Friday #skvotes Links
While advance voting continues to shatter Saskatchewan’s previous records, there’s plenty of new information for people still making their decision. – Julia Peterson reports on Elections Saskatchewan’s warning that the…
Racism
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Agustin Carstens discusses the need for our recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to include meaningful planning for the economy to come, not only…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lauren Pelley discusses the importance of making it a habit to weak a mask to protect against the spread of COVID-19. And David…
Manners? Civility? What happened to them?
In his book, Walden, in fact in the very first chapter, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I would offer that today — at least…
Alberta RCMP Protecting Racists
#ACAB Mounties saying they're protecting hate speech and violent racists because those voices matter as much as anyone else. That's a load of BS. https://t.co/WzsTMKYaGj — Saskboy says #BlackLivesMatter (@saskboy)…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin offer an introduction to what they anticipate will be the Turbulent Twenties, while noting the need for the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Christopher Lange studies (PDF) the costs and effects of two dental care options, and concludes Canada would be best served with…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Lance Taylor summarizes his new book documenting how and why U.S. inequality has ballooned over the past few decades. And Heather Scoffield writes…
Today Scholars go on Strike to Bring Attention to Racial Injustices
The recent strike by NBA and WNBA players has shown that reactionary and direct labour action can make meaningful change beyond just the workplace. In the WNBA & NBA, the…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – Gregory Beatty discusses the class struggle as it’s playing out in the time of COVID. Jim Stanford offers a reminder as to…
Covid Journal, Sept 2, 2020
A New Brunswick outbreak of Covid has people looking for someone to point their finger at. And ruin. Doug Ford’s power grab. Other stories.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud point out the importance of thinking ahead and being strategic in determining what activities are permitted…
George Randolph is a good man
I know him, and I believe he is. Big heart, big brain, big dreams. Human. Here’s his full essay in Medium. Worth a read, and worth a follow. Excerpt: During…
Everything isn’t racism
When RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was asked if her force was systemically racist, she replied that she believed unconscious bias existed in the force but struggled with systemic racism. How…
On disproportional representation
Yes, it’s bad enough that fully 10% of the election candidates for the Saskatchewan Party have impaired driving convictions – including the Premier, and one individual who was convicted based…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Gilmore wonders whether we’ll use the lessons of COVID-19 to set up our own “tsunami stones” to prevent future crises. But Tom…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald notes that the federal government’s investments in the wake of COVID-19 have been necessary to keep intolerable burdens off of people…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis writes about the emptiness of any discussion of energy options which doesn’t account for the importance of averting a climate breakdown.…
Utterly, Despicably Shameful
I’m not entirely sure why these things bother me so much, but I suspect it has a lot to do with my hope and expectation that Canadians are better than…
Thatcher brouhaha: When your slippery opponent’s on the ropes, maybe you should focus on keeping him there!
When you’ve got a slippery political opponent on the ropes with a completely legitimate issue, what’s it profit a New Democrat to stand up in the Legislature and create a…