Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Carly Weeks reports on the work being done to begin to understand and treat long COVID, while Erika Edwards reports on the profiteers…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ben Cohen writes that we shouldn’t take a negative rapid test as license to stop taking every possible precaution to limit community…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amativa Banerjee writes about the cognitive dissonance involved in living through the COVID-19 pandemic. And Ian Sample reports on scientists’ recognition that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryan Eneas reports on the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near a single residential school in Saskatchewan. And Samantha Beattie reports on…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Guyton, Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch and Gabriel Zucman examine (PDF) the massive amounts of money which people at the very…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christo Aivalis rightly points out that the NDP needs to be a party of labour and fight to ensure workers’ needs are…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford examines how a national child-care program would boost Canada’s post-COVID recovery and rebuilding. And Michael Roberts points out the value of…
On missed opportunities
There has been plenty of commentary and analysis about the results of Saskatchewan’s provincial election – including some discussion on the theme of an overly risk-averse NDP campaign. But I’ll…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Resource Movement offers a handy primer on wealth taxes (and the value of applying them). – Jean-Benoit Legault reports on new research showing…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Patrick Brethour, Caroline Alphonso and Dave McGinn write about the no-win situation facing parents being pushed back to work by governments who…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz highlights how investing in the green economy provides a viable economic and ecological path forward in recovering from the coronavirus…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sheila Block highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the profits accruing to the wealthy few while putting added pressure on…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur and James Downar warn us against mistaking a temporarily flattened curve for a final victory over the spread…
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 Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford writes about the need for a new Marshall Plan to rebuild once we’ve won the fight against COVID-19: For many…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Grace Blakeley points out the importance of putting our relief and recovery funding toward public investments, rather than the further enrichment of people…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Anton Jager and Steven Klein discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a particularly strong clash in rhetoric between people advocating…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the fallout from the ideology of constant privatization – and a precedent from Canada’s past as to how…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz writes about the dangers of measuring economic and social progress solely in terms of GDP: It is clear that something…