Gas Jobs.jpg A report released today by Food and Water Watch (FWW) titled, "Exposing the Oil and Gas Industry’s False Jobs Promise for Shale Gas Development: How Methodologic...
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Purple Library Guy nicely sums up how the financial industry has become completely detached from anything that could be considered useful in generating real…
Good speech from last week by Bob Rae on the Canadian economy in the global context. It’s short on details, but well aimed in its critique of “ideological islands of…
There is no shortage of angry people with no civics training, calling for Occupy Regina (Wall Street) protesters to “get a job”. As an Occupy Regina protester, I have a…
Koch Fat Cat.jpg During last week’s Americans For Prosperity (AFP) event, a common theme kept creeping into the speakers’ presentations: Dismantle the EPA. And as the major funders of...
Thousands of students marched through London yesterday to protest cuts to public education spending and a significant increase in tuition fees. Here’s one of the organizers, Ben Beech, a 21-year-old…
Canada sheds 54,000 jobs in October The Canadian economy unexpectedly shed 54,000 jobs last month, all in full time positions, sending the country's jobless rate up two notches to 7.3…
Move your money now – put it into gold, silver, and if you can, more importantly, a piece of land that can feed your family, tools for self-reliance such as…
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the…
As the heads of state for the G20 countries gather in Cannes for their annual conference, where the economy will be high on the agenda, I thought it would be…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I'd think it's long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a…
This and that for your Tuesday reading - with an economic fairness theme.- John Burton highlights Saskatchewan's ownership of its own potash resources - pointed out so frequently by Brad…
It should come as no surprise that the Globe and Mail's ongoing paean to high-end charitable tax breaks is apparently linked to a request from the Harper Cons. But perhaps…
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Susan Riley comments on Brian Topp's mention of raising taxes as a necessary price of greater equality and better social programs:(H)owever reasonable, limited or…
I suspect there's still going to be plenty of room for argument as to how much attention we ought to pay to inequality in the development of economic policy. But…
Sun TV’s Michael Coren lambastes the “Occupy” protesters for being “spoiled children of privilege” that are needy, self-indulgent whiners and so on… I have to admit to experiencing a considerable…
“Don’t shit or piss in the park.” It’s not the first thing you’d expect to hear from a city Councillor in an informal chat about Occupy Regina. It’s not even…
There hasn't been as much reporting on the Cons' re-introduction of copyright legislation as there was at some other points when previous incarnations were up for discussion. But Tuesday, October…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- J. David Hulchanski identifies the most important common theme within the Occupy movement:One thing the “Occupy” movement does not lack is a clear…
Gov 2.0: Network Analysis for Income Inequality?
I’ve been thinking a lot about these two types of graphs at the moment. This first is a single chart that shows income growth for various segements of the US…