Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Alex Morrison reports on the call from climate experts for immediate action to avoid careening past imminent climate tipping points. BNE reports on the…
Housing
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Kelsey Ables reports on the latest Oxfam study showing that the world's wealthiest few could end poverty dozens of times over by paying their…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott discuss how Canada's elite consensus toward the Trump regime has turned to one of deference (particularly for…
Now, that’s a relief!
Like moles, #DougFord pops up from the cool dark #tunnels.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich warns that the Trump regime's use of extreme military force to suppress peaceful protest is just the first step toward a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Anne Appelbaum discusses how the rise of authoritarian politics making elections around the world into existential crises - though it's worth highlighting the role…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Denny Carter discusses how Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez is the ultimate "kitchen table" campaigner - even as she's wrongly treated as being out-of-touch by people who…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Allison Gill offers a reminder that every aspect of the U.S.' descent into fascism can be traced back to the increasing power of an…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jon Milton et al. discuss how the first speech from the throne under Mark Carney was based on Donald Trump's wish list rather than…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Doug Cuthand offers a reminder that the need for forward-thinking climate action hasn't been reduced just because any discussion of the possibility has…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Mike Palecek discusses how the Trump regime's tariff chaos isn't aimed merely at conducting trade wars against other countries, but also serves to destabilize…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Bill McKibben rightly describes the Trump regime's attacks on the entire federal regulatory apparatus as vandalism with a plan (which includes making things more…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Natalie Alms reports that Elon Musk's attempt to manufacture a fraud scandal at the Social Security Administration has failed miserably - except to the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump's absolute lack of inhibition is responsible for the disastrous effects of his regime - and how a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Sherrilyn Ifill examines how resistance to the Trump regime has developed and influenced events over the course of the first 100 days. But Peter…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tim Dickinson interviews Naomi Klein about the oligarchy's escalating war against the general public, while the Guardian's editorial board points out that warehouse…
The intersection of housing and homelessness
I recently delivered a full-day in-person workshop at CHRA’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held in Saskatoon. The workshop was titled “The intersection of housing and homelessness.” All course…
The Liberal Housing Plan
Canadians will vote in a general election on April 28. Here’s my ‘top 7’ overview of the Liberal Housing Plan: https://nickfalvo.ca/the-liberal-housing-plan/.
Priorities
A couple of election promises caught my attention. Perhaps these define different priorities established by politicians who aim to lead Canada's federal government for the years ahead. Maybe some of…