Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Martin Papillon offers up some lessons for the NDP in Francois Hollande’s French presidential victory: Being ideological does not have to mean being…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yes, the individual examples are worrisome enough. But the real takeaway from Sarah Schmidt’s report on the CFIA’s testing of food products for…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – William Black suggests that we consider applying the “broken windows” theory to the financial sector – particularly since the signs of a severely…
Friday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Friday reading. – Jim Stanford points out that free trade hasn’t delivered any productivity gains as promised – and has in fact moved Canada further…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford highlights a trend of employers forcing work stoppages in order to force massive concessions out of their employees – and notes…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dan Leger comments on the combination of secrecy and control exerted by Stephen Harper over the entire federal government. And the “Harper…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford points out that when it comes to manufacturing, any talk of an “invisible hand” doing much for productivity is based purely…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Jim Stanford highlights the Cons' thoroughly imbalanced view of labour disputes by pointing out that their concern for the economy has been limited to…
Jim Stanford: Out of Equilibrium: The Implications of CETA
Out of Equilibriam from Jim Sadlemyer on Vimeo.
Never mind unions – let’s cast a little light on the darkest corporate corners!
Time to cast a little light in capitalism’s darkest corners? Below: Jim Stanford, Russ Hiebert.All the usual suspects clamouring for unions to be required by law to publicly reveal their…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Jim Stanford rightly says that it's long past time for the Occupy movement to refocus our economy in the wake of a free-market-induced crash…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government - but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren't…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Adam Radwanski warns that Ontario's voters can't afford to stay home from today's provincial election.- Jim Stanford calls out the Harper Cons and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- For those with a few months to kill between now and next March, now may be the time to direct a browser tab toward…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- I'll join the seemingly long list of commentators who wouldn't ever have expected to cite David Brooks, but can't avoid it based on his…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- John Crocker points out that the need for secure and sufficient pensions is only made all the more obvious by the abject failure of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Adam Radwanski points out how Stephen Harper's continuing Senate embarrassment figures to play into the NDP's hands:If Mr. Harper was looking to signal once…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The McGill Institute's Election Content Analysis includes plenty of interesting information on how this month's federal election was covered. But the most noteworthy point…