Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Max Fawcett writes about Jason Kenney’s reckless wager of countless lives in the unlikely hope that a Stampede can save his political…
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Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Leyland Cecco discusses how a combination of feckless government and decades of carefully-stoked anti-science sentiment has turned Alberta into North America’s COVID-19…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Ling writes that the third wave of COVID currently swamping conservative-run provinces can be traced back directly to our leaders’ refusal to…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Hemingway writes about the massive concentration of wealth among the richest few Canadians while most people have struggled through the pandemic. And…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Toby Sanger points out how Canada could gain tens of billions of dollars annually by working with Joe Biden to apply a global…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Anya Zoledziowski discusses how we’re only facing a third wave of COVID-19 due to avoidable political choices, while the Globe and Mail’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis examines how Canada can and should learn from Australia’s success in controlling the coronavirus, while Robert Danich writes that conservative…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones points out how attempts to primarily blame the public for the spread of COVID serve primarily to distract from unsafe workplace…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig discusses how the calamitous effect of COVID-19 shows the dangers of putting care in the hands of the corporate sector. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda Silas writes about the need to invest in improved care and better jobs in order to build a health society. And…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Steven Greenhouse writes that COVID-19 may produce a wave of unionization as workers see how little they’re valued, and how cavalierly they lives…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Metta discusses how low-income workers have been barely treading water for decades even before the coronavirus collapse. The Canadian Centre for Policy…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the Libs’ choice to use infrastructure programs primarily to generate massive returns for private investors, rather than ensuring…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lee Stevens writes that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed longstanding weaknesses in our social safety net which have caused large amounts of avoidable…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig writes about the policies which were needed to sustain us through the COVID-19 crisis so far – but whose success can…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linda McQuaig warns us not to tolerate yet another around of austerian demagoguery when investment in people’s well-being is a positive step toward…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – John Nichols writes about Pramila Jayapal’s recognition that mass unemployment is a policy choice – and her plan for wage supports to make…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brendan Kennedy discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be the last straw for far too many workers already facing precarious finances.…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out that what normally gets claimed as a higher life expectancy arising out of capitalism in fact consists of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michael Enright interviews Linda McQuaig about the loss of public resources to privatization – even in the face of popular opinion: People…