Monday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our…
Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our…
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Dr. Dawg highlights the fact that a shift toward private charity doesn’t do anything to escape the Cons’ politicization of public services, as…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emily Dee takes a first look at what may be a highly important story about the Cons’ use of the notorious right-wing…
Miscellaneous material for your afternoon reading. – Stephen Maher exhorts the Cons to stop stifling democratic debate, featuring a strong point by NDP MP Jack Harris: When Harris was first…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom suggests that the systematic eviction of Occupy camps from Canadian cities may only help the movement to evolve from its…
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Jeffrey Sachs muses that the Occupy movement may just be the beginning of a sea change in American politics:Both parties have joined in crippling…
Last weekend, I spoke on a panel at the Annual Conference of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. The panel was inspired in large part by the recent debate in Toronto…
After the previous day's relatively non-partisan and specific focus, October 5 saw a return to broad debate on the economy - thanks to both a day of debate on the…
Regional planning in Alberta since 1993, pretty much exactly as illustrated. Below: A rare photo of Ralph Klein and Steve West, grabbed from the Internet. “Limits to growth on horizon,”…
AUPE President Guy Smith with some of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators who gathered at the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon to protest against privatization talk by Premier Alison Redford. Below: Former…
Gulf Islands bi-weekly newspaper Island Tides promises an eclectic mix of local, regional, national and international topics — serious and light-hearted — to give readers a "relaxed, informed 'West Coast'…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Frances Russell comments on how the Cons' war mentality is leading them to shut down any inconvenient opposition using unprecedented procedural tricks:Prime Minister Stephen…
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Erin compares the stimulative effects of Ontario's election platforms:A multiplier is the amount by which a dollar of budgetary outlay increases Gross Domestic Product…
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Armine Yalnizyan highlights the fact that while the Cons fight for ever more inequality, even business groups are noting the risks of that direction:…
Here, on the lack of any connection between the Saskatchewan Party's choice of industries and projects and the state of Saskatchewan's economy.For further reading...- I've dealt with most of the…