Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joshua Schiffer highlights how the best response to COVID-19 for now involves the use of imperfect but easily-applied means of reducing its spread,…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee examines the folly of the B.C. Libs’ plan to slash the province’s PST rather than investing in any recovery. And…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Brethour discusses houw the effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been anything but fairly or equally distributed. And Katherine Scott highlights…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Andrej Markovcic discusses how the pursuit of profit above all else has contributed to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effects on…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the connection between air pollution and more severe death rates caused by the coronavirus. Clyde Russell writes that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes about the interconnected economic, democratic and environmental crises facing the UK – and the opportunity voters have to address…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Roberts writes about the developing recognition that we all bear responsibility for consumption emissions – though even better would be a…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Farhana Yamin discusses the need to answer the imminent threat of climate breakdown with direct action to force politicians to develop an…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Murray highlights what climate protests have accomplished so far, while emphasizing the need to turn activism into policy change over the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Jackson presents a new Ipsos survey showing that the majority of American workers face stress issues at work. And Arthur White-Crumley…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonathan Watts interviews David Wallace-Wells about the existential threat posed by climate breakdown – and our gross failure to act in the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chris Hedges points out how the obscenely rich few are trying to distract from their accumulation of wealth in order to avoid…
Tuesday Morning LInks
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Wilt examines how Canada lets the corporate sector get away with paying far less than a fair price for our natural…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martin Regg Cohn writes that reducing access to pharmacare is just the first item on Doug Ford’s extensive hidden agenda. And Steve Morgan…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew O’Hehir talks to Yanis Varoufakis about the impossibility of building shared prosperity on a foundation of consumer debt and financialization. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Louis Uchitelle discusses how the decline of organized labour in the U.S. has harmed not just workers’ direct interests, but the economic…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Owen Jones discusses the need for wealth taxes as part of any plan to meaningfully reduce economic inequality: Much is made of income…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Council of Canadians sets out the key numbers in the Libs’ all-talk, no-action federal budget, while David Macdonald highlights its ultimate lack…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kenneth Rogoff writes about the dangers of presuming that economic growth (at least in stock markets if not wages) can withstand political upheaval.…