Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jan-Werner Muller discusses Pete Hegseth's development of a nihilistic death cult. Dave Levitin comments on the connection between the elite choice to keep…
Health Care
UCP: We’re making a historic investment in finding doctors! Physicians: Say what? First we heard about it!
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government hasn’t quite taken to posting unexpected proclamations in ALL CAPS on Truth Social at 2 a.m., but Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement yesterday that Thursday’s budget…
Homelessness among 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals
Chapter 11 of my open access textbook has just been released. This chapter focuses on homelessness experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. A ‘top 10’ summary of the new chapter can be…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Will Snell points out the connection between extreme wealth and unconscionable impunity as epitomized by Jeffrey Epstein and his elite co-conspirators. And Joan Wallach…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Seybold writes about the message sent at Davos that AI will be forced on people regardless of whether they want it (or whether…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
Thanks to the UCP, Alberta measles epidemic is back in the news, along with Alberta’s chaotic packed hospitals
Turns out having a governing party dominated by MAGA-influenced anti-vaxxers and ideological privatizers like Premier Danielle Smith isn’t actually good for health care! Who could have seen that coming? Alberta’s…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- David Suzuki writes about the desperate need to loosen the grip a few megalomaniacal billionaires have over political and economic decision-making. And Matt McManus'…
On Reforming Capitalism
These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- G. Elliott Morris examines what voters want out of a political party independent of the platforms being presented to them - and finds…
Danielle Smith has a plan: Alberta will destroy health care in order to save it!
Apparently, Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party have decided they’re going to have to destroy health care in order to save it. That’s about the most positive spin that…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Connie Loizos warns that the growth of "buy now, pay later" financing for the essentials of life parallels the wider use of unsustainable debt…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada is failing the basic test of resistance to a fascist regime. - Meanwhile, Linda McQuaig recognizes that Canadians…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Owen Jones discusses how the new outbreak of war-mongering toward Iran is indistinguishable - both in its insistence and its utter lack of connection…
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t have a coherent plan for running public health care yet, but yesterday she revealed that, just like her hero Donald J. Trump, she has a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt discuss how the Trump regime has used the power of an authoritarian state to impose costs…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford offers a reminder of the problems with treating raw GDP as a proxy for well-being or social development. Dario Radley highlights…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adrienne Lafrance discusses how the clock is ticking - but not quite yet run out - to check Donald Trump's assertion of absolute…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Gil Duran examines the false claim of an "emergency" underlying Donald Trump's tariff manipulations - along with the dangers of allowing a dictator…