LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:****************************** –WhenThursday, December 8, 2011Time5:00pm until 8:00pmWhereJames W. Burns Executive Education Centre , 177 Lombard Ave (2nd floor), Winnipeg, ManitobaDescriptionhttp://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=712&too=200&eve=8&dat=12%2F8%2F2011&epa=52596Reception:Refreshments and hors…
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading. – Rachel Mendleson reports on research showing that inequality is correlated to mortality rates within a particular city – with the sole exception of…
Rabble.ca is running a series of reflections on the tenth anniversary of the New Politics Initiative, which sought to create a more democratic politics in Canada ideally as part of…
Assorted content for your evening reading. – Mitchell Anderson wonders whether weeding out corporate psychopathy might be the key to a more equal and sustainable economy. – But judging from…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Russell wonders what happened to the concept of the public good: Our political language about taxes has changed. Gone is “ability…
The IMF find that rising inequality is a key driving force behind balance of payments problems and domestic instability in developed countries. “what unites the experiences of the main deficit…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out how the Occupy movement has at least started to shift the terms of our political debate: Rather than…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom rightly points out that the voters most affected by the Cons’ push for privatized pensions are the ones paying the least…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Marc Lee presents an alternative economic vision to the capital-first-and-only approach that currently serves as conventional wisdom. – Meanwhile, Andrew Jackson suggests five…
Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – pogge rightly questions the Cons’ continued efforts to have decisions made by ministerial fiat rather than through public debate. – Glen McGregor eviscerates…
Assorted content to end your week. – Charlie Angus’ concerns about the Cons’ Albany Club schmoozing nicely parallel my take on the entire lobbying apparatus they’ve built up: Mr. Angus…
CCPA released a new report today by myself and Amanda Card that makes the links between inequality and carbon footprints. We look at the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions for…
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Jeffrey Sachs muses that the Occupy movement may just be the beginning of a sea change in American politics:Both parties have joined in crippling…
Friday, October 21 saw another day of debate focused largely on the Cons' anti-consumer copyright legislation.The Big IssueOnce again, copyright was the largest issue, with Tyrone Benskin summing up what's…
This and that for your evening reading.- Erin offers up his suggestions for the Saskatchewan NDP's renewal process:The next NDP leader will presumably be met with a barrage of negative…
According to Salon's David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its…
Paul Krugman has pointed out, here and here that the meme that most of the inequality we have been experiencing of late has much to do with differences in educational…
(Originally Published on Occupy Ottawa website) The Occupy Ottawa Movement observed a moment of silence before its General Assembly last night to commemorate the death of Vancouver Occupier, Ashlie Gough.…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rick Salutin nicely describes what's behind the "charity" model of top-end wish fulfillment that the Cons are pitching in place of actual social programs:The…
Assorted content to end your week.- If there's any good news in the Cons' constant attacks on labour, it's the growing recognition that workers need to fight back with no…
