Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Galbraith offers a reality check to anybody counting on an immediate U.S. economic bounceback in the midst of an ongoing pandemic:…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christine Berry offers a reminder that protecting public health is absolutely necessary for us to see any economic recovery in the wake…
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…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig writes about the policies which were needed to sustain us through the COVID-19 crisis so far – but whose success can…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David A. Green, J. Rhys Kesselman, Lindsay Tedds discuss some of the complications involved in designing a basic income system. And David…
Jason Kenney’s Miniscule Pandemic Bump
He’s tried everything from rolling up his shirtsleeves and pointing at graphs to quoting Franklin Roosevelt (“we have nothing to fear but fear itself”), but still Albertans refuse to give…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Hilton talks to several progressive economists about the opportunities for change as we manage and emerge from the coronavirus crisis. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ethan Cox highlights how Canada’s wealthiest few are raking in billions in additional wealth through the COVID-19 pandemic, and returning a pitiful…
The Day Kenney Bet $7.5 Billion on the US Election
In September 2019 Jason Kenney began negotiating with TC Energy to invest $7.5 billion in cash and loan guarantees in the Keystone XL pipeline. In March 2020 Kenney announced negotiations…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Through the newly-developed Progressive International, Grace Blakely writes that we don’t have any choice as to whether our future will be planned –…
When Jason Kenney Told Off China and It Backfired
Covid-19 upended everything. No one knows whether the world will snap back to “normal” like an elastic band or be gone forever. Economists, futurists, and historians are all over the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board argues that Canada has put far too few resources toward actually stopping the spread of the…
Plague Update: Are We Going To Give Up?
WHO wants people to be aware that there’s no assured victory against COVID-19. I still think it’s possible to eradicate it, but it will take a global effort that surpasses…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – PressProgress discusses now polling showing that a strong majority of Canadians favour a broad transformation of our society in the wake of the…
NORMAL is Cancelled Due To COVID Pandemic
“Capitalism’s shield has been breached — we can now see its soul,” writes Brad Zarett in a recent article first published in Medium. Brad writes about avoiding the trap of…
Plague Update: Frugality Saves Itself
It’s become trendy to be thrifty. Frugal, even. There’s always been a case for being frugal, but now it’s more apparent to a society facing supply chain disruptions from an…
Leadership in the Post-Pandemic World
It’s been two and a half months since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic; infections and deaths will continue until a vaccine is found. Economists and global thinkers…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur and James Downar warn us against mistaking a temporarily flattened curve for a final victory over the spread…