Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Doug Saunders writes that Europe’s devastating new wave of COVID – like those elsewhere – can be traced directly to politicians pandering…
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Our Council’s Reprehensible Greed
Our council’s sense of entitlement again came to light this week. A report from a consultant tabled in the Nov.1 meeting of the Strategic Initiatives Standing Committee recommends that the…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Karl Nerenberg notes that taxes on the wealthy represent an excellent starting point in ensuring that it’s possible to pass progressive policy in…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board recognizes that any responsible government would be continuing to apply public health rules to prevent a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Paling discusses the reasons why repeated warnings about Canada’s third wave of the coronavirus went largely unanswered. And Rachel Bergen reports on…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses how the pandemic response across far too much of Canada has been (increasingly) marked by political calculation and triangulation…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – John Michael McGrath discusses how Ontario (like so many other jurisdictions) has walked directly into a third wave, resulting in people dying for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou discuss their new polling showing that Canadians are particularly concerned with climate change and good jobs as…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s mealy-mouthed messaging around the coronavirus looks to be a calculated political choice which is having…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Laura Spinney writes about the debate as to whether to eliminate COVID-19 or control its continued spread. And Carl Zimmer reports on…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Himelfarb writes about the need to get past obsessing over deficits and taxes when they’re necessary to fund a the society…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Dolan reports on new research showing the connection between a sense of entitlement and a refusal to take basic steps to protect…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Antoine Genest-Grégoire, Luc Godbout and Jean-Herman Guay highlight how people are willing to pay more in taxes if they see the benefit to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu and Lindsey McKay make the case for a parental leave system which improves accessibility and wage replacement rates to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque warns that we may be approaching the point where the cost of fighting man-made threats to our environment exceeds the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mariana Mazzucato offers her take as to how to set our economy onto a positive course in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Giles reports that even the IMF is warning governments not to engage in avoidable austerity. And Richard Kozul-Wright and Nelson Barbosa write…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Yglesias discusses how the Republicans avoid having to answer for antisocial plans (such as wanting to limit access to health insurance…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alisha Haridasani Gupta discusses why so many women have been excluded from the workforce during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. And Kathryn…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Marc Lee examines the folly of the B.C. Libs’ plan to slash the province’s PST rather than investing in any recovery. And…