Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Chris Hatch discusses the glaring contradictions between Canada’s lip service to the fight against climate change, and its actions in pushing to expand…
Fossil Fuels
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes that contrary to the dogma of budget scolds, the truly reckless course of action is to fail to invest…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Olivia Bowden reports on new research showing that the harmful health effects of air pollution are even worse than previously known. – But…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Guy Dauncey makes the case that it’s entirely possible – even if daunting – to meet the challenge posed by the climate…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sabrina Shankman discusses new research showing how the climate crisis will affect today’s youth. And Bill McKibben highlights why we can’t afford to…
On choice giveaways
There’s been plenty worth criticizing about Scott Moe’s combination of laughable demands of the federal government and refusal to take responsibility for anything his government is doing at home. But…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board writes that Canada needs to do its part to avert as much of the impending climate…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – PressProgress highlights the latest example of the obscene concentration of wealth in Canada, as a mere 45 people own more than the GDP…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rylan Higgins argues that it’s long past time to move beyond a boom-and-bust oilpatch economy. And Ryan Meili writes that workers and residents…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Stephen Mihm writes that among other positive outcomes, wealth taxes and other progressive tax options reliably produce a boost in life satisfaction for…
New column day
Here, on the problems with the Saskatchewan Party’s mismanagement which deserve far more attention than Scott Moe’s attempts to pick fights with the federal government for show – including the…
Can Trudeau Make a Future with Alberta?
Life is full of little surprises. Often pleasant ones. I encountered such a surprise this week reading the Calgary Herald, not a paper usually on my wave length. And yet…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alexandra Zannis discusses the need to treat the end of poverty as a core policy goal. Peter Gilmer highlights how voters motivated by…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joao Medeiros writes about Mariana Mazzucato’s push to have governments use collective wealth and power for the common good. – Matt Elliott…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Scott Schmidt highlights how the wealthy have seized any gains in economic growth over a period of decades. Michael Hobbes discusses the “glass…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Moscrop writes that the Libs’ choice to break the promise of electoral reform to instead lock in an unfair and unrepresentative…
Scapegoating the oil industry
I always admired that great philosopher Pogo. I still remember the picture of he and a friend looking out over their polluted swamp as he uttered those immortal words, “We…
Sometimes There Really Is A Conspiracy
Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell: names that are familiar to almost all of us. What we might be less familiar with is both the role they and about 16 other…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins interviews Eugene McCarraher about the cultivation of capitalist greed as a new religion. And Annie Lowrey writes about the value of…