Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Judd Legum discusses how Donald Trump's corruption includes such blatant market manipulation as buying stocks then using speeches to promote the companies involved. -…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Krugman writes that the U.S. is now the world's foremost petrostate - with disastrous results for it and for the world at…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Adam King discusses several new studies showing that wealth inequality is only continuing to balloon in Canada. And Jared Walker and Silas Xuereb rightly…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler comments on the Trump regime's absolute lack of distinction between war and politics, and what that means for any hope of…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Bruce Boccardy writes about the continued centrality of class struggle. Melissa Ryan comments on the realities that "Epstein class" is by far the most…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Adam Serwer points out the glaring contrast between real accountability for bad actors in other countries, and the U.S.' culture of absolute elite…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Lurie is rightly appalled by the Trump regime's nihilism, combining insatiable greed for whatever it can seize with a willingness to destroy…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Zoe Williams writes that Donald Trump is just the most egregious and unrestrained example of the vice-signalling which has become standard operating procedure among…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Cathy Young and Cas Mudde each discuss how the Trump regime's "national security strategy" is based on pushing cronyism and bigotry over democracy and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich talks about the glaring gap between the wealthy elite who are being catered to by the U.S.' economy and the many…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- The UN sets out Antonio Guterres' New Year's message calling for us to divert course from the road to climate ruin. Hannah Osborne examines…
Keep the genie stuck in the bottle
If the feds disclose evidence at a future trial that indicates provincial neglect and dereliction in pursuing crimes associated with gambling, what happens to public trust and support for both…
If This Isn’t An Indication Of Moral Bankruptcy And Depravity
…please tell me the term you would use. It seems that provinces are alarmed by the fact that millennials and the precariat are not so keen to throw away their…
New column day
Here, starting from Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald’s study to discuss on how people have trouble telling the difference between luck and merit (particularly when they’re enjoying the benefit of…
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s casino sell-off gambit might provoke a needed discussion of Saskatchewan’s relationship with First Nations – even while highlighting that Wall himself isn’t up for the…
Deep thought
I’ve written before about the dangers of government by manufactured crisis – which is all too familiar under the Harper Cons and the Wall Sask Party alike. But in light…
Wildrose rink lotto scheme: a new tax on the prodigal and the poor
Imagine the millions we can scoop up from the foolish and the intoxicated! Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith extemporizes on the advantages of using gambling to subsidize billionaires. Below: Drugstore and…
The Hidden Costs of Gambling
Let’s start 2013 with a sober consideration of the social and economic costs of gambling. Back n 2006, the Canadian Medical Association noted that, “Provincial governments may be glossing over…