect secure, long-term employment. Shorter Bill Morneau on benefits for workers affected by COVID-19,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sylvia Fuller and Yue Qian weigh in on how working mothers are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic (and a policy…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ari Rabin-Havt argues that any available means of treating COVID-19 need to be viewed as public goods to be made available to all,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonathan Aldred highlights how COVID-19 has laid bare the folly of a neoliberal economic structure which encourages insecurity, fragility and illusions of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump’s insistence on pushing reopening without a plan to alleviate an ongoing pandemic has led to disaster both…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the Libs’ choice to use infrastructure programs primarily to generate massive returns for private investors, rather than ensuring…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Josh Eidelson writes about the fleecing of American labour in general over the past five decades, while E. Tammy Kim discusses the systematic…