Homelessness in Finland
I recently organized a study tour of Helsinki; its focus was affordable housing and homelessness. Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview: https://nickfalvo.ca/affordable-housing-and-homelessness-in-helsinki-finland/
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Stemming the leakage
Taxing carbon emissions is one of the most effective ways of dealing with the climate... The post Stemming the leakage first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
The “coalition of the willing” steps up
Western Europe has long been a fractious place with war a near constant for millennia.... The post The “coalition of the willing” steps up first appeared on Views from the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ryan Meili discusses how we should define Canada as a country through an ethic of care - rather than through opposition to any foreign…
What The World Needs Most
Great discussion, as always, and a great song. (See the link below, to a podcast interview by one of my top three sources.) Now, maybe a song about sisu, the…
Starmer’s Labour: the UK establishment’s supernova
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at Cambridge. Photo by Chris Boland (www.chrisboland.com). Speaking from 10 Downing Street, newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that...
Housing As A Right
Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right but…
Housing As A Right
Should housing be a right. That is the question. But the real question is what would that mean and how do we make it more than a token right but…
Happy birthday, NATO!
This month the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 75th. And any individual would consider themselves fortunate it they were in as good shape. NATO first saw the light of…
A freer Russia for whom?
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Photo by Michał Siergiejevicz/Wikimedia Commons. Alexei Navalny looks directly into the camera. He has a remarkably expressive face, and presently it is expressing concern, skepticism,…
BLOWBACK – And Collapse
JFK, MLK, The CIA – And The Collapse Of The West Yes, the evidence is clear: the CIA killed JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. They are the goons of…
Putting royalty to rest
“The Funeral Ceremony of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Coburg,” by Thomas Sunderland (1818). Image courtesy the National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons. It was hardly surprising…
Monarchs belong in the dustbin of history
“Off With Her Head.” Illustration by Mr. Fish The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in…
Today’s News: Updates from all over
Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX — mrs.LHS ????☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just…
Russia at a turning point?
Photo by Firdaus Omar/Flickr In March of this year, news came from Russia that former Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais had quit his job as presidential special representative for the…
German elections: Change, no change
Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals want to form a government but are unable to come up with a program that would at least point in the direction of fixing…
Affordable electricity Decarbonization in OECD countries? Part I
After eight extensive posts about the Ontario electricity sector, I am expanding my geographic coverage to look at the electricity sectors in selected OECD countries. My focus will be on…
Belarus: Freedom and sanctions in a pipeline country
The petroleum sector is crucial to the Belarusian economy, but US sanctions are having the unintended consequence of pushing the Lukashenko regime closer to Russia, whose companies are eager to…
Nord Stream 2: Last-ditch opposition to nearly-completed pipeline intensifies
Inspectors analyze components of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Photo courtesy Nord Stream 2 Corp./Twitter. In March and early April, when Polish ships ventured into the restricted pipelaying zone for…