Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your long weekend.- Thomas Walkom highlights the message being sent to students as to what workers should expect in the years to come. And it's well…
corporatism
Parliament In Review: June 22, 2011
The second-last day of debates in this spring's session dealt mostly with Bruce Hyer's motion on small business. But lest anybody think there would be agreement on the details of…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- David Olive chimes in on the toxic effects of inequality:Many of us did not engage in “excess,” yet are struggling to make ends meet.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Jeffrey Simpson laments the Cons' evidence-averse crime policies. But it's worth noting that Simpson is off base on one point: much as he…
Deep thought
If there's any good news in the report that it's apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it's that it should be highly…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don't do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor…
New column day
Here, on how the TILMA's regressive trade rules are spreading across Canada in other forms. For further reading...- I've posted several times before about just some of the problems with…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of…
On correlations
This summer has seen plenty of crowing from the right over a connection between "economic freedom" (as defined by various corporate think tanks) and GDP levels. But for those of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper's inexplicable warnings about Canada's eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jay Bryan weighs in on dangers of increasing inequality and corporate greed:Of course, the corporate mantra is that top executives are making millions because…
Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your review.- Iglika Ivanova calculates the cost of poverty in British Columbia:My findings confirm what we’ve already suspected: poverty comes with a very high price tag. The…
New column day
Here, on the need for Canadian workers to follow Kai Nagata's example in valuing and insisting on the right to express their opinions.For further reading...- Sandra Thomas' rebuttal to Nagata…
If You’re Still Having Trouble Accepting American Fascism is Real
Modern fascism is defined as a unity of political and corporate power. Mussolini picked this up from the self-proclaimed philosopher of fascism, Giovanni Gentile.A similar reality has taken hold today…
On class dynamics
Doug Saunders' post on the political role of the middle class is certainly worth a read. But I'd think the core theory demands some significant tweaking in figuring out how…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Kai Nagata's post on why he quit his job as a reporter is well worth a read in full. But let's particularly note…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Green nicely explains the basic choice to be made in determining what type of economy we want to pursue:(T)he basic tenet of the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Ian Welsh serves up some tough commentary as to whether Canadian voters saddled with unrepresentative and downright destructive governments are merely getting what…
On monstrous effects
One of my personal favourite villains in political theory is the "utility monster". In response to the utilitarian theory that we can simply sum up citizens' preferences to determine what…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- John Crocker points out that the need for secure and sufficient pensions is only made all the more obvious by the abject failure of…