Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Brumby writes about the multiple growing disruptions to economic health and security which could be addressed by a wealth tax. – Kim…
inequality
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Grace Blakeley comments on the connection between neoliberal ideology, and the replacement of even the possibility of collective action with an assumption…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon write about the tendency for people involved in deliberately-rigged contests to believe their success is the result of…
On privileged positions
It’s bad enough that Saskatchewan is governed by a party whose foundational principle is that a wealthy person’ vacation home is more important that your life. But it certainly takes…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald examines (PDF) the continued pay gap which sees CEOs rake in more money the morning of the first day of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – In the absence of any leadership from governments, a group of experts has put together a “Canadian Shield” strategy (PDF) to rein in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Don Braid calls out Jason Kenney for allowing his government’s MLAs and officials to gallivant around the world on vacation while demanding…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your year. – Shawn Micallef highlights how the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the refusal by far too many people to follow a social contract – including…
Happy New Years
Community My New Years Resolution for our society is to no longer worship at the twin altars of individualism and technology but rather to embrace the saviour of community. From…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith examines how even leaving aside such trifling considerations as human welfare, it’s a better economic proposition to provide money to people…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emma Ladds, Alex Rushforth, Sietse Wieringa, Sharon Taylor, Clare Rayner, Laiba Husain and Trisha Greenhalgh study the wade-ranging and severe symptoms resulting…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Owen Jones writes that the oft-repeated message that the public is responsible for the control (or spread) of COVID-19 serves mostly to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Luke Savage weighs in on the false promise of tax giveaways to the rich as an economic strategy for anybody else. –…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Hope and Julian Limberg study (PDF) the effects of tax cuts for the rich – concluding that they lead to worsened…
On preferential treatment
Chris Selley’s thread trying to justify a fully effective anti-COVID strategy does manage to make an extremely strong statement. But it’s not the one he means to – and it…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson summarizes and discusses Lance Taylor and Ozlem Omer‘s new book showing how the combination of wage suppression and growing inequality…
the recession’s likely long-term impact on homelessness
I’ve just written a report for Employment and Social Development Canada on the current recession’s likely long-term impact on homelessness in Canada. An overview of the report can be found…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Miller writes that it’s more important than ever to protect frontline workers as the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine approaches. Pat…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elaine Godfrey writes about Iowa’s disastrous COVID-19 spread as a prime example of what happens when a government chooses to do nothing about…