Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Paling discusses the reasons why repeated warnings about Canada’s third wave of the coronavirus went largely unanswered. And Rachel Bergen reports on…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sam Cowie writes about the devastating effect of COVID-19 in Brazil, where a particularly dangerous viral variant is combining with the anti-social…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis writes about Janet Yellen’s work to ensure that corporations pay their fair share, rather than being able to structure and artificially…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marieke Walsh reports on the new modeling from the Public Health Agency of Canada which shows how COVID’s variants will foreseeably result in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kamran Abbasi makes the case to treat the avoidable deaths resulting from the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic as a form of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk takes a look at two proposals to get to COVID Zero – including one from Canada and one from Germany. –…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard writes about the cost of complacency in dealing with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Matt Lundy examines Canada’s highly unequal recovery,…
Sunday Afternoon #skvotes Links
The latest from Saskatchewan’s provincial election campaign as election day approaches tomorrow. – A new poll shows the race tightening significantly, including with the NDP holding a significant lead in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lori Fox writes that the COVID-19 pandemic reflects a fundamental break with what had been business as usual – making it essential…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses the dramatically different effects of the COVID-19 pandemic based on inequalities in income and privilege. And Katherine Scott draws on…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Roberts points out that the coronavirus has rendered it imperative to provide supports for people faced with circumstances beyond their control. And…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heesu Lee reports on Greenpeace’s estimate that air pollution costs the world nearly $3 trillion every year. And Damien Cave writes that…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Laura Flanders interviews Naomi Klein about the connection between the climate crisis and inequality – including her recognition that any attempt to address…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your year. – Armine Yalnizyan writes about the ongoing struggle for workers’ rights a century after the Winnipeg General Strike: Most workers have no channels for…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian highlights how ongoing inequality is among the many factors leading to stagnant life expectancies in Canada. Jim Stanford points out that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew MacLeod discusses how an anti-worker campaign at the Mountain Equipment Co-op demonstrates the need for employees to be able to bargain collectively…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – PressProgress offers its annual reminder not to be taken in by the Fraser Institute’s anti-tax spin. And Robert Frank reports that support…
On defining images
I’ve previously linked to Doug Cuthand’s column on the climate obstructionists who are endangering our future. But I’d think it’s worth putting his most powerful conclusion in a form which…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes that the ultimate test of the public’s willingness to facilitate a climate breakdown is fast approaching – but that the…