Deep thought
Sure, on the surface one might expect refugee claimants to be displeased to be deported and subsequently killed based on Justin Trudeau’s decision to outsource their assessments to the Trump…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted material to end your week. – Nick Falvo writes that artificially low taxes at the expense of Saskatchewan’s well-being are nothing to brag about: (T)axes can help finance important…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot contrasts the message of neoliberalism as freedom against the reality that it imposes severe corporate control on anybody short of the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Josh Bornstein writes that in Australia like elsewhere, the combination of increasing corporate profits, stagnant wages and resulting inequality can be traced to…
Refugees Who Helped Snowden Welcomed to Canada
One of the families who helped American whistleblower Edward Snowden stay safe while he was in Hong Kong have arrived in Canada. Snowden provided proof to the world that the…
Andrew Scheer’s Weird and Evil Parallel Universe
Like many people in this country, I couldn't believe it when I saw Andrew Scheer cheerfully proclaim that Justin Trudeau was more divisive than he was.I was stunned that Scheer…
Maxime Bernier Opens the Diversity Debate
What lunacy is this? Maxime Bernier’s twitter rant condemning Justin Trudeau’s “extreme multiculturalism” policies ended with Bernier exiting stage (far) right, Andrew Scheer promising to fight asylum seekers who jump…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey points out the massive amounts of money being directed toward stock buybacks in the U.S., with the predictable effect of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Bruenig points out that public ownership of businesses produces a number of beneficial incidental effects, including by ensuring that knowledge and…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Brett Scott pulls back the curtain on the cashless society, and notes that it (like so many “financial innovations”) is largely the result…
New column day
Here, on the need for Canada’s immigration policy to actually respect the human dignity of refugees and asylum seekers – contrary to both the rhetoric of the Cons and the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stuart Heritage argues that a shared sense of morality is our best hope of ensuring that narcissism isn’t rewarded. And Paul Gleason…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andray Domise discusses both the U.S.’ choice to be an intentionally safe destination for refugees, and Canada’s complicity in validating that choice and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michal Rozworski writes that the bidding war surrounding Amazon’s second headquarters is just a symptom of a grossly dysfunctional relationship between governments and…
Re-thinking refugee protection: focusing on people and safe passage
Efforts in Canada to provide safe passage to asylum seekers crossing into Canada from the United States prove that people power and civil society action can change public policy and…
Now is the time for Canada to walk away from the Safe Third Country Agreement
It’s disingenuous for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to publicly claim that Canada is safe for asylum claimants while the Bush-era Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) prevents refugees coming from…
The Ugly Confusion of Michelle Rempel
You don't see or hear much about Michelle Rempel these days. Once she was a rising star in the Harper Party, and a legend in her own mind. But then…
The Ugly Confusion of Michelle Rempel
You don't see or hear much about Michelle Rempel these days. Once she was a rising star in the Harper Party, and a legend in her own mind. But then…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC reports on Nav Persaud’s research showing how universal prescription drug coverage could produce improved health outcomes for a lower cost. But Scott…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC reports on Nav Persaud’s research showing how universal prescription drug coverage could produce improved health outcomes for a lower cost. But Scott…