Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Campbell Robb laments the persistence of in-work poverty in the UK – though it’s of course worth noting the reality that poverty…
regulation
New column day
Here, discussing the Price of Oil collaborative’s latest report on how the Saskatchewan Party is requiring provincial regulators to keep the public at risk in order to avoid having oil…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Cribb, Patti Sonntag, Michael Wrobel, P.W. Elliott and Carolyn Jarvis examine the Saskatchewan Party government’s utter refusal to monitor or regulate pollution…
New column day
Here, on the corporate sellouts in the Libs’ new version of NAFTA – including a little-discussed chapter designed to turn anti-regulatory bias into official policy for an entire continent. For…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers a reminder (with reference to Lars Osberg’s new book) that extreme and growing inequality is a choice rather than…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Skidelsky warns that having failed to learn crucial lessons from a 2008 economic crash caused by a reckless financial sector exploiting…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Somini Sengupta writes that the extreme heat experienced so far in 2018 shows how ill-prepared humanity is for the climate change it’s…
Ontario Electricity Sector VI – Meet the new boss…
The provincial election of June ended 15 years of Liberal electricity policy in Ontario. Anger over high electricity prices continued to be an election issue, contributing to the Liberals loss…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Harry Leslie Smith reiterates his determination to make sure that new generations don’t face the poverty and deprivation that marked his childhood. And…
Ontario Electricity Sector V – What they knew, and when they knew it…
Last month I published a full-length article in the “The Monitor” magazine providing a “how we got here” analysis of the Ontario electricity sector and some options for the next…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laura Basu discusses the media’s role in accepting and perpetuating the corporatist ideology behind privatization campaigns: (R)esearch carried out by myself at…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Millhiser writes that the Republican majority on the U.S.’ Supreme Court is restoring the robber baron era: The conceit of Gorsuch’s…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Noah Smith writes that public resentment toward the U.S.’ wealthiest few is based on a genuine (and justified) concern about an economic system…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Boutilier discusses the glaring gap between hype and reality when it comes to tech sector jobs. And Virgina Eubanks writes about…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Terry Schwadron writes about Donald Trump’s war on the poor, while Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson highlight how U.S. businesses and their political…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sunil Johal and Armine Yalnizyan discuss the importance of building an economy based on a race to the top in labour and…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim O’Neill proposes an end to corporate free-riding (and an assurance of contribution to the society which allows for profit) through explicit “pay-or-play”…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Victor Cyr discusses the problems with a public policy focus on capitalism without any concern for human well-being. And Ann Pettifor highlights…
Let My People Grow!
In two recent announcements the Manitoba Government has revealed how it intends to regulate cannabis when it is legalized in July 2018. In short, the province will source and regulate…
Who will pay the cost for Digital Security? On the regulation of Uber and large digital companies
In 2006, when I came to Calgary, Identity Thief was something that we all heard about. While, I did not have RFID sleeves for my credit cards yet, I was…