Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In the wake of GM’s abandonment of Oshawa, David Olive suggests that it’s time for Canada to work on developing its own signature…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robinson Meyer rightly criticizes the Trump administration for trying to bury a devastating national climate assessment on Black Friday. – David Leonhardt discusses…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports that the Ford government’s move to strip sick days away from workers was made without any attempt to consider the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Garner comments on the need to acknowledge the humanity of people living in poverty – which leads to the inescapable need to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Kibasi writes that the UK’s best option in light of its impending Brexit is to develop a more active and entrepreneurial…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wade Davis comments on the ecological amnesia which has resulted in repeated cycles of extinctions: In three generations, a mere moment in…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones writes that a four-day work week being developed by UK Labour could represent an important step toward genuine personal freedom: (I)t…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Roger Eatwell writes that the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment can be traced back largely to the sense that elite-dominated governments have failed to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz comment that the new climate denial involves denying that any solutions are possible. Blake Shaffer points out that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that stagnating and even declining life expectancies and nother indications of declining social health are the result…
The Google Walkout
Photo by Shawn Collins Thousands of Google employees throughout the United States and around the world walked off their jobs on November 1, “to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Peter Gowan discusses UK Labour’s plans for a more democratic and participatory economy. And Alex Ballingall reports on Jagmeet Singh’s plan to prohibit…
Ford Takes on Bill 148: But There is Resistance
Photo by Fight for $15 When the Tories were elected to govern Ontario this past June, it was a day that many were both dreading and expecting. The Ontario government…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mark Kaufman puts our continually-rising greenhouse gas emissions in historical context, with atmospheric concentrations exceeding what they’ve been in the previous 15 million…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Jackson argues that Canada has nothing to gain in trying to race Donald Trump to the bottom when it comes to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Gavin Kelly writes that the UK’s welfare state has been shaped by the Cons to prevent working households from being able to aspire…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rupert Neate reports on new research showing that the world’s billionaires saw their wealth increase by 20% in 2017 alone. – Pete Evans…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Campbell Robb laments the persistence of in-work poverty in the UK – though it’s of course worth noting the reality that poverty…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Levitz discusses the glaring gap between Americans’ policy preferences, and the outcomes from a political system which falls far short of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Thom Hartmann writes about the billionaire-funded push toward outright fascism in the U.S. as a response to the growth of the middle class…