Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Douglas Jang discusses how a bias toward slow and limited government has made our response less effective. Pouyan Tabasinejad points out that…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joshua Schiffer highlights how the best response to COVID-19 for now involves the use of imperfect but easily-applied means of reducing its spread,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee examines the folly of the B.C. Libs’ plan to slash the province’s PST rather than investing in any recovery. And…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matt Gurney laments Ontario’s utter failure to use months of lead time and information from around the world to make any meaningful preparations…
Big Financial Enforcement Failure Leak
BREAKING: The BBC has documents showing that big banks have knowingly laundered $2 TRILLION for organized criminals & dirty billionaires. Ordinary citizens & democratic institutions don’t stand a chance in…
Bitcoin, Fascism, Economic Collapse & Revolution
Fiat currencies are without question going to collapse. There are easily understandable, undeniable, structural reasons for that. That means the ordinary money people use daily, for those who are unfamiliar…
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…
5 Key Points For Understanding The World In 2020 & Beyond
A number of points must be investigated, examined in depth, realized and understood, if we are to understand the events unfolding in 2020 and beyond. A crisis of legitimacy (popular…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – Gregory Beatty discusses the class struggle as it’s playing out in the time of COVID. Jim Stanford offers a reminder as to…
Is Charity Evil
We supposedly live in a major developed industrialized country which is one of the seven most advanced economies in the world, yet: many people depend on charity to be fed…
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…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian takes a look at Kurt Andersen’s new book on the collaboration between massively wealthy people and those willing to be…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that we shouldn’t let distractions about population divert our attention from the role the wealthiest and most privileged few have…
On conflicts of interest
Just a couple of weeks ago, there was a flurry of speculation – and disapprobation – about the possibility that Mark Carney might pursue a political career after having been…
What Alberta’s School Re-entry Plan Teaches Us About Trust
On July 21, the UCP government announced 750,000 students will return to school in September under the government’s re-entry plan Scenario 1. Scenario 1 means in-class learning under near-normal daily…
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada
The economy isn’t performing too well right now thanks to years of thoughtless growth followed by the hit of COVID-19. The people most hurt by the COVID-19 crisis are the…
Canada, Climate Emergency and Economic Cataclysm: A Proposed Response In Brief
Or, On Trolls and Concision, Sound-Bite Culture, and The Importance of Thinking For Yourself (Please see my recent essay, titled, Canada, eh?, for part one of this present meditation)…
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 Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – As the Libs continue to stall on announcing a promised transition from an expiring CERB to a revised employment insurance system, David Macdonald…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on the severe uncertainty facing far too many as the CERB is set to wind down with nothing but vaporware…