Time for trickle up?
When, in the 1980s, we embarked on our binge of free trade agreements, we were assured by their political and business promoters that they would benefit all of us. By…
free trade agreements
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bill McGuire discusses why anybody with an understanding of climate science is terrified of a living environment that’s careening out of control. Carbon…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alan Urban writes about the reality that establishment institutions are working on normalizing civilizational collapse – as well as the need to fight…
When Trump and the left agreed
A recent article in The New York Times took me back to the latter decades of the 20th century and the debates over free trade agreements. The 1988 federal election…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jingwei Li et al. offer an update on the current state of knowledge surrounding long COVID, including the need for far more…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Star’s editorial board writes that there’s still every reason to take precautions to avoid the spread of COVID-19, while Frances Ryan points…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jerry White discusses how the wealthiest few have continued to amass obscene riches in the first half of 2023 despite occasional rumblings…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martha Lincoln and Anne Sosin discuss the lack of sustained improvement in the social conditions which exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on new research showing that tens of millions of adults may already be facing long-term loss of smell and/or…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ryan Tumulty reports on Theresa Tam’s warning that Canada may be headed for another COVID wave this fall. CBC News reports on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Pam Belluck reports on a new study showing that people who weren’t initially hospitalized for COVID make up over three-quarters of the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Adam Miller highlights what we can do to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the winter to come. And Pratyush Dayal reports…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ian Sample and Peter Walker report on the Parliamentary inquiry which has found the UK’s response to COVID-19 to be one of…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Institut economique Molinari studies how COVID Zero strategies have not only kept populations healthier, but helped to preserve higher levels of…
On limiting partnerships
I haven’t spent much time discussing the smaller parties in Saskatchewan’s provincial election, and I don’t see much basis to think any of them will be in serious competition to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sylvia Fuller and Yue Qian weigh in on how working mothers are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic (and a policy…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anand Giridharadas writes that with Bernie Sanders in position to win the Democratic nomination for president, the U.S.’ election will answer the question…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Nichols interviews Bernie Sanders about the importance of resurrecting the principle of economic rights. Gallup examines how the American public is again…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell and Jay Shambaugh study how the U.S.’ labour movement has been ground down by corporate-controlled governments – and…