Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Roland Paulsen is rightly critical of the billionaire-funded take that we should ignore the ready availability of resources to end severe crises simply…
David Climenhaga
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Borosage discusses why we shouldn’t let conveniently one-sided calls for civility silence debate over progressive possibilities. And Alex Ballingall reports on…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig highlights the false promise that a market aimed at enriching billionaires will somehow benefit anybody else. Chris Giles reports on the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Wells weighs in on the far-too-long-delayed exposure of Justin Trudeau’s fundamental phoniness – particularly when it came to his promise that…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jemima Kelly highlights the massive amounts of revenue lost to tax evasion and tax avoidance in the EU – while pointing out the…
Episode 28: An Unconstitutional Dog Ate My Homework
The Friday night bombshell that hit Stephen Mandel and the Alberta Party, the likelihood of Premier Rachel Notley tabling a budget before calling the 2019 election and how much influence…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Both Eric Levitz and Brian Beutler write that U.S. Democrats need to highlight and fight the class war being waged by the rich,…
New column day
Here, on Scott Moe’s apparent view that the only voice which deserves to be heard or amplified is that of the oil industry. For further reading…– Jie Jenny Zou is…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Henry Bewicke charts the worst offenders when it comes to per-capita carbon pollution – with the U.S. and Canada sharing an ignominious place…
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…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda Solomon Wood writes that Canadians need to be wary of fake news being propagated in our midst: (W)e face a continuous,…
Episode 22: Special guest Jamil Jivani, author of Why Young Men
Jamil Jivani joined Dave and Ryan on the podcast this week as we discussed his new book, Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity, and delved into…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Gavin Kelly writes that the UK’s welfare state has been shaped by the Cons to prevent working households from being able to aspire…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Campbell Robb laments the persistence of in-work poverty in the UK – though it’s of course worth noting the reality that poverty…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Don Pittis writes that the disastrous results of the U.S.’ giveaways to corporations and wealthy individuals – including a ballooning deficit which…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bob Lord discusses how the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has pushed beyond even the obscene levels of the Gilded Age.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicholas Shaxson writes that the UK’s disproportionate dependence on the financial sector is akin to the resource curse facing Western Canada among so…
Edmonton Public School Trustees doing their due diligence by asking about UCP education cuts
UCP doesn’t want Albertans to talk about cuts that could come if they form government in 2019 “How are we going to get our province back on course? I’m sorry…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Walkom reminds us that the Libs’s supposed tradeoff of climate policy for pipelines is failing as much in producing the former…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Ed Finn laments the lack of labour coverage in today’s media landscape. But David Climenhaga points out that a combination of the omission…