Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rebecca Leber highlights how drilling in the Arctic and other high-cost fossil fuel extraction plans are based on a sociopathic bet against any…
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Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Angela Stewart interviews Malgorzata Gasperowicz about the potential for Alberta to eradicate COVID-19 with a seven-week shutdown, rather than letting new and more…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michael Orsini challenges the use of “resilience” as an excuse to neglect government choices and make individuals responsible for social failings: The…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Doherty, and Eric Galbraith and Ross Otto, respectively write that the response to the coronavirus shows how it’s possible to imagine…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Woolley points out how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing the effects of decades of austerity on Canada’s health care system. Martin…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tom Parkin talks to Toby Sanger about the utter failure of corporate tax cuts to produce anything other than concentrated wealth and increased…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Martin Regg Cohn discusses how workers are bearing the brunt of Doug Ford’s budget. Joe Light offers a reminder that Donald Trump’s populist…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that Canada’s federal government should look at buying the soon-to-be-vacated GM plant in Oshawa to begin production of electric vehicles.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joe Pinsker offers a reminder that the wealthiest individuals are primarily concerned with positional rather than absolute gains – meaning that nothing useful…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews Christo Aivalis’ The Constant Liberal, and discusses how Justin Trudeau is continuing a family tradition of betraying progressive voters:…
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…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Kate Aronoff interviews Mariana Mazzucato about The Value of Everything, including some important discussion about the relationship between governments and markets: Aronoff:…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Finn offers a reminder that Canada’s social safety net is leading to the perpetuation of poverty despite ample resources to end it.…
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…
Rediscovering Democracy
Since I became eligible to vote many years ago, I have participated in every federal, provincial and municipal election that has been called. Even though it has become something of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice and Morna Ballantyne discuss how universal child care is a necessary element of any serious push toward equality for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Larry Elliott writes about the fragility of the political and economic structures which the world’s most privileged people are seeking to entrench…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nathaniel Lewis and Matt Bruenig discuss the relationship between massive inheritances and ongoing wealth inequality. Nick Hanauer makes the case for much…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that it’s long past time to review our tax system to make sure it isn’t unfairly leaking money to the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kevin McKean discusses how inequality undermines the goal of ensuring a healthy population. Matt Bruenig examines new data showing that the concentration…