Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Alejandra Gomez and Greisa Martinez Rosas offer a reminder that Donald Trump's attempt to pit immigrants against other workers serves only to distract from…
Privatization
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Canada is currently failing to carry out any energy transition, as any expanded use of renewables is only being added…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Linda McQuaig writes about Catherine McKenna's rare (if belated) honesty about the extent to which Canadian policy is dictated by fossil fuel tycoons. And…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Will Hutton discusses how the growing gap between the rich and everybody else is eating away at Britain's collective well-being, while Phillip Inman…
beware the common sense con
When politicians offer up “common sense” solutions beware. Politicians will often tell us that what they stand for is precisely what regular folk, “ordinary hard-working taxpayers” want and believe. As…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tarique Niazi discusses some of the geopolitical implications of the intensifying climate crisis. Aaron Whetty offers a reminder that the joint effort by…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Steve Hanley discusses how a climate breakdown would result in the destruction of any other social and political goals which might otherwise be achieved.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Climenhaga writes that nobody should be surprised by Danielle Smith's determination to privatize Alberta's health system - though her explicit declaration that she…
Possibly the biggest rollback of public health insurance in Canadian history gets underway in Alberta with barely a peep of protest
With the creation of the Recovery Alberta agency and the plan to farm out of all addiction recovery treatment programs to a small group of out-of-province private operators with a…
How The UCP Is Lining Up To Steal Your Healthcare (and Rights)
Things are beginning to line up in terms of the UCP's plan and we can see now how they are going to attack health care and Albertans. There's quite a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ayesha Tandon discusses a new study showing that the limiting factor in averting a climate breakdown is public policy rather than technological limitations. Aaron…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Ian Urquhart writes that while it's well and good to insist that the oil and gas industry stop attempting to greenwash its contribution to…
Simplistic solutions for complex problems — they seldom work
BC Conservatives left a flyer at my door promoting their candidate in a North Vancouver constituency. Were the BC Conservatives to form government, British Columbia would be far different. Not…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Matt Simon discusses the continued escalation of global temperatures to record highs (which only figure to be exceeded in the years to come).…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Watts discusses the strong argument to treat climate hypocrites primarily as destructive petrostates rather than honest actors in trying to address the…
Connecting The Dots
Were we abundantly blessed with critical-thinking skills, we would have no problem asking some serious questions about the direction in which Ontario is headed with Doug Ford at the helm.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Irfan discusses the possibility that carbon pollution may have reached its peak in 2023 – while recognizing that even if that…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rachel Fairbank discusses how a patient-led research collaborative is filling in the gaps in long COVID research and treatment. – Re.Climate examines…